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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

ForeflightNot ready to be my primary method of navigation for IFR (2 stars)
Im a commercial (almost ATP) pilot with a jet rating. Ive used Jeppesen software for almost 10 years. Ive used Seattle Avionics Voyager for over 5 years. Ive used tablets, laptops, iPhones and iPad (iPad 2 64gb Verizon) in the cockpit. Ive 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 prima

Best flight tool since GPS-Hello 21st century! (5 stars)
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 em

Great App (5 stars)
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 unde

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