Ballistic : The best looking iphone ballistics calculator
As the author of two books on iPhone software development published by the prestigious IT published O’Reilly you would expect any iPhone / iPod Touch application by Jonathan Zdziarski would be of high quality. He does not disappoint with his ballistics calculator simply named “Ballistic”.
Quite frankly there are to many features to list so I will summarize coolest ones:
- Ballistics Library with over 1500 bullets. No need to go online to find ballistic coefficients.
- Automatic weather conditions. It uses the GPS to find your location and look up weather conditions online.
- If mounted on a rifle it can automatically calculate the angle and adjust measurements accordingly.
- Range log (see screenshot below).
Range Log
Windage Charts
HUD Display (Field Tactical Edition)
Two versions are available. The Standard Edition (iTunes Store link) costs $7.99 and the Field Tactical Edition (iTunes store link) costs $9.99. The Field Tactical features an HUD designed to be use on iPhones that are mounted on the rifle.
More info about the app here.
Dangit! Is there anything like this for windows? I want to turn my Eee in to a ballistic calculator!
KP, I am sure there are. I also want to turn my eee into one. I am running linux.
Found this:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/misc/saballistics-1.3.2.tar.gz
Its ncurses based, so no fancy GUI, but it looks OK. Being on ibiblio there might be a packaged for it on the major distros. No listings for it in Ubuntu Ibex though.
I know more about software than I do about shooting, what can I read to learn what this application is telling me?
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+ballistics+calculator
Wow. That is almost enough for me to get an iPhone…
Almost.
FREE Point Blank Ballistics Software
http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/free-point-blank-ballistics-software/
Web base:
http://field.modernballistics.com/
http://nobal.webdiligence.ca/
Excel worksheet
http://www.jacksonrifles.com/files/pejsa%20ballistics.xls
jdun1911, thanks for that!
Will this work on an Itouch?
Roy, i think so, but some of the features such as automatic downloading of temperature, will not work without a wifi connection. you could still probably enter it manually.
iPhones are just the best, love the touch screen technology.
Thanks for the informative post.
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