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iPhone Helps Save a Life
When we first started developing software for the iPhone, we had no idea just how many people would find what we built useful and valuable. Over the past year, we have founds ourselves amazed at the ways the iPhone and mobile aviation software has helped improve situational awareness and safety. Every day we get encouraging…
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ForeFlight Charts: Now Includes Alaska VFR Sectionals
Last night we launched VFR sectional chart coverage for Alaska for our pilot friends up north. Alaska coverage presented unique challenges: the whole area is about 50% of the size of the contiguous US (thus a lot of disk space and additional processing required), and the mercator projection has interesting effects on geographical areas far…
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Weather Briefings in Your Inbox
Earlier this week we enabled a new feature: automatic DUATS weather briefings via email. Simply file a plan using ForeFlight Mobile or ForeFlight File, include your email address on the flight planning form, and seconds later an elegantly styled briefing appears in your email inbox. Refer to the briefing later, forward it to a friend,…