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ForeFlight and Jeppesen Announce Strategic Alliance
We are thrilled and honored to announce this alliance with Jeppesen. It is truly a partnership with purpose that will deliver better solutions for customers, and faster than either company could accomplish on its own. The full media release is available below. JEPPESEN AND FOREFLIGHT FORM ALLIANCE TO DELIVER INDUSTRY LEADING APPS AND FLIGHT INFORMATION…
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Surface Wind Analysis Now Available with SiriusXM
In ForeFlight Mobile 9.0 we’ve added a high resolution surface wind analysis to the list of map layers you can display through the SiriusXM satellite weather broadcast. This new product includes both windspeed and direction presented as wind barbs similar to the winds aloft layer. Tapping on any wind barb will show the specific details. Two surface wind layers? Yes, there…
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Graphical Forecasts for Aviation (GFA) will become operational in April
Effective April 13, 2017, the experimental Graphical Forecasts for Aviation (GFA) produced by the NWS Aviation Weather Center (AWC) will transition to operational status. As you may have heard, the GFA was created in response to a formal request by the FAA to discontinue production of the textual Area Forecasts (FA). According to the NWS headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, “the requirements for…
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ForeFlight 8.2.3 Now Available on the App Store
ForeFlight version 8.2.3 corrects an issue with tail number checking that blocked filing with aircraft profiles set up using call signs rather than N-numbers. As always, we’re on frequency at team@foreflight.com if you experience any issues with the update. ForeFlight 8.2 includes more data for Aeronautical Maps, new in-flight alerts that keep you aware on the…
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Don’t Let Satellite Weather Get You Down
The radar depictions you see from the SiriusXM broadcast are highly filtered to provide only real precipitation areas. Ground clutter, anomalous propagation, birds, insects and such are carefully removed to provide the cleanest and most representative image. But like any process, there will be times where non-precipitation returns do not get filtered out. More importantly,…