Name: ForeFlight Mobile EFB
Rating: 4.3 (973 reviews)
Author: ForeFlight

Description

Download for a 30-day free trial. ForeFlight is the essential, integrated flight app that makes planning, flying, and logging flights a joy.

ForeFlight delivers advanced flight planning capabilities, terminal procedure charts, enroute navigation charts, moving map, synthetic vision, hazard awareness, optional Jeppesen charts, a comprehensive library of market-leading weather information and visualization features, a large library of advanced aircraft performance profiles, customizable checklists, integration with a wide range of certified avionics and portable ADS-B and GPS receivers for inflight weather and data, a built-in documents catalog and cloud document capability for management of aircraft and flight operations publications, an easy-to-use pilot logbook for keeping track of flight experience, and so much more. ForeFlight is backed by our Pilot Support Team who delivers amazingly fast, accurate, and friendly customer service.

Please note: Location is used to enable a moving map and to record track logs, the camera is used to attach photos to logbook, push notifications are used for important bulletins and flight alerts, and contacts are used to add people to flights.

ForeFlight requires a subscription. Visit our website for more information on the available plan levels.

FLIGHT PLANNING, BRIEFING, & FILING
Plan flights with Touch Planning on the Map or full-featured form-based Flights view. Tap out a route in seconds and quickly see if flights will be affected by weather or TFRs. Helpful Route, Altitude, and Procedure Advisors make planning easy and accurate. Generate a graphical preflight briefing and file your flight plan directly from the app. Print a professional-grade Navlog for inflight reference.

WEATHER
Interactive weather layers include animated radar, global satellite and winds aloft, global icing, turbulence, and surface analysis, graphical AIR/SIGMETs, flight category, visibility, and more. View decoded METARs, TAFs, and MOS forecasts. Thoughtfully organized Imagery view puts a full range of forecast tools at your fingertips.

PLATES, CHARTS, & MAPS
Both VFR and IFR operations are covered with all of the essentials required for planning and navigation: data-driven Aeronautical Maps, VFR Sectionals, High/Low Enroute charts, SIDs, STARs, approach and taxi charts, and terrain, satellite, and street map views.

GEO-REFERENCED APPROACHES & TAXI CHARTS
Plates and taxi charts enable the real time display of your GPS location on the chart. They can also be overlaid on the Maps view along with weather and hazards for the ultimate situational awareness.

GLOBAL HAZARD AWARENESS TECHNOLOGY
Plan and fly with more confidence in all conditions and terrain. Top-down-view Hazard Advisor map layer, Terrain Profile View, and 3D Synthetic Vision seamlessly integrate into the map display to depict a clear picture of terrain and obstacle hazards anywhere in the world. When paired with an AHRS source, Synthetic Vision provides a backup attitude display.

LOGBOOK
Logbook makes it easy to log and share flights, track hours, review currency, record certificates and ratings, receive electronic instructor endorsements, and create experience reports. Your data is automatically synced across all your devices and protected in secure cloud storage.

ADDITIONAL FEATURES INCLUDE:
Built-in documents catalog with FAR/AIM, charts supplements, and more
Airport, FBO, and fuel price information for thousands of locations
Dynamic data-driven Aeronautical Maps
Weight & Balance
Glide Advisor
Expected route and EDCT flight notifications
Automatic over-the-air data updates
Chart color inversion for better night flying experience
Access to web planner

REVIEWS
Flying Magazine Editor's Choice 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017
App of the Year, Aviation Consumer, July 2011
Best Selling iPad Aviation App: 2010, 2011, 2012
"Best app for IFR" - Aviation Consumer
"One of the most popular and most-respected aviation apps available" - Sporty's Pilot Shop

Jul 10, 2019

Version 11.6

3D Review
•Follow the path of a planned or recorded flight, with high-resolution terrain and aerial imagery providing an interactive replay so you can get the view from altitude.
•Preview planned flights from the Maps or Flights views, and replay past flights from Track Logs or Logbook entries, complete with realistic pitch and bank if you recorded the flight with an AHRS-capable device.
•Manually scrub through a flight using the built-in timeline, or auto-play the flight at 1x, 3x, 5x, 10x, or 20x normal speed for a faster overview.
•Pan and zoom within the interactive 3D View to get a 360° panorama of the environment along a route.
•3D Review is included in ForeFlight Performance plans. 

Map Annotations
•Write and draw directly on the Maps view for easier note-taking on the fly.
•Tap the new Annotations button on the left sidebar to enter Drawing Mode.
•Use one finger to draw, and use two fingers to move the map without adding new annotations.
•Editing options include choosing line color, opacity, and thickness, and you can undo, redo or clear all annotations.
•Quickly add Map Annotations by touching your Apple Pencil to your iPad’s screen, while normal touch gestures still allow you to pan, zoom, or tap on map objects. Auto Apple Pencil Drawing mode will automatically exit after 10 seconds without input.
•Enable the Auto Apple Pencil Drawing setting and change or disable the Drawing Mode Reset time in More > Settings. 

Logbook Instructor Tools & Remote Endorsements
•Instructor Tools in Logbook is a convenient place for flight instructors to manage their certificate information, and issue remote endorsements to students.
•Logbook’s helpful endorsement lookup and auto-fill capability makes it easy, fast, and accurate to create and send endorsements.
•Save time and taps by setting up your signature information once, then quickly access it when you create endorsements.
•Your student will receive a notification and see the pending endorsement at the top of their Logbook view, allowing them to review and accept, or decline.
•Easily keep track of past endorsements, and issue new ones, in the Endorsement Records view. 

Logbook Auto-Calculates Night Times and Landings
•Logbook automatically calculates Night Time and Night Landings and populates these values in your Logbook entry.
•Out/Off/On/In times from Track Log data or that you enter manually are used to determine how much of the flight occurred at night, and any landings that ForeFlight detects during that time are also added as Night Landings. 

Checklist Speak
•Complete your checklists more efficiently by allowing ForeFlight to speak them to you.
•Tap the “Speak” button when viewing a checklist and ForeFlight will read each challenge item, or both challenge and response, aloud.
•A quick-action bar at the bottom of the screen allows you to pause or exit Speak mode, and move faster or slower through the checklist. This bar remains visible on every app view so you can continue using other parts of the app while running through the checklist.
•Access settings for Checklist Speak in More > Settings. 

Alternate Airports Included in Pack
•The Pack feature on the Flights view now includes airport, weather, and chart information between your destination and your selected Alternate.

4.3 out of 5

973 Ratings

Foreflight: Essential and best value in all of aviation!

FF is easily the best app for aviation. I have all others, and they are not bad, some even good (eg GP), but I will not leave home without FF. Connecting to various Garmin devices now makes it a great in flight manager as well. I am glad that emphasis is placed on pre-flight management in this update. While flying multiple aircraft in various conditions, different performances, loads, settings, it is all adjusted on the fly through a pilot centered, intuitive interface. This makes keeping track of all data pertinent to a flight, as well as briefing, filing and tracking the flight as easy as can be. As an app goes, it is not cheap like a 2.99 game, but as an essential, reliable tool it is the cheapest utility around in all of aviation. In a world where we measure things in AMU’s, this app and it’s subscription fees are nothing to cry about, and in my opinion the subscription fee is the least I can contribute to keep this ForeFlight team eager to improve and grow.

My only concern is not related to FF, but more related to the iPad and its very short life cycle before obsolescence. I am already concerned about what will happen when iPads cease to exist. For now, i am including a new iPad every other year to the price of doing business.

We use this daily!

We fly 12 to 18 hours per week with ForeFlight and Stratus 2. ForeFlight has come along way since it’s introduction with synthetic vision, excellent integration with Stratus and so much more. I did get concerned with the previous version as we started having multiple crashes on two different newer iPads daily. We do load multiple waypoint and it seemed like that might have been a factor? I always make sure my iPad has plenty of open SSD space and the newer iPads have 2GB or more RAM, so I wonder if the software rolled out too fast? We’re also very careful about not updating the OS until the all clear is given. I just hope ForeFlight’s team slows down a little on all the bells and whistles. It’s much more crucial for the product to work flawlessly versus having 3D views of airports / etc. All in all ForeFlight is the BEST aviation App on the market and their team is obviously awesome at coding. My concerns and comments here about previous crashes are only because we’re addicted to ForeFlight and never want to see it burdened with issues. The new version seems to be more stable with only the rare crash. It does open back up in seconds right were you left off. Keep up the good work. Thanks ForeFlight!

Hello IFR-Pilot. Thank you for the feedback! Would you please send an email to our Support team at team@foreflight.com? We would like to troubleshoot this issue with you.

Great EFB, but Map frame-rate and resolution are not optimized.

ForeFlight is an excellent tool for flight planning, weather analysis, and everything in-between. However, there are two glaring issues I have with the application, especially when compared to the competitors (primarily Garmin Pilot). To start off, the screen frame-rate is capped at either 24 or 30 FPS. The app feels laggy due to this. This is especially upsetting if you have the latest Apple devices (such as the iPhone XS and especially the iPad Pro) that can do 60 FPS and 60+ FPS respectively. Secondly, the map resolution could be sharper, and isn’t optimized for particular devices. The sectional (or zoomed out En-route IFR chart) view is pixelated on my iPhone XS and does not sharpen up until it becomes a TAC. Even then, the map isn’t as sharp as it is on Garmin Pilot. Updating these two features would be excellent for me, and would change my 3-star review to a 5-star review. For $100 or more to purchase this app, things like this should be worked in.

Information

Seller: ForeFlight, LLC
Size: 248.4 MB
Category: Weather
Compatibility: Requires iOS 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Languages: English, French, German
Age Rating: Rated 4+
Location: This app may use your location even when it isn't open, which can decrease battery life.
Copyright: © 2018 ForeFlight LLC
Price: Free
In-App Purchases: Basic Plus US - 1 Year $99.99

Pro Plus US - 1 Year $199.99

Basic Plus US - 3 months $49.99