Our July Release includes ForeFlight on Apple Watch, Synthetic Vision enhancements, terrain/obstacle strikes in Profile View, and new Runway Analysis aircraft support.
ForeFlight on Apple Watch
Experience the convenience of ForeFlight at the flip of your wrist with quick access to local weather and airport information for preflight planning and more!
ForeFlight is supported on Apple watchOS version 9.4, and will automatically appear on your Apple Watch after updating to ForeFlight 15.7 or above unless your settings require you to install apps manually. You can view the complete list of watch apps in your Watch app on your iPhone and install from there.
Complications
Add the ForeFlight app icon to your Apple Watch face for easy access to local weather, nearby airports, and more with a single tap, or check current local conditions, temperature, and winds on your favorite Watch face. Easily configure the complications on any Watch face within your iPhone’s Watch app.
Home Screen
The ForeFlight Apple Watch home screen provides a quick overview of current weather conditions locally, at your top two Favorite airports, your two most Recent airports, and the nearest airport to you. You can also manually search for any airport by identifier using the Search bar at the bottom of the home screen.
Local Weather
The Local Weather page provides an overview of winds, sky cover, pressure, humidity, temp/dewpoint, and sunrise/sunset times at your location. Swipe left to view the hourly forecast, and swipe left again to find the 10-day forecast, with forecast flight category throughout each day represented by the colored vertical line.
Airports
Find your Favorite and Recent Airports below the Local Weather section. Tap into any airport for an overview of the weather, including the latest METAR, TAF, MOS, and Daily/Hourly Forecast, as well as frequencies, runway information, and NOTAMs.
Visit ForeFlight Apple Watch Support for questions or help with ForeFlight on Apple Watch.
Synthetic Vision Obstacle Enhancements
Synthetic Vision now includes 3D obstacles with nighttime lighting, providing a more realistic depiction to help you stay aware of your position and surroundings.
To access Synthetic Vision, tap the attitude indicator button in the Maps view menu bar.
Synthetic Vision uses three different shape styles to display obstacles: buildings, towers, and windmills.
Synthetic Vision also now shades obstacles progressively when they fall within your set Hazard Altitudes, as opposed to coloring them entirely red or yellow, providing a more useful indication of your altitude relative to them.
When altitude is gained and obstacles leave your hazard range, the opacity is reduced by 50% instead of completely fading out to offer a more detailed perspective at varying altitudes.
Terrain/Obstacle Strikes in Profile View
Profile View now provides a cleaner and more useful indication of where your route intersects terrain and obstacles by marking every strike with X-shaped icons, and also reduces visual clutter by no longer shading the remainder of your route after the first strike with red hash marks.
Profile View depicts terrain/obstacle strikes this way in both the default Route view showing your entire route, as well as the inflight Aircraft view showing terrain and obstacles along your present course at any point. You can switch between these views during a flight using the buttons in the top-left corner of Profile View.
Tap the settings gear along the bottom of Profile View to access the Hazard Settings menu and change the size of the profile corridor analyzed by Profile View.
New Runway Analysis Aircraft Support
ForeFlight’s advanced Runway Analysis product for turbine aircraft now supports the Textron King Air 350ER, Citation J1+, and Citation Longitude C700.
