Windows Phone App Review: Ballistica

Ballistica for Windows Phone

Ballistica is a rather interesting app for your Windows Phone that provides a quick, piece of cake way to calculate ballistic trajectories. Granted this Windows Phone app won't appeal to everyone but for those who shoot competitively, chase or just like spending time at a firearms range, Ballistica can be a very useful tool.

Ballistica

Ballistica's layout is elementary with v principal components.

Projectile Page: This is where you enter all the information on your bullet of option. From caliber to weight to barrel twist.
Atmospheric condition Page: This is where yous set the weather condition specific to your shooting environment such as altitude, humidity, and wind atmospheric condition.
Target Folio: What you are shooting at impacts ballistic information just equally much every bit wind speed tin. Here you establish distance target bending, target speed and line of sight angle.
Chart Page: This page will show the output of all the variables you've entered on the previous pages. The Chart Page does support landscape view.
Quick Shot Folio: This is some other output page based on the variables you have previously entered but is designed to provide a fast firing solution at one altitude. You besides take the ability to change variables as weather condition change and come across the consequence immediately.

From the lesser of Ballistica'south main folio you'll see three button controls. One to view whatsoever saved ballistic profiles, access the app's settings and pull upwardly the About Screen. Profiles can be saved from the Saved Profile Page by pressing the "+" sign at the bottom of the page. Settings cover how you want your units of measurements to exist displayed (English/Metric).

Ballistica

The user interface for Ballistica is unproblematic and straightforward. All of which comes in handy when you're at the range or out hunting and need to review ballistic data. The merely downside to Ballistica is the lack of a help section. However, you can find the user manual hither at Stonetip's website plus there is a link to the manual on the About screen. If yous're familiar with ballistic calculations, the manual may not be needed just for those only starting out, it really comes in handy.

Ballistica may not be something for anybody just for those needed to create ballistic charts, Ballistica is well worth a look. There is a costless trial version available that is restricted in that you lot can't save profiles. The full version of Ballistica volition run you $v.99 and can exist found here at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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