The Flight Indicators Plugin allows you to display high quality flight indicators using html, css3, jQuery and SVG images. The methods make customization and real time implementation really easy. Further, since all the images are vector svg you can resize the indicators to your application without any quality loss !
Currently supported indicators are :
- Attitude (artificial horizon)
- Heading
- Vertical speed
- Air speed
- Altimeter
Demo can be found here : http://sebmatton.github.io/flightindicators/
Here are a few examples of currently implemented indicators :
The image below shows a part of an 800px indicator. Vector images allows you to keep high quality render with large indicators.
To use this plugin you need to import the css file in the head of your html file :
<linkrel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/flightindicators.css" />Before the </body> tag, include jQuery and this plugin :
<scriptsrc="js/jquery.js"></script><scriptsrc="js/jquery.flightindicator.js"></script>Create a <span> section to put an indicator in :
<spanid="attitude"></span>Then, when the span is ready in the DOM (maybe you need to wait for document ready), you can run the indicator function :
varindicator=$.flightIndicator('#attitude',type,options);Where the first argument is the selector, the type value specify the indicator type and the options overwrite the default settings.
To display the most simple indicator, as for example the attitude indicator, we use :
varindicator=$.flightIndicator('#attitude','attitude');The type may be attitude, heading, variometer, airspeed or altimeter. If the type is not correct, the default type will be attitude.
Initial settings can be modified using the options parameter. Here are the valid options and the default settings :
varoptions={size : 200,// Sets the size in pixels of the indicator (square)roll : 0,// Roll angle in degrees for an attitude indicatorpitch : 0,// Pitch angle in degrees for an attitude indicatorheading: 0,// Heading angle in degrees for an heading indicatorvario: 0,// Variometer in 1000 feets/min for the variometer indicatorairspeed: 0,// Air speed in knots for an air speed indicatoraltitude: 0,// Altitude in feets for an altimeter indicatorpressure: 1000,// Pressure in hPa for an altimeter indicatorshowBox : true,// Sets if the outer squared box is visible or not (true or false)img_directory : 'img/'// The directory where the images are saved to}The options parameters are optionnals.
Some methods are used to update the indicators, giving the opportunity to create realtime GUI !
The way to use it is really simple.
varattitude=$.flightIndicator('#attitude','attitude');attitude.setRoll(30);// Sets the roll to 30 degreesHere are the valid methods :
indicator.setRoll(roll);// Sets the roll of an attitude indicatorindicator.setPitch(pitch);// Sets the pitch of an attitude indicatorindicator.setHeading(heading);// Sets the heading of an heading indicatorindicator.setVario(vario);// Sets the climb speed of an variometer indicatorindicator.setAirSpeed(speed);// Sets the speed of an airspeed indicatorindicator.setAltitude(altitude);// Sets the altitude of an altimeter indicatorindicator.setPressure(pressure);// Sets the pressure of an altimeter indicatorindicator.resize(size);// Sets the size of any indicatorsindicator.showBox();// Make the outer squared box of any instrument visibleindicator.hideBox();// Make the outer squared box of any instrument invisibleAuthor : Sébastien Matton (seb_matton@hotmail.com)
jQuery Flight Indicators plugin was developped as part of my Master's Thesis since I needed a realtime interface showing the flight datas about for a quadcopter.
The project is published under GPLv3 License. See LICENSE file for more informations
Feel free to take part in this project or/and contact me for any reason :-)
Thanks to igneosaur for work on which this project was initialy based (Project on Bitbucket)

