The V-Cockpit GPS is a bit misleading. While it is a GPS app, it's not at all designed to help you get anywhere. In fact, if you use it while driving, you'll probably end up either ignoring its splendor to focus on the road or getting into an accident.
Instead of a utilitarian tool, V-Cockpit GPS is a sideshow entertainment of sorts, which displays an airplane-like cockpit dashboard right on your iPhone's screen. Rather than show arbitrary data, though, the app displays accurate readings of your speed, altitude, vertical speed, acceleration and heading on analog instruments, making you feel like you're piloting a plane while you're actually riding a bus. You also get an artificial horizon panel, just for good measure, and a data computer that shows a digital summary of the different readings.
You can tap on any of the instruments to bring them up to a full screen; a double tap, on the other hand, turns up a moving chart that plots the specific data against time. Other options include a mirror mode (basically just the same thing mirrored on an upper panel), night vision mode (where all you see are lights) and some authentic airplane sounds, such as radio chatter and engine noise.
It's a visually-fascinating app that really doesn't do anything useful - unless you're really interested in monitoring how fast you're going when riding a train. If that's the case, then you'll love this because it offers pretty realistic and accurate readings. Other than that, though, I can't really recommend getting the paid version - it's not as if we're in a dearth of cool things to entertain us as it is.
You might want to try the V-Cockpit GPS "lite", which comes with limited features, but is still just as fun.
As mentioned, totally useless app. Why would anyone want to even buy this app?
You’re on a small plane to Bermuda – all of the instruments go out – you hand your iphone 4 with v-cockpit to the pilot – he navigates to safety.