ForeFlight Mobile Aviation and Preflight Intelligence
By ForeFlight
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Description
ForeFlight Mobile 3 Aviation and Preflight Intelligence for pilots is the latest update to ForeFlight's critically acclaimed flagship app. Hundreds of new features and a completely redesigned user interface make ForeFlight Mobile 3 the must-have companion for any student, private, instrument, commercial, airline transport, or military pilot.
REVIEWS AND PRAISE
✣ "Top Honors" and "best visuals and design" of cell phone weather apps for pilots - The Aviation Consumer, 2008
✣ One of the "diamonds in the rough" - The Aviation Consumer, 2010
✣ "There is no one who exploits iPhone capabilities better than ForeFlight" - AOPA
✣ "A well thought-out product" - EAA Member, EAA Sport Aviation
NEW FEATURES IN v3.0
Airport Directory
✣ Redesigned airport information views.
✣ Fully integrated AOPA Airport directory.
✣ Global airport coverage, courtesy of Universal Weather and Aviation's UVTripPlanner database.
✣ Improved NOTAM organization by airport, TFR, and ARTCC.
✣ Covers 27,000+ airports in 220+ countries.
✣ 1,200+ thumbnail airport diagrams showing FBO locations.
✣ 9,000+ Fixed Based Operators
✣ Service providers, hotels, and transportation information
Weather
✣ Elegant presentation of METARs, TAFs, and Winds Aloft with color coded text, plain language translations.
✣ Observation data updated every minute.
✣ HD NEXRAD and Satellite provided
Slip Maps™
✣ Pinch, pan, and zoom Slip Maps™
✣ GPS integrated
✣ Route overlay
✣ HD NEXRAD and Satellite
✣ Weather provided by WDT, a QICP-certified provider.
✣ Download VFR and IFR sectional charts for use offline.
✣ Route planning with NAVAIDs and wind corrections.
Flight Plan Filing
✣ One-tap flight briefings with email confirmations and archival on ForeFlight servers.
✣ File more than 24 hours in advance.
Download Management
✣ Download, pause, and resume downloads
✣ Download terminal procedures individually, by airport, or by state
✣ Over 4GB of downloadable data for use when away from WiFi or a mobile phone network.
OTHER FEATURES
✣ Flight plan filing and briefing with detailed email confirmations, flight plan copy, and flight plan defaults
✣ More weather imagery, including winds aloft charts
✣ FAA airport diagrams
✣ Approach, departure and instrument procedures
✣ METARs, TAFs and winds aloft
✣ Hundreds of weather images
✣ Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs)
✣ Direct Dial™ to ASOS and AWOS
✣ Flight plan filing and flight plan history
✣ Route and distance finder with initial heading
✣ Aircraft N-Number search
✣ Nearby airports and weather based on your current GPS location
Download ForeFlight Mobile 3 for free today and join our rapidly growing community of passionate and well-informed aviators. A 30-day subscription is included in the application purchase price. Extend your subscription at any time using the Accounts tab and one of our In App purchase plans. Plan pricing is available on our website at http://www.foreflight.com
NOTE: Approach plates, flight plan filing, and animated radar are only available for the USA. Customers outside the USA: please email team@foreflight.com for details about supported features in your particular region.
What's New in Version 3.1.1
* Download manager bug fix
Customer Reviews
Impressive Revision to a Solid App
This is a great upgrade to the Foreflight Mobile application, including some important back-end tweaks and impressive changes to the user interface. You now get more control over the data, choosing what you want to keep local on the phone (only the sectionals you need.) You also seem to get more information at your fingertips period. This also finally seems to be the integration of the Charts app with the Foreflight app in that you can now view your intended flight path over everything including VFR sectionals, IFR sectionals, street maps and even current radar and satellite imagery! These maps can now also be variably zoomed using the iPhone touch control which is not true of the weather maps in the previous version. It is true however, that the the trade-off for the free price of this new app is that the data is now served through a subscription model. This is still the best aviation planning/weather app going and the central data from third party partners has been dramatically improved. If you loved the most recent version, you'll love this one. If you have reservations about the subscription, keep both apps and try the 3 month plan with the new one. Then you can decide if the subscription is worth it. After just a few minutes using the app, I think it is.
This app beats WingX and Garmin's Pilot MyCast
I was going to buy a Garmin 696 until I started comparing the price to keep the charts and all the data up to date on it! Garmin charges over $1500 PER YEAR to keep the charts and all the data up to date!!! That's after paying over $3000 to get the unit! I compared that to ForeFlight Mobile with all the approach plates kept current every month, plus all the charts like VFR and IFR charts plus Airport/Facility Directory information for the entire world for only $75 per year! It's a no brainer!
I looked at WingX, but it's such an ugly app it looks like it was written by someone new to programming for an iPhone. I guess that's because it originally came from Windows Mobile devices - I just can't get past the horrible user interface. Besides, I didn't want to pay $100 just to try it out.
Somebody smart at ForeFlight came up with the idea to let us try their top of the line aviation application, ForeFlight Mobile v3 for free for 30-days and let us see how much better it is than all the rest of the iPhone apps out there! Incredible.
And the iPhone app for FltPlan.com - give me a break. That doesn't even come close to being a real iPhone app! Must have been written by the same people as WingX.
ForeFlight Mobile beats them all - Give it a try for 30-days and see for yourself! But do us all a favor, if you're too cheap to pay for it, keep your cheapness to yourself and don't just knock this program because you do not want to pay a fair price for a superior product. Spare us all.
Subcription based updates :(
4-stars for new users. 1 star for previous owners who already paid $70 for v2. Previous owners should get atleast a $70 credit towards subscription fees.
I still get same data from other iPhone apps without a subscription so I don't see me keeping this one.
That being said, I love this app and will give it a fair trial and update my review then.
- Free
- Category: Weather
- Updated: Mar 16, 2010
- Current Version: 3.1.1
- 11.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: ForeFlight, LLC
- © 2009 ForeFlight LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
Top In App Purchases
- 1 1 Year Plan, Loyal Customer! $49.99
- 2 1 Year Plan $74.99
- 3 3 Month Plan $24.99
- 4 3 Month Plan $24.99
