How to find number of Satellites in realtime on iPhone

[Palin]

Has anyone found an app that can find the number of satellites in realtime on the iPhone? I've tried GPS Plan, p_track and pxSat, but I can't seem to get any of them showing a realtime count of what's overhead to confirm with what my IOSD-II is showing me.

 

[Av8Chuck]

Not sure about this but I believe that iPhones use cells to augment GPS and don't rely on a large number of satellites.

 

[Palin]

I think you could be right there. Looks like there's no option to use an iphone, except with a dongle.

 

[Rotorfreek]

What are you hoping to learn from this? I'm not sure it can confirm your iOSD data, as you may not always have every sat locked in while flying?

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[Palin]

What are you hoping to learn from this? I'm not sure it can confirm your iOSD data, as you may not always have every sat locked in while flying?

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I'm not expecting to learn anything useful from it tbh. It's just a suggestion that EuroUSC made for our ops manual. Not sure it's a requirement, and I agree I don't think it will be that useful, as it's what the GPS unit on the hex thinks, that's important.

 

[Rotorfreek]

Indeed. The only use it have for it is if I am taking longer than normal to get a lock, or if I keep dropping my link then I use one to see if I have a cracked antenna (the ceramic patches used for gps crack very easily) or a low gps sky.

I use a Garmin cycling gps, it gives a diagram with the satellite numbers, locations and a few other details.

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