Foreflight 201 advanced presentation summer 2015 youtube. Sep 08, 2014 the foreflight app is growing at an incredible pace these days, adding powerful new features every few months. Garmin has some neat mapping features i love and wish they really would get their product as complete as foreflight. Join our community today and start interacting with existing members. Logbook is included in the basic plus and pro plus subscription plans for. Flight planning, aviation weather, maps and charts. For a vfr pilot, wingx offers far more features and bang for the buck in their base progam than either foreflight or garmin. This video is for foreflight customers with subscription plans other than performance plus, including the original plans and the basic plus and pro plus plans. Oct 23, 2015 foreflight rules the roost when it comes to preflight planning.
Other software available on the survey question were foreflight mobile. 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 marketleading weather information and visualization features, a large. Foreflight on the ipad a pilot friendly manual by john dittmer p. Manually scrub through a flight using the builtin timeline, or autoplay the flight at 1x, 3x, 5x, 10x, or 20x normal speed for a faster overview. Our pilot s guide to foreflight mobile answers many questions related to our flagship app. While many pilots utilize the popular app, even experienced users can discover better and more efficient ways to make use of its. Foreflights ipad buying guide for pilots administrivia.
Watch the video at the top of this page for stepbystep instructions. Watch your flying watch your flying october 23, 2015 by alton k. You will learn how to use the app to its fullest from planning to inflight navigation. Foreflight provides hundreds of freelydownloadable documents from official government sources, including the faa, nav canada, and eurocontrol. Download, import, view, and annotate documents with foreflights easytouse documents view. Please refer to the pilots guide for foreflight mobile for more information about. Securely import and distribute flight manuals, operating handbooks, or special. Foreflights sync platform seamlessly synchronizes your logbook information across all of the devices on your account.
Professional pilot commercial offtheshelf cots efb usage. Like all ipad apps, youll find foreflight mobile 4. Foreflights servers regularly backup the logbook when changes or additions are made, delivering a new level of security and assurance for digital pilot logbook data. Aug 11, 2015 this presentation is an advanced, scenariobased course on flying with foreflight mobile. Pilots guide to foreflight mobile for ipad foreflight. Oct 22, 2014 pilotworkshops has released a free download of its pilotfriendly foreflight manual. Less than a month after their last major update, foreflight released version 10. Get more out of foreflight with free training guides ipad. It meant spreading sectional charts across the dining room table and drawing lines to connect waypoints, filling out cross country logs, and lots of erasing. An electronic flight bag efb is an electronic information management device that helps flight. It does concern me that there is only 1 real product on the market at this time. Providerspecific documents are also available with select subscription addons, such as jeppesens global enroute manuals and documents from european chart providers like dfs, skyguide, and rogers data. The logbook feature is available with foreflight basic plus and pro plus, one that, weihs said, lots of users are finding too tempting to pass up. Aim, airplane flying handbook, instrument procedures handbook, etc.
A box will appear on this screen to notify you that stratus is successfully connected. Answers to many of your questions can be found in our helpful guides, videos, and searchable database of questions and answers. Pilotworkshops has released a free download of its pilot friendly foreflight manual. Since youre going to be using one after you get your ir, youre best off using it for your ir training and testing. Foreflight is far better and even more concerning was garmin pilot had some errors on the vhf charts. Please first take a look at the faqs on this page, or use the search form above. Foreflight will automatically calculate night time and landings from associated track logs, flight plans, and manuallyentered data. Welcome to airline pilot forums connect and get the inside scoop on airline companies if this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq. This video shows how to use the maps ruler in foreflight to quickly estimate distance, time, and approximate fuel burn between any two points on an open map. Electronic flight bag legal briefing for pilots 2020 edition ipad. Documents are synced across all your devices and backed up to the foreflight cloud so theyre ready when you need them. Helpful support information for the industrys smallest, most affordable offthe shelf solution for receiving inflight adsb weather and traffic on foreflight. New documents on iphone, improved documents interface, document sync in foreflight 11. 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 marketleading weather information and.
Marsh hoping to go one step further than aopa editor in chief tom haines, who flew from oshkosh to frederick, maryland, using his garmin d2 watch, i planned to fly to toronto for lunch, using only an apple watch to file customs forms, plan the flight, navigate, and check weather. The ipad with foreflight is a superb tool for weather, flight planning, and filing, as well as a great efb in flight. These books, written, revised and updated over a period of almost 60 years, use the experience of two pilots and over 22,000 hours of flight instructing and flying airplanes ranging from 40 hp piper cub j2s to boeing 777s. This is great information for pilots looking to make the transition from paper.
Were excited to announce the release of the pilots guide to foreflight mobile. I also felt having an electronic logbook would be an added layer of protection in case my paper one is lost or destroyed. A continual stream of product enhancements means foreflight is the gift that keeps giving throughout the year. Foreflight military flight bag provides worldwide dflip enroute charts, dflip. Dec 11, 2015 foreflight reports the foreflight logbook is now available. The cool thing is that all three offer a 30 day free trial so you can download and compare the programs in order for you to see which one actually suits your needs the best. On a recent flight from austin executive airport to denton, near dallas, i used foreflight to get the weather, file. And finally, documents are now supported on the iphone, making them even more accessible. The 26page pdf manual shares tips and techniques for getting the most from the app, with a special emphasis on flight plan operations.
No, scout does not include a flight data recorder and cannot be used to record. Digital pilot logbook for ipad and iphone foreflight. These devices are typically consumer commercial offtheshelf cots. This clip originally appeared in sportys flying with foreflight training course, available as an app in the app store and as an online course. Back when i first got my private pilot certificate, planning a cross country was a major task. Foreflight is the essential, integrated flight app that makes planning, flying, and logging flights a joy. This user manual covers foreflight mobile hd on the ipad, although much of it applies to iphone users as well. Each section ends with a summary and a list of key terms, as well as questions to help you burn the knowledge better into your mind.
From this screen, you may interact with your stratus. Manually import documents via airdrop, itunes, or email, then access them or add them to custom binders from the imported drive. Our pilots guide to foreflight mobile answers many questions related to our flagship app. Foreflight aviations top app basic plus subscription. Other upgrades include more timely alerts and airborne updates to graphical tfrs, and new stratus features such as a sticky attitude and heading reference system that remembers its precise orientation in the. Please first take a look at the faqs on this page, or. Besides developing the most widelyused efb app in the aviation industry, foreflight has also gained a reputation for providing excellent product support for its customerssomething that seems to be more the exception than the norm in the mobile app industry. We have answered many common questions on those pages. Foreflight plans to add automated insurance and faa 8710 forms that will reduce pilot paperwork and avoid errors in the near future. Garmin pilot users will experience audible traffic and terrain warnings when paired with an adsbin andor gps source. Welcome to airline pilot forums connect and get the inside. Ive been using foreflight mobile since version 2, and raving about it on twitter the entire time.
If youre buying an ipad for the first time, we recommend the ipad 3 youll appreciate the faster performance in apps and sharper display. Discounted foreflight download and read the foreflight pilot s guide, available at foreflight. These devices are typically consumer commercial offtheshelf cots electronic devices functionally capable of communications, data. Theres no phase of flight where foreflight mobile 4. Foreflight power user the most advanced foreflight course. Its free for 30 days, and includes live data, but to enable full functionality including downloads for offline viewing, youll need a data subscription. Foreflight ipad app pro plus subscription from sportys. Pilotworkshops has released a free download of its pilotfriendly foreflight manual. Foreflight s documents view has an enhanced layout that makes it easier to find, download, and access documents.
Manually import documents via airdrop, itunes, or email, then access them or. Were excited to announce the release of the pilot s guide to foreflight mobile. Compatible with foreflight, garmin pilot, and any other audiocapable software on your bluetoothenabled device including stereo quality music for personal entertainment during flight. Documents are also included in foreflight s sync system, allowing you to access your documents, annotations, and bookmarks from any device. At this point, foreflight has been around long enough that you know their flagship product. Sep 02, 2010 were excited to announce the release of the pilots guide to foreflight mobile.
The ipad app, foreflight mobile, is a great tool for any private pilot, and now you can learn it quickly with the pilot s handbook for foreflight. Foreflight delivers everything a pilot needs for planning, briefing, filing, and logging flights all in an elegantly designed app that syncs from the web to mobile. Weve provided a pdf version for reading online or printing, as well as a special epub version for use in ibooks. Electronic flight bag and apps for pilots foreflight. The private pilot manual is packed with useful and important information, like several of the faa publications put together but more graphic intensive and a bit easier to read. Jul 11, 2018 the summer flying season is in full swing, and like in years past, that means lots of new aviation app updates are hitting the app store. Its a great way to keep your checklists, poh, local procedures, and more up to.
Download, bookmark, and annotate flight supplements like airway manuals and regulatory documents. Introduction this pilot s guide provides an overview of the logbook feature in foreflight mobile. These include reduced reflectivity by 40 percent and a 25 percent increasein. If youre still running the original ipad, its time to think about upgrading foreflight mobile runs significantly faster on either the ipad 2 or ipad 3, especially the moving map. Do you think the ipad 2 will last me the next 23 years in flight training instructing, or should i just go ahead and sell it and spend more money for a future proof ipad air 2. Ipad foreflight buying question airline pilot central forums. Foreflight mobile, open the foreflight mobile app on your iphone or ipad and select devices.