Assemble a Custom Flight Deck
fDeck lets pilots assemble a personal instrument panel instead of opening a single fixed display. The Choose Instrument flow offers HSI, VOR, ADF, compass, altitude, airspeed, groundspeed, chronometer, weather, and other aviation views, so a phone or tablet can be arranged around the task at hand. HSI presents heading and course deviation, while radio-navigation instruments turn a selected station into a practical bearing exercise.
Once the panel is arranged, a grid or stack layout keeps the most useful instruments visible together. Controls for orientation, heading reference, decluttering, and display choices help the panel fit a cockpit mount, simulator desk, or study session. The result is a flexible flight-deck workspace for scanning instruments, comparing indications, and building familiarity with navigation cues.
Practice Radio Navigation on the Moving Map
The aviation map connects the instrument panel to a visual picture of the flight area. Airports, radio-navigation aids, user stations, terrain, airspace overlays, and range rings can be combined with the moving aircraft position, giving learners a way to relate a heading or radial to a place on the map. Selecting a station makes it available for HSI, VOR, or ADF practice.
Map settings keep the display adaptable for different flights and screens. Users can choose North-up or heading-oriented presentation, adjust the map range, and follow a track line while moving. A selected navaid can be tuned, detuned, or created as a user station, making the map useful for radio-navigation drills, simulator sessions, and route familiarization.
Tune Weather, Traffic, and Flight Planning Tools
fDeck adds planning and situational tools around the core instruments. The worldwide aviation database helps users look up airports and navaids, while the flight planner organizes a route before a session. Weather views can provide conditions and forecasts, and live traffic features can add an ADS-B or TCAS-style picture when the required data service is available.
These tools are useful because they connect cockpit indications with decisions made before and during a flight. Pilots can study a route, inspect nearby stations, monitor changing conditions, and keep a more complete situational display without abandoning the instrument panel. Some advanced weather, traffic, database, or service functions may depend on Premium access or network availability.
Connect a Simulator or Review Flight Tracks
The app can work beside a simulator as well as on a real device. fDeck supports connections with X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator, allowing simulator data to drive the Android instruments for a more realistic home-training setup. A configurable grid or stack can sit next to a monitor, while the map and radio-navigation displays mirror the flight context.
After a session, track history can be exported in GPX or KML for review, sharing, or route records. Built-in tutorials provide a gentle starting point for unfamiliar instruments such as ADF, HSI, and VOR. That combination suits student pilots, instructors, simulator hobbyists, and general-aviation users who want repeatable practice with portable displays.
