This will be the support thread for my watch application: TruFlite Ballistics
TruFlite is an exterior ballistics program for long range shooting. It contains a highly accurate, yet stand alone ballistics engine that is extremely fast. Designed to not rely on connecting with a phone for calculations.
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/c8a08648-1344-4dd5-ac3d-6a54b165db5c
I will post release notes here as new versions are released as well as the main application page.
Feel free to post questions, comments, feature requests, or bug reports here or send me an email directly using Contact Developer
When calculating a firing solution, TruFlite uses the current Ambient Barometric Pressure from the device's raw sensor in order to provide the most accurate solution for your current environment. This value is displayed just above the firing solution and will be displayed in green, indicating the value came from a sensor. For slightly older devices that do not allow applications direct access to the raw pressure sensor, the device altitude is used to calculate current pressure. Temperature is manually inputted or retrieved from an external sensor, since the internal temperature sensor of the watch is affected by body temperature and therefore provides an inaccurate ambient temperature.
If you have a Garmin Tempe Temperature sensor and wish to use it with TruFlite, simply follow the standard instructions for pairing the sensor with your garmin device. Once your garmin device has successfully found your Tempe sensor you can go to the TruFlite Option menu and turn the "Tempe Sensor" option "on". In order to conserve battery, the Tempe sensor only transmits temperature readings approximately once per minute. Therefore, when you first turn it on, it could take up to a minute before TruFlite will see a new value from the sensor. If TruFlite sucessfully gets an external temperature value it will be displayed in green, otherwise TruFlite will continue to use the manually provided temperature value, which will be displayed in white. Hitting/tapping OK/Select will cause TruFlite to update all sensor values and the firing solution.
The TruFlite ballistic engine is very fast. No need to pre-calculate any values and should return a firing solution immediately. If you wish to discuss ballistic engine internals feel free to contact me.
Accuracy: TruFlite results have been compared to several defacto standard ballistic engines; such as Applied Ballistics, Strelok and JBM and is within inches or 0.25moa out beyond 1500 yards for long range cartridges and under various environmental conditions. Assuming all inputs, options and environmentals are the same.
Please note that SOME questions, comments, information, feature requests and/or bug reports in this thread are getting dated, the older the post the more likely it has been changed, implemented, fixed, etc. Please refer to more recent posts first. I will also try to add responses to old posts with more current information.
