Category: Announcements/News

Today we launched the ForeFlight Educational Licensing Program (“ELP”), a volume licensing program for accredited aviation programs. This new program provides institutions the ability to offer ForeFlight services at a discount to their faculty and students. We designed the program with the aviation program of Kansas State University Salina and in the process built a…

Update (November 9): We are no longer accepting applications for this position. We’re looking for a pilot to join our customer support team. You’ll provide fast, friendly support to ForeFlight users around the world. This is a part-time position (~20 hours per week) with a focus on evening hours (~5pm – 9pm CDT) and 1…

Steve Jobs passed today. We at ForeFlight are saddened by the news. We are forever grateful for the things he and Apple have created. Their products have been a part of our lives for so long as we remember. As the story was told to us, shortly after the iPad launched a friend of ForeFlight…

We frequently get requests for materials in support of presentations customers or instructors are making to clients or fellow pilots. Below are links to documents we assembled to help out.  Listed below are links to a simple presentation in two formats (PDF and MOV) and helpful proficiency and operating checklists. ForeFlight Mobile Presentation (.mov format)…

We had the privilege of attending EAA’s Young Eagles awards dinner last Tuesday at AirVenture 2011 as new contributors to the EAA Young Eagles program. The event honors those EAA members who give their time, talent, and tender to support Young Eagles. Jeff Skiles and Sully Sullenberger presided. The event was emotional and heart warming.…

We frequently receive calls from operator customers, flight operations managers, and chief pilots (Part 91K, Part 135, and Part 121) seeking to get approval to use iPads in the cockpit as a replacement for paper charts. What we have learned is that there is still a lot of confusion about what is required to adopt…

Update: we have finished this round of hiring, and these positions are no longer available.  Thanks for all of the interest! The ForeFlight team is growing!  We’re looking for an iOS Developer, a Lead Web Applications Developer and a Lead Data Developer to help us create the next generation of mobile aviation applications. iOS Developer ForeFlight…

Starting at 3:01pm CST today, our team@foreflight.com address intermittently stopped receiving inbound email.  We’ve re-routed email and support responses are flowing again.  When anything is amiss with our team@foreflight.com inbox, we hop to. We use Google Apps (Gmail) to host our ForeFlight mailboxes, so it seemed a little odd that we would be experiencing issues…

Apple recently released it’s 2010 Rewind lists, which rank the top free and paid applications. We’re excited, thankful, and grateful to all ForeFlighters for pushing ForeFlight HD to the top spot in the weather category for iPad apps. We look forward to a great 2011 and will start the year with some pretty killer new…