About the Power Wheel App

As a pilot, you want to treat your engine well. It's one of the most valuable parts of your plane and you want it to last. Together with our friends at Advanced Pilot Seminars, we've taken the hard-to-read cruise power setting tables and graphs from your POH and made them usable in a brand new way. Now, you can calculate how much power your engine is producing. At any RPM, any MP, any altitude, and any OAT. Whether you operate rich or lean of peak EGT. And when you know how much power your engine is generating, you know how treat it right.

We use the same calculations the engine manufacturers use, applying the same laws of physics and chemistry to calculate what your engine is really doing. At any power setting you choose. Don't be confused: When you know more about how your engine operates, you can make the proper decisions about how to operate it. Choose a power setting that makes sense to you, and then choose a mixture that is good for you and your engine.

Yes, when operating rich of peak EGT, the factors involved are complex. That's why we've done the math for you, and put it all into a simple to use form that's quick and easy to use, at your desk or in the cockpit using your iPhone or iPod Touch

Now we've taken the same calculations used in the original Power Wheel and put them into your pocket with your iPhone. In fact, Power Wheel for your iPhone does things the Wheel never could, including automatic calculation of the "standard" temperature for your chosen altitude and the calculation of the density altitude as a bonus.

Note that this version of Power Wheel only supports aircraft with controllable-pitch propellers, typically found in "complex" aircraft (Skylane, C210, Bonanza, Mooney, etc.) Version 2.0 will include support for all other aircraft normally-asperated aircraft (Skyhawk, Cherokee, etc.)

Availability

The Power Wheel App is available from the iTunes store, here.