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We’ve receive some reports that ForeFlight File! is too convenient.  A couple of customers have  reported filing flight plans while listening to the homily at church.  While the short-term benefits of such convenience may be obvious, the long-term consequences are unknown.  So, proceed with caution when deciding whether to pay attention in church on Sunday…

Release Notes This update introduces a few minor enhancements and one big new feature that we elaborate on below. Minor enhancements include: A pretty new weather page that includes more US weather images, including icing. Display of filed altitudes and the frequency of filed routes on the route details page. Descriptions underneath weather image tiles,…

Today marks a new maintenance release of Desktop Edition! The changes include: Entire airport database updated using Dec 2007 FAA data Double the number of airports – now the total exceeds 8500 airports! Keep in mind that many of the new airports are small ones that do not report METARs, but ForeFlight will still show…

Tonight’s latest release includes quite a few valuable improvements to ForeFlight iPhone Edition: The search form now allows searching by zip code. Speaking of the search form – it is now available from any page! Just tap the little magnifying glass icon to reveal the search field. Based on user feedback we have added a…

Apple made a welcomed announcement today: they will be releasing an iPhone software development kit (SDK) in February! An SDK for iPhone is very exciting news. This means that we can deliver you a version of ForeFlight you can load right onto your home screen. Then, you can access ForeFlight wherever you are!

Tonight’s release introduces some goodies that help us further our goal of being the fastest, most intuitive, and most informative mobile pilot companion on the market: We made it even simpler to ‘toggle’ between weather information and airport information once you’ve loaded an airport. We load this information in a way that eliminates the time…

Tonight’s software update introduces two features we’re pretty excited about: zooming radar images and Ramp Check! The next time you visit an airport weather page, you’ll see little buttons on the right hand side of the “Current Radar” section heading that say “12”, “24”, “48”, and “96”. Clicking on one of the buttons will change…

Greg Crouchley is a passionate student pilot. After reading an article about Light Sport Aircraft in the April 2006 issue of Popular Mechanics, Greg packed up some gear and headed off to a flight school to get his license. Upon his return and finding no aircraft to rent in his home state of Rhode Island,…

If you pull up “Current and Forecast” weather for an airport or visit a weather station page, you will now see a high-resolution, 50nm-wide looping doppler radar image centered on the airport or weather station. The images look fantastic on the iPhone. Here is a screenshot: