Chapter 1: Introduction to EFIS App for iPad

EFIS App for iPad is the easiest, most cost-effective way to build a very high-quality home flight simulator. By transforming a regular iPad into an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) display, the application provides a means of building a very convincing glass cockpit in your home with minimal effort.

Here’s how it works:

Using EFIS App, an iPad (or two, or three, or four!) can be configured as one of a number of different EFIS displays. In the original release of the application, users can choose between a synthetic vision display, a wireframe view of the ground, and a steam gauge panel. Using the included PFD and MFD, a staggeringly powerful amount of information and control is available. This ranges from flight planning tools, to communications and navigation controls, to autopilots, to moving maps, to systems status displays.

EFIS App integrates seamlessly into a copy of X-Plane running on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine—setup consists of nothing more than telling your desktop/laptop copy of X-Plane where to find the EFIS App iPad.

To really put the application to use, you can attach your iPad(s) to an instrument panel you build from plywood in your home, mount a “normal”-quality projector on your ceiling, and connect your Mac or PC to the projector. You would then have a simulator with spectacular visuals projected in front of you, cool EFIS instruments on the panel, and the best flight model in the industry—a simulator that would rival professional ones costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

EFIS App for iPad will spark a revolution in homebuilt, no-hassle cockpits. What’s stopping you from being a part of it?