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  • ForeFlight Supports Intra-Canada and Cross-Border VFR Flight Plan Filing

    UPDATE: ForeFlight supports filing VFR flight plans between Canada and the US in either direction. VFR flight plans should be opened in the country of departure and closed in the destination country. For a Canada-to-US flight, close your flight plan by calling 1-800-WXBRIEF or through the Tower. For a US-to-Canada VFR flight, close your flight plan…

  • ForeFlight Establishes TFR Desk to Ensure Accurate Depiction of Graphical TFR Information

    We are excited to share that ForeFlight’s development team recently deployed technology that can recognize missing or corrupted graphical TFRs that are delivered via the NOTAM system. The new tool alerts ForeFlight’s TFR Desk team members, who then take immediate action to correct the TFR graphic and distribute it quickly to ForeFlight customers. As a…

  • ForeFlight Goes Vertical at Heli-Expo

    Before the horses come to town, there will be helicopters! For the first time HAI Heli-Expo is coming to Louisville, Kentucky and Team ForeFlight will be on hand in Booth 6736 to demonstrate all the latest features that help your pilots fly safer and your flight department stay in sync. ForeFlight’s hazard awareness features make it…

  • Garmin Unveils New ForeFlight-Compatible ADS-B Transponders

    Garmin announced today the release of two new options to help you meet the 2020 ADS-B Out mandate. The GTX 345 and GTX 335 all-in-one transponders are compatible with ForeFlight and, depending on the model you choose, wirelessly deliver (via Bluetooth) FIS-B weather, ADS-B traffic, GPS position, and attitude information to your mobile device. We…

  • All FBOs Check-in with ForeFlight at 2016 NBAA S&D Conference

    Team ForeFlight will be on hand at the 2016 NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference this week—stop by and visit with Jamie and Linda in Booth #100. Products on demonstration include ForeFlight’s FBO Directory, ForeFlight Web (our web-based flight planning platform), and JetFuelX (a planning tool that helps operators manage contract fuel memberships). Corporate, fractional, and…

  • ForeFlight Acquires JetFuelX

    We are thrilled to announce this exciting addition to ForeFlight. JetFuelX is a free web-based fuel card management service that makes it easy for owners and operators of turbine aircraft to save money by quickly finding the lowest prices available from their multiple jet fuel discount program memberships. JetFuelX is designed to help everyone from…

  • ForeFlight is Ready for iPad Pro

    Apple shipped the new iPad Pro this week and our dev team is already logging time with it in the cockpit. So far we are impressed with its performance. We also released ForeFlight 7.4 this week which is compatible with the new hardware. We designed the 7.4 release to take advantage of the expanded screen…

  • ForeFlight Partners with Gogo on Inflight Connectivity

    We are excited to announce our partnership with Gogo to make ForeFlight Mobile available to customers using Gogo’s ATG 1000 inflight connectivity system beginning in December 2015. ForeFlight customers on aircraft equipped with the ATG 1000 can take advantage of the app’s full range of real-time information inflight, including up to the minute weather, Flight Notifications,…

  • Team ForeFlight Gearing Up For FLYING Aviation Expo

    This week Team ForeFlight heads to the second annual FLYING Aviation Expo in Palm Springs, California. Janessa and Thomas will be on hand in the ForeFlight booth (#715), ready to demonstrate all of the latest ForeFlight features, offer tips and tricks to make you a ForeFlight super-user, and answer any how-to questions you may have. Thomas is presenting our…

  • Able Flight Delivers Our Most Memorable Oshkosh Moment

    Amid the wall-to-wall schedule of activities at Oshkosh, the most memorable moment for us was the Able Flight Wing Pinning Ceremony. ForeFlight proudly sponsors flight training scholarships for Able Flight, a non-profit organization that enables people with disabilities to challenge themselves through flight and aviation career training. Able Flight pilots achieve aviation goals some might…