Data updates are now available to download for the Feb 7, 2013 – Mar 7, 2013 period:
All customers will be prompted to download these updates inside of ForeFlight Mobile.
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A new airport and navigation database is available for download for the Jan 10 – Feb 7, 2013 period to address two FAA safety alerts issued on Jan 29, 2013:
Additionally, this update corrects references to several Canadian instrument procedures.
All customers will be prompted to download this airport and navigation database update inside of ForeFlight Mobile. Customers who have selected Taxi Diagrams and A/FD for the District of Columbia will be prompted to download this update as well.
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An update to ForeFlight Mobile – version 4.8 – is available for download in iTunes App Store. This release introduces three big new things: a fresh new design for the iPhone, background downloading support for database and charts, and support for the Military Flight Bag Procedures Database format, enabling pilots who defend our freedom to load worldwide Department of Defense terminal procedures directly into ForeFlight Mobile.
ForeFlight Mobile for iPhone, Reinvented
No question the iPad had changed aviation and is one of the most quickly adopted technologies to hit the cockpit. But the iPhone remains very popular and accounts for a high percentage of the devices that ForeFlighters use on a daily basis. The phone is always with you and is great for quick weather lookups, drafting a flight plan, searching for airport information, and filing before blasting off.
ForeFlight’s roots are in the iPhone. We released the first aviation app available in iTunes App Store in July of 2008 and have continued to refine the iPhone version ever since. With this latest release, we challenged ourselves to deliver a user experience that would make moving between different views within the application faster, more fluid, and require fewer touches of the screen. We also wanted to make sure that information – like recent airports, weather, flight plans, planned routes, and recent searches – were accessible at a glance. The result is a new user interface for iPhone we call “Slider”. It is a joy to use and will make assessing conditions and planning flights faster than ever before.
Background Downloading
The latest release introduces background downloading. What this means is that you can start a download of plates and charts, switch to another app, and ForeFlight Mobile will continue to download in the background. When complete, if your iPad is still awake, iOS will display a notification badge alerting you that downloads are complete. This is a huge improvement to the download process – previously, you had to keep ForeFlight running on your iPad while a download was completing.
Note that sometimes the operating system will interrupt a background download after a while, depending on what other apps are running, how much data is being downloaded, or if the iPad loses WiFi connectivity. If this happens, ForeFlight will display an alert indicating that downloads were interrupted.
Military Flight Bag Support
ForeFlight 4.8 also introduces Military Flight Bag (MFB) support. Pilots flying for the armed forces and certain federal / government agencies now have the ability to side-load a worldwide terminal procedures database directly into ForeFlight Mobile. The first specification supported by ForeFlight Mobile is the Military Flight Bag Procedures Database format (MFB PDB). This specification, which we hope will be adopted by other app makers in the future, allows pilots who have access to DOD Digital Flight Information Publications to view those terminal procedures in ForeFlight Mobile. By creating an set of open standards, we hope to help the Military achieve cost reduction goals by reducing the amount of paper they shuffle around every 28 days.
More information about our Military Flight Bag support is available at http://www.foreflight.com/military. The new features are free to use, but require a valid and verified .mil or .gov email address.
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Today we added several portions of the Federal Aviation Regulations to our Documents Catalog for iPad users. These sections of the FARs are now available for your reference:
To download these documents, tap the Catalog button inside the Documents tab of ForeFlight Mobile. Select the FAA Catalog and scroll to the Federal Aviation Regulations section.
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A new airport and navigation database is available for download for the Jan 10 – Feb 7, 2013 period. This update includes new A/FD information for Alaska, KMCC in California, KSUS in Missouri and KJFK, KLGA, and KISP in New York. This update also includes a new thumbnail diagram for KBRD in Minnesota and removes an outdated thumbnail diagram for KGLE in Texas.
All customers will be prompted to download this airport and navigation database update inside of ForeFlight Mobile. Customers who have selected Taxi Diagrams and A/FD for Alaska, California, Missouri, New York or Texas will be prompted to download these as well.
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Last year we launched a cloud documents solution for corporate flight departments. We’re now ready to roll that out to all ForeFlight customers. With a Dropbox account, you can save documents in the cloud and access them within the Documents view in ForeFlight. Enjoy!
ForeFlight Documents is the simple, speedy way to store documents in the cloud, access them in ForeFlight Mobile for iPad, and keep them in sync. ForeFlight Documents lets you publish and update documents with a simple drag-and-drop. ForeFlight Documents gives you our your flight department secure mobile device document management via the cloud, integrated right into the easy-to-use Documents view.
To keep things fast and simple, we integrate with Dropbox for managing your document files. Dropbox is an inexpensive service that lets you securely manage and share files. The basic free Dropbox service includes 2GB of storage, which is sufficient for individuals, most flight departments, and even some airlines. Additional storage can be purchased directly from Dropbox.
After adding ForeFlight Documents to your subscription, you are prompted to create a Dropbox account for your personal or flight department account (or to link your current Dropbox account if you have one). For easiest access, install the Dropbox desktop client on your personal computer or a designated “management” computer. Then simply drag-and-drop documents (PDFs or images, such as .jpg, .png, .gif) into the ForeFlight folder in your Dropbox. You can also upload documents using the Dropbox website uploader.
Within minutes, our servers securely publish the catalog of your documents to everyone on your ForeFlight subscription. Your pilots can then download the documents directly to ForeFlight Mobile on their iPads.
Updates to existing documents are just as easy. Simply update the document in your Dropbox folder, and all of your pilots will be prompted to download an update on their iPad inside ForeFlight Mobile.
ForeFlight Documents is included with ForeFlight USA Pro or ForeFlight Canada subscriptions.
If you already have a ForeFlight Pro or ForeFlight Canada account, start taking advantage of ForeFlight Documents today by signing intohttps://www.foreflight.com/manage and clicking on the Documents tab.
ForeFlight Basic customers can upgrade their subscription to ForeFlight Pro to add Documents as well as TrueTaxi and TruePlates features by signing into your account athttps://www.foreflight.com/manage, click “Subscribe”, and then “Upgrade my Plan”. Check “Pro” under Features and complete your purchase.
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Data updates are now available to download for the Jan 10 – Feb 7, 2013 and Jan 10 – Mar 7 periods:
All customers will be prompted to download these updates inside of ForeFlight Mobile.
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