ForeFlight Mobile Aviation Weather, Flight Planning, EFB, and Charts
By ForeFlight
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Description
ForeFlight Mobile is the critically acclaimed flight planning and flight support app for pilots.
Built with an attention to detail and backed by a dedicated, fanatical support team, ForeFlight is a best selling aviation app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.
Continued ForeFlight service requires a subscription, available via in-app purchase.
REVIEWS AND PRAISE
✣ Editor's Choice, Flying Magazine, January 2012
✣ App of the Year, Aviation Consumer, July 2011
✣ #1 Best Selling iPad App of 2010 in the Weather category - Apple, 2010 iTunes Rewind
✣ "For those who haven't had the privilege of using ForeFlight, you're missing out" - Ian Twombly, AOPA Pilot Magazine
✣ "One of the most popular and most-respected aviation apps available" - Sporty's Pilot Shop, July 2010
AIRPORT AND FACILITY DIRECTORY
ForeFlight's A/FD provides information about US and major international airports. Data is provided by government authorities, the AOPA, and Universal Weather and Aviation. Critical airport information is displayed elegantly and additionally provides METARs, TAFs, winds aloft, and NOTAMS.
PLATES & CHARTS
ForeFlight provides access to US VFR and Terminal Area (TAC) charts; US and Canadian IFR en-route charts; and 15,000 US and 2,000 Canadian instrument procedures. En-route charts are geo-referenced.
ForeFlight Pro includes TrueTaxi and TruePlates geo-referenced approach procedures for the US, made possible by SeattleAvionics ChartData.
The "Bring Your Own Procedures" feature allows import of special instrument procedures.
WEATHER
ForeFlight's weather is best-in-class. 10 weather Slip Maps™ with route overlay, pinch and zoom support, and touch planning support deliver information about conditions along your route quickly and visually. In-flight weather is possible via Stratus ADS-B or XM. Maps include:
✣ Flight rules
✣ HD NEXRAD composite radar
✣ Visible and IR satellite
✣ Visibility
✣ Lightning
✣ Temp and dew-point spread
✣ Sky coverage
✣ Wind conditions
✣ Global winds aloft
TOUCH PLANNING & MOVING MAP
Plan flights by touch to draw a route of flight, bend a route around weather, and add or drop waypoints. 'Direct To' functions get you where you want quickly.
Engage the moving map and see your ship's position on top of en-route charts; use the customizable dashboard to display groundspeed and altitude, track, GPS accuracy, or one of 15 different instruments.
AIRWAYS/SIDS/STARS
ForeFlight supports airways, SIDS, STARS, and providers cleared ATC routes. Use multi-runway SIDS, airway entrances/exits, intersections, airway identifiers, and even the most complex STARS.
FUEL PRICES
ForeFlight provides fuel price information, visually color coded by price, for 2,300+ FBOs in Canada and the US. Pilots can also submit fuel price updates in-app.
FLIGHT PLAN FILING
File flight plans from your iPhone or iPad and get confirmation in seconds. Copies are stored on our servers for safe-keeping; email confirmations and briefings are sent automatically.
DOWNLOAD MANAGER
Select the regions and information you need. Download one area or the whole country from our highly reliable delivery network. Plate and chart volumes install in seconds.
COMMENTS
Submit comments directly from device, wherever you may be, and read comments from other pilots. You may just find a great place for fried pickles.
CREDITS
✣ Canadian radar coverage is provided by Environment Canada.
✣ International A/FD provided by Universal Weather and Aviation.
What's New in Version 4.5.2
4.5.2 includes application updates, bug fixes, and a firmware update for Stratus.
App Updates:
✣ Better support for airway identification during touch planning.
✣ Showing NDB as approach type option on airport view.
✣ Removed zoom filtering on PIREP markers to show all available PIREPs.
✣ Fix for bug that sometimes caused app exit when opening app with animated radar running.
✣ Fix for better display of active upcoming TFR when in the middle of a multi-part TFR.
✣ Fix for certain international fixes on touch planning.
✣ Fix for ETD parsing when noon is part of input.
✣ Fix for bug where updated documents and catalogs didn't always get refreshed properly.
Stratus Firmware Updates:
✣ Stratus 1.2 firmware update. Visit http://foreflight.com/stratusfirmware for a video walkthrough of how to update the firmware inside ForeFlight Mobile.
✣ Alert messages when connected to Stratus and trying to view areas of the app without ADS-B data: satellite maps, lightning maps, or Imagery.
✣ Fix for removing no-data overlay when switching from active WiFi network to Stratus.
✣ Improvements for Stratus TFR parsing.
Customer Reviews
Foreflight—Not ready to be my primary method of navigation for IFR
I’m a commercial (almost ATP) pilot with a jet rating. I’ve used Jeppesen software for almost 10 years. I’ve used Seattle Avionics Voyager for over 5 years. I’ve used tablets, laptops, iPhones and iPad (iPad 2 64gb Verizon) in the cockpit. I’ve used Foreflight for 13 months. I embrace technology in the cockpit.
Based upon my flying experience with Foreflight, I will not use Foreflight alone in the cockpit as my primary method of IFR charts or navigation without another iPad flight app running and ready to use as an immediate backup and paper charts at my immediate disposal.
I have had only 1 flight in the last 6 where Foreflight has not crashed during an instrument procedure. For 5 of my 6 last IFR flights, Foreflight, without any warning or input on my part, has crashed during an IFR approach or transition to an approach. I’ve lost the app on final, on procedure turn, on the DME arc, and STAR. The app goes from showing a geo-referenced plate to completely crashing the app and taking me to the iPad homescreen. This is the only app I have that experiences this trouble. No other nav application—EFB, Tom Tom, Maps--has this issue.
I’ve used Foreflight support and received no substantive help. They give immediate email response, but no support. Apple support says it’s Foreflight. Foreflight says that Foreflight might be addressing a part of my Ipad’s memory that other programs don’t.
Until you’ve personally tested this for many flights, use Foreflight as a program that needs to prove that it’s stable. An EFB app MUST be stable during an IFR approach or else its worse than useless, it’s dangerous.
Best flight tool since GPS-Hello 21st century!
As I am now in my 35th year of flying (including the USAF), this utility makes me feel as if I've reached the 21st century! Of course I will keep some emergency paper approach plates but for all practical purposes, I now have an almost paperless cockpit. I think I will always have a paper checklist as this is about the only thing this program does not have. In fact, if the developer reads this, please add a Beechcraft A-36 checklist with emergency procedures & POH to this & it will then be perfect. I never wanted an iPad because I had no need for it but when the Stratus came out to work with this program with no XM subscription, I had to have it. Goodbye storm scope! I am looking forward to many hours of flying without having to guess about real time Wx.
Great App
Ditto to all the above. For checklists: I had a paper checklist I printed from a MSWord document for my G35 Bonanza. When I got the iPad, I "published" the checklist as a PDF file using MSWord then emailed the PDF file to myself. When I downloaded the file, I selected "open with Foreflight" and it saved the document in Foreflight. As I let down, I have the approach plate under the "plates" tab, the map under the "map" tab, the destination info under the "airport" tab and my checklist under the "documents" tab. Slick and easy to use. I'm saving my pennies for the ADS-B reciever.
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- Category: Weather
- Updated: May 10, 2012
- Version: 4.5.2
- Size: 24.3 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: ForeFlight, LLC
- © 2012 ForeFlight LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
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