ForeFlight: Intelligent Apps for Pilots

ForeFlight added a new aviator to the family today! Congratulations to Jason and Krista Miller, who gave birth to baby Evan at 22:32 zulu – 9 pounds, 12 oz, and 21 in (not manifold pressure). All is well, and as Jason said, “all the right parts attached!”.

Congrats Jason and Krista!

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If you pull up “Current and Forecast” weather for an airport or visit a weather station page, you will now see a high-resolution, 50nm-wide looping doppler radar image centered on the airport or weather station. The images look fantastic on the iPhone. Here is a screenshot:

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ForeFlight received another round of new features tonight:

• Departure, arrival, and approach plates!
• Nearby airports: the airports page now shows airports within a 25 nm radius of the airport you’re viewing. We show the distance to the airport and the cardinal compass direction.
• Nearby weather: the weather reports now show observations from aerodromes within a 50 nm radius of the station you’re viewing.
• Frequency user interface update: we’ve organized the frequencies by those local to the airport and those provided by a remote facility.
• Relative humidity added to weather reports.

We also worked in a few other enhancements, including:

• Improvements to “remember me” so that you’ll be remembered – well – forever! No more need to log in a second time.
• Improved handling of foreign METARs and TAFs (both military and foreign stations put funky stuff in their METARs, and we’re better at handling the funk).
• Password change.

Enjoy!

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Tonight we pushed a few updates out to production! They include:

• Limit the number of recent airports, weather stations, and routes to reduce clutter on the home screen.
• Distance finder will show you the initial magnetic heading from departure to destination point.
• The home screen now displays plain language weather underneath each weather station in your recents list.
• The airport information screen was enhanced so that you can initiate a call to any listed phone number, including those in airport remarks, 1-800 numbers, and ATIS/ASOS number that include an alternate suffix.
• More runway information, such as right-hand traffic patterns and approach lighting systems in use.

Improved Direct Dial ASOS/ATIS

Plain language weather on the home screen

Distance finder with initial magnetic headings

As always, we appreciate your feedback and suggestions!

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