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  • Aging Surface Observations

    One of the more common concerns raised by ForeFlight customers is the age of surface observations or METARs shown within the app. They often wonder why the age of a METAR can be 60 or more minutes old in some cases. To understand why this occurs, let’s discuss how routine surface observations are taken throughout the world. If you…

  • ForeFlight Documents Deliver FAR More Value To Flight Departments

    ForeFlight’s built-in Documents catalog provides you with our complete library of always-current ForeFlight user guides, as well as an extensive library of up-to-date publications issued by the FAA. Chart supplements and legends, FAA handbooks, and Federal Aviation Regulations are all at your fingertips and included with your ForeFlight subscription. We recently expanded ForeFlight Documents to…

  • Why Use Convective Outlooks?

    Perhaps one of the most underutilized weather products shown on the ForeFlight Map view are the yellow-shaded polygons called convective outlooks. On any given eight-hour shift, they are issued hourly by a highly trained meteorologist at the Aviation Weather Center (AWC) in Kansas City. In fact, convective SIGMETs shown by a red-shaded polygon are also issued by this same forecaster.…

  • ForeFlight Mobile 8.1.1 Available On the App Store

    ForeFlight 8.1.1 corrects a minor issue affecting the display of SXAR1 radar data sent to ForeFlight, as well as issues with the dates shown on Endorsement signatures in Logbook. As always, feel free to email team@foreflight.com if you have any questions.

  • SiriusXM Aviation Weather and Logbook Currency Details in ForeFlight 8.1

    With ForeFlight 8.1 we introduce support for SiriusXM’s powerful SXAR1 Aviation Weather Receiver, which supplies ForeFlight with high resolution radar with storm cell attributes and tracks, lightning, METARs, TAFs, AIR/SIGMETs, TFRs, and more. In addition, more of your logbook data is now in easy reach with Currency Details and access to Custom Field data in…

  • 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 Mobile 8.0.3 Available on the App Store

    This minor release resolves a bug affecting low-memory devices that caused the app to periodically exit while connected to some external devices. Apple has announced that it plans to release iOS 10 to the public on Tuesday, September 13th. We continue to conduct thorough testing on iOS 10 to ensure full compatibility with ForeFlight. Please…

  • ForeFlight Mobile 8.0.2 Available On The App Store

    ForeFlight 8.0.2 is a minor release that delivers a refinement in the Airports view to include more nearby weather stations, as well as some fixes in preparation for iOS 10 compatibility. Apple has announced that it plans to release iOS 10 to the public on Tuesday, September 13th. We continue to conduct thorough testing on…

  • Apple iOS 10 and ForeFlight

    UPDATE September 26, 2016: ForeFlight 8.1, now available on the App Store, is all-clear for use with Apple iOS 10.0.2. We appreciate your patience during the testing process and hope you enjoy the new features in Apple’s biggest iOS release yet. ORIGINAL POST September 9, 2016: Apple released iOS 10 to the public on Tuesday, September 13th.…

  • Customer Notice: Guidance on a bug in ForeFlight 8

    UPDATE September 2, 2016: ForeFlight version 8.0.1 is now available on the App Store, a minor release that addresses a bug that appeared in 8.0 involving TFR Alerts when connected to a Baron Mobile Link XM weather receiver. Although the majority of our customers are not affected by this, we recommend that all customers upgrade…