ForeFlight 11.4 includes the safety-enhancing Takeoff & Landing Performance feature for calculating critical distance and speed metrics for both takeoff and landing, a new way to share flights with other pilots, updates to ForeFlight’s Logbook and Navlog features, and more.
Takeoff & Landing Performance
Takeoff & Landing Performance is a powerful flight planning capability that provides safety-enhancing runway performance calculations for over 200 piston and single-engine turboprop aircraft. Takeoff & Landing Performance incorporates published performance data and current or forecast conditions to calculate important flight metrics and ensure they are within the aircraft’s and runway’s limits. Watch the embedded video below or check out this in-depth walkthrough to learn more about the feature. Takeoff & Landing Performance is included in ForeFlight Performance subscription plans.
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Flight Sharing
Share planned and filed flight plans with others via Airdrop, email, or text directly from the Flights view to enable better coordination with fellow pilots and crew.
To share a flight, tap the Send To button in the top-right corner of the Flights view and tap Share Flight. Sharing a flight with someone else adds a read-only version of the flight to their Flights list with a label indicating who shared it. The shared flight stays up to date with any changes you make to the original on your device as long as an internet connection is available.
Because shared flights are tied to the originals, the recipient can’t change any of the flight’s details, but they can view its Navlog and Briefing, load the flight onto the Maps view using the Send To button, or create a copy of the flight that they can edit on their device. Copying a flight will duplicate all of the original flight’s details except for the original aircraft and performance profile, which will instead use your account’s default aircraft and performance profile.
Flights can only be shared once, so you can’t share a flight that was shared with you, but you can share a copy of the flight or ask the owner of the shared flight to share it with someone else. If you try to delete a flight that you’ve shared with others, ForeFlight will warn you that doing so will also delete the flight for everyone you’ve shared it with. Conversely, deleting a flight that was shared with you won’t have any effect on the original or other recipients of the shared flight.
Smart Logbook Photos
ForeFlight can now automatically associate pictures and screenshots you took during a flight with that flight’s logbook entry, greatly simplifying the task of adding photos to a new entry. This feature requires ForeFlight to have access to your photos, so choose to allow when prompted, or change the access level in your iOS device’s settings.
When you create a new logbook entry from a recorded track log, or when ForeFlight automatically creates a draft entry after a flight, photos and screenshots that you took during the flight appear in the Flight Photos section as suggestions, allowing you to select the ones you want to keep and discard the rest.
If you sync your photos to iCloud then photos taken on other devices will appear as suggestions in addition to any photos you took with that device, allowing you to easily add all relevant photos at the same time. Once added to an entry, photos are uploaded to ForeFlight’s Sync system so you can view them on any of your devices.
This feature only works if the logbook entry was created from a track log so make sure to turn on automatic Track Log/Logbook draft creation in More > Logbook > Settings > Draft Entry Creation, or manually send the track logs to the Logbook.
Learn more about Logbook here.
Logbook Night Vision Goggles Support
Logbook also now supports night vision goggles (NVG) currency tracking for both rotorcraft and airplane pilots, with separate currency trackers for NVG operations with and without passengers. Add the new currency trackers using the Add Currency Summary button on Logbook’s overview page.
The new Night Vision Goggles section of each logbook entry allows you to log total NVG time and number of NVG operations, or add an NVG Proficiency tag to the entry after a checkride.
In Logbook > Settings > Configure Fields, make sure the “Night Vision Goggles” switch is turned on so that you can track of your NVG time in each Logbook entry. If you don’t use night vision goggles, toggle the switch off and the field won’t show up in logbook entries.
Enhanced Navlog
The Flights view’s detailed Navlog now includes more information and capabilities to help you better prepare for and conduct every flight. The biggest additions to the Navlog include airport diagrams for departure and destination airports when available, average fuel flow per hour in the Summary & Times table (requires a Performance subscription plan), a new “Signature” row in the notes section, and other minor changes to the Summary & Times table.
Unsupported SID/STAR Legs Use Dotted Route Line
ForeFlight will now use a dotted line style for any leg of a SID or STAR that it can’t properly depict in the displayed route, including track, course, or heading from a fix to an altitude, track from a fix for a certain distance, course or heading to a radial or intercept, arc to a fix, etc.
These route style changes replace the warning dialog that previously advised you to check the plate/chart for full info when adding unsupported legs to a route.
Expanded European Coverage
All European subscribers can now download AIPs for Spain and Portugal, which include IFR and VFR procedure charts, airport diagrams, and documents. Jeppesen’s IFR and VFR aeronautical data is included for both countries.
The DFS Visual 500 Charts covering Spain and Portugal are also available as a combined add-on to enhance your visual flying.
