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ForeFlight’s Latest Update Includes New Hold Advisor Feature

Foreflight’s most recent 2021 update adds Hold Advisor and Augmented Procedures. ForeFlight
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Key Takeaways:

  • ForeFlight's Summer 2021 update (version 13.5) introduces new features designed to enhance aviation safety and simplify complex IFR flying tasks.
  • The new Hold Advisor feature automates IFR hold pattern entries, while Augmented Procedures helps pilots quickly find correct approach minimums to reduce errors.
  • The Runway Analysis tool has expanded support for various jet aircraft models and now visually displays engine-out procedures (EOPs) directly on a preview map, simplifying takeoff decision-making.
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With their Summer 2021 update to version 13.5, ForeFlight has added several new features that will enhance safety while also making one of IFR flying’s most demanding tasks easier. The app has also added support for several jet makes and models to their Runway Analysis product, including the Bombardier Global 5000, Global Express, Global XRS, Learjet 60R, and Learjet 70, the Gulfstream GVII-G500, and the Embraer Phenom 300 and 300E.

Dan Pimentel

Dan Pimentel is an instrument-rated private pilot and former airplane owner who has been flying since 1996. As an aviation journalist and photographer, he has covered all aspects of the general and business aviation communities for a long list of major aviation magazines, newspapers and websites. He has never met a flying machine that he didn’t like, and has written about his love of aviation for years on his Airplanista blog. For 10 years until 2019, he hosted the popular ‘Oshbash’ social media meetup events at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.

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