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  • Daily/Hourly Forecasts, Parachute Jump Areas, and more in ForeFlight 12.11

    ForeFlight 12.11 brings Daily/Hourly Forecasts for an all-purpose look at the weather, Parachute Jump Areas and Airport Hotspot details on the Aeronautical Map, and more. Daily/Hourly Forecasts Get a detailed […]

  • G-AIRMETs in ForeFlight

    In 2008 the FAA’s Aviation Weather Center began phasing out AIRMETs (Airman’s Meteorological Information) in favor of G-AIRMETs (Graphical AIRMETs). In anticipation of the switch to exclusively using G-AIRMETs, ForeFlight […]

  • Weather in Profile View, Overheat Alerts, and More in ForeFlight’s 12.6 Release.

    ForeFlight 12.6 includes weather in Profile View, iPad/iPhone Overheat Alerts, additional Internet Traffic details, and more. Weather in Profile view ForeFlight’s Profile View includes selectable Icing and Turbulence forecast layers, […]

  • ForeFlight Adds New Forecast Graphics to Imagery View

    We recently added two new collections of graphical forecasts to the Imagery view on mobile and web: Graphical Aviation Forecasts for cloud cover and surface conditions, and Ceiling and Visibility […]

  • A Closer Look at Global Icing, Turbulence, and Surface Analysis Map Layers

    Available with ForeFlight Mobile 9.4, five new weather layers bring global Icing, Turbulence and surface pressure data to the map, with detailed Surface Analysis available to much of North America. […]

  • 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 […]

  • True Colors of IR Satellite

    Now in ForeFlight Mobile 8.3, you have a choice between one of two satellite layers on the ForeFlight Map view. The legacy satellite layer was renamed to Enhanced Satellite and the new layer […]

  • ‘Tis the season for airframe ice

    Now that cold air has infiltrated a good portion of North America, it’s time to review one important aspect of airframe icing, namely, precipitation type. The three basic wintry precipitation […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]