I just downloaded an app for my android cell phone called My Tracks its made by Google and its free. I tracks you path via gps, but the cool part is it graphs your speed and altitude against time and lays both graphs on the same time scale. I tried it while driving and it was right on with my speedometer, and as the car went uphill so did the altitude. I dont know how accurate the altitude was but the speedo was right on. The next time I go to the flying field you can bet I will have a hand full of different props and the phone will be mounted inside my plane.

I can see the insurence clame already

Just don't forget to reballance the plane.

Things to concider... Fire up your plane with the cell phone installed. While holding the plane, have someone call your phone and check for radio interference...

Big Brother is watching. The next app will read your mind and report you to the thought police.

It does sound cool, though. Good luck.

There have been a couple of GPS dataloggers out on the interweb, that cost quite a bit less than the Droid. These are essentially USB dongles that you can power with your receiver battery. You then pull the data off of the logger and can plot it in Google Earth.
Pretty fun stuff.
C
P.S. And of course, since you know your positions and when they were snapshotted, you can always get your speed between them.

Yeah and the thing of it is -they would charge YOU to install it into your phone.

beau0090_99- I don't know how much your phone was but I think they make some devices to do that for less than $100.00

I just downloaded this to my Blackberry Storm just because it sounded interesting. Cant wait to see what kind of cool stuff I could use it for, like keeping track of my teenagers whereabouts now that he just got his license...lol

Not to get too far off topic, but here in MA our governor has proposed putting a chip in everybody's car so that they can charge us a tax for the mileage we drive. You see, as our cars get too fuel-efficient, they lose income on the gas tax, so they want to start charging another tax for miles driven.

With this app, they could also charge us for miles that we walk. Kinda reminds me of a song...

I wouldn't walk 1000 miles if I was going to be taxed. Man if all these states did something liek that with autos we could take care of the nations deficit instead of it going into the hands of politicians/presidents full of promises and no actions.

What song is that, mclina ... BO-HICA ?????

CGr.

I was thinking "If you drive your car I'll tax the street. If you take a walk I'll tax your feet"

Samo-samo...

CGr

If I tried to put my worthless Blackberry in an airplane, it would probably make it go really slow then crash.

I couldn't get it to work on my Storm but I did download a couple other ones I found. Still will be interesting to try them out.

Cell phones and RC transmitters are two completely different technologies.

First thing that came to mind! LOL!!!

Even if the transmission from the phone does not interfere with the plane receiving a signal from the transmitter..........
Vibration from a gas or glow engine could cause issues with the phone.

Certainly! So, lets put one in your plane and send it up untested.

I would totally do it, then again I have insurance on my phone...lol

Cause I'm the taxman....

watch this vid all the way to the end. it shows a tracked google map similar to what you're talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUlcODfFCCA

That IDIOT was flying the airplane by watching the lap top screen!
He should be watching the airplane, not the lap top...
It's that sort of behaviour by *^$#%^@ [:@] like that that could cause problems for all of us some day.

Over here we are limited to 400'.Anything higher than that puts us in the GA aircraft space...

What a bunch of idiots

if the vibration effects cell phones please DO NOT put your cell phones on vibrate.

The vibrating my phone does is nothing like the vibration I see on model airplanes. I do not know if the phone would be affected. I know a replacement phone, if my current one got damaged, costs enough that I wouldn't risk putting it in a model airplane.