Feature request: show glide-amoeba

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Ideally this would factor in winds aloft. It's impractical to get winds aloft 
data in flight (especially in airplane mode), so ignore that.

Let the user input best glide speed and sink rate in a config page somewhere. 
If they do that and enable the glide-circle feature, then show a shape 
enclosing the no-wind glide range based on terrain.

Requires terrain data.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ph...@google.com on 11 Dec 2010 at 12:54

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Ideas for integrating additional sensors from Chris:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/8255 (Arduino bluetooth)
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9623 (IMU + magnetometer)
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9694 (one for static and one for
dynamic pressure)
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9418 (OAT)

It would be super cool to put these together into a bluetooth AHRS+air-
data computer for Android.
You'd install this little module in your plane (the pitot static
connections maybe problematic for non-experimentals),
and it could send data to Android phones or tablets to drive an open-
source flight information system.

Original comment by ph...@google.com on 17 Dec 2010 at 7:31