We’re proud to announce ForeFlight Mobile v2.4, now available in the iPhone App Store. This is the latest update to our flagship app, and it’s a big one!
- Newly designed METAR view that makes viewing encoded, decoded, and nearby METARs easier; METARs are now viewable when offline.
- Newly designed TAF view that elegantly organizes translations and highlights the current forecast period. TAFs are now viewable when offline.
- Newly designed Winds Aloft view that elegantly organizes wind and temperature data and highlights the current forecast. Winds Aloft are now viewable when offline.
- New personal preference settings that lets you select units for wind speed, temperature, pressure, and visibility. Great for international customers or customers that prefer viewing temperature in Fahrenheit.
- New personal preference setting to hide old TAF translations.
- New feature that saves the last airport displayed and reloads that airport the next time you restart ForeFlight.
- Weather for your recently viewed and favorite airports is downloaded and stored on device automatically.
- New trip estimator that accepts airport identifiers, ground speed, and fuel burn and computes ETE, burn, total distance, leg distance, leg ETE, and leg fuel burn; displays leg and trip details in a flight log view that includes current flight rules for each stop.
- Enhanced search interface that accepts airport identifiers, ground speed, and fuel burn and estimates trip details.
- New routes view that provides access to previously estimated trips when offline.
- Updated recents and favorites views to show the current altimeter setting and temperature/dewpoint for each airport, when available.
- New TFR imagery collection in the Images catalog
- New “help bubbles” that show how to use the Search view
- DUATS account settings (optional) – use your own DUATS account for filing flight plans
- Greatly improved performance
- Many bug fixes, including a common flight plan filing form crash bug
Already a user? Like all v2.x releases, this is a free update. Learn how to update the app on your iPhone.
Ready to come on board? ForeFlight Mobile v2.4 is available in the iPhone App Store for $74.99.
We couldn’t be more proud of ForeFlight Mobile! It took months of development and testing to get every detail right, but we’re confident our users will enjoy the new standard in Preflight Intelligence™.
