Our latest release features FPL Drawer Enhancements, Support for Civil Twilight, New Layers in Profile View, Additional Hazard Altitude Options, New VFR Add-On Charts, Graphical Weight & Balance, and New Runway Analysis Aircraft Support.
FPL Drawer Enhancements
A new strip at the bottom of the FPL drawer gives you an improved view of key flight information, with a touch control to easily resize the FPL view vertically.
This flight information strip is also now visible in the Navlog Profile View, just like in the Edit tab.
Additionally, the Layer Selector and Settings in Profile View have been relocated to the top-right corner for more convenient access, and the Profile View ruler has been refined for smoother use.
These enhancements streamline your workflow, making it easier to access vital information and adjust your view on the go.
Support for Civil Twilight
Accurately log day and night hours using enhanced solar data, including morning civil twilight, sunrise, sunset, and evening civil twilight for any airport worldwide.
This feature helps you stay compliant with FAA night flight regulations by offering a precise measurement based on latitude and longitude, determining when the sun is 6° below the horizon. You can view solar data for the current day and the next three days, accessing a total of four days of information.
To access solar data, tap the chevron next to the sunrise/sunset times in Airport Details or navigate to Info > Details > Solar Information. Solar Information is available wherever airport details are provided within ForeFlight, ensuring you have accurate data at your fingertips.
New Layers in Profile View
Enhance your flight planning with new headwind/tailwind and estimated ground speed layers in Profile View, offering precise altitude insights and timely route analysis.
By combining aircraft performance data with headwind/tailwind information, these layers provide a quick visual assessment: green for favorable conditions, while gray shows less favorable ones.
Leveraging the same packed winds aloft data as the Dynamic Winds and Temperatures layers, these new layers offer time-differentiated forecasts along your route.
For deeper insights, tap and hold in the Profile View to see additional details as you scrub along the route.
Available with Performance Plus subscription plans.
Additional Hazard Altitude Options
New 100’ and 500’ Hazard Altitude options are now available for low-altitude flying.
Access these options by navigating to Map Settings > Hazards > Hazard Altitudes > Low: 100’ / 500’.
New VFR Add-On Charts
Customers in North Africa and Japan can now add VFR charts from Rogers Data and AIS to any subscription that includes the corresponding ForeFlight regions.
New Rogers Data VFR charts for North Africa East and North Africa West are available for customers with the Africa region as part of their ForeFlight subscription. Coverage includes the northern Middle East up to Syria.
New AIS Japan VFR charts, provided by Airman’s Information Service Ltd., are available for customers with the Asia/Pacific region as part of their ForeFlight subscription. These charts offer detailed coverage in three scales: 1:500k for full country coverage, 1:250k for specific parts of the country, and 1:100k for the Tokyo area. The appropriate scale will automatically display based on your zoom level, or you can manually switch between them using the Map Touch Action feature.
Graphical Weight & Balance
Enhance your weight and balance planning with a visual representation of your aircraft’s cabin layout, allowing you to easily input passenger and payload details with just a tap. To set up Graphical W&B, navigate to the Aircraft tab on ForeFlight Web and configure it for each of your aircraft profiles.
Select an aircraft in ForeFlight Web, scroll to the Weight and Balance section, and either edit an existing profile or create a new one. You’ll be able to view and modify an interactive Aircraft Interior, adjust the seating arrangement, and save your changes.
Once you’ve configured a Graphical Weight and Balance profile on ForeFlight Web, you can seamlessly update passenger and payload details directly within the Flights view in ForeFlight Mobile.
Available with ForeFlight Performance plans and above.
New Runway Analysis Aircraft Support
ForeFlight’s advanced Runway Analysis product for turbine aircraft now supports the Piper M700, Cessna Citation 550B Bravo, and Cessna Citation 560 V.
