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Check out what ForeFlight Co-Founder Tyson Weihs says about advancing your education. Technology is key to making the pilot’s flight easier, and ForeFlight does that. See what other aviation career opportunities are available. Watch our previous Career Spotlight with Tom Miller, UAS research pilot. Browse current aviation job listings to find new career opportunities here. […]

Synthetic vision is coming to ForeFlight Mobile, and from the early screenshots posted on the app maker’s website the upgrade looks like it will be well worth the extra $25 a year the upgrade will cost subscribers. The SVS update, set for release around the first of the year as part of ForeFlight Mobile Version […]

The leading iOS app, ForeFlight, continues to get cool new features, and the latest ones up the ante considerably, making ForeFlight the most dynamic app available on any platform. In this case, “dynamic” means an app that is not only hard hitting but also constantly updating as you go. The first new feature, called Flight […]

Aviation software producer ForeFlight announced at the Flying Aviation Expo in Palm Springs, California, that it is in the final Apple review phase for its latest software update, which will bring additional capabilities to the already feature-packed software. ForeFlight Version 6.4 will introduce performance preflight planning capabilities, allowing the user to estimate taxi and takeoff, […]

Remember when Garmin first came out with their GNS 430? What a wonderful list of features it had. But, even after a few years in service, it turned out that many pilots were intimidated by the sophisticated routing capability and few ventured beyond using direct-to for navigation.

Marking the sixth major software update of the year, ForeFlight has introduced some great new features to the latest version of its Mobile flight app that received rave reviews from pilots at AirVenture last week — before the update was even available. The newest version, ForeFlight Mobile 5.3, can now overlay approach plates and airport […]

Users of aviation’s most popular flight planning and support app now have the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the software through a new training course from Sporty’s. Sporty’s ForeFlight training program shows users how to use the app through step-by-step instructions that cover everything from how to download ForeFlight to how to […]

Winner of a Flying Editors’ Choice Award last year, the Appareo Stratus portable battery-powered ADS-B receiver, designed to integrate seamlessly with ForeFlight Mobile Pro, is no longer king. A new portable receiver, from the same award-winning trio, has taken its place. The new box, called somewhat confusingly the Stratus, combines ADS-B with weather and traffic […]

Pilots are singing the praises of ForeFlight’s latest Version 5.0 update of its mobile charting app for the iPad — and after flying with the updated software, we have to agree that it’s great. The biggest change is the addition of terrain and obstacle warnings through the Hazard Advisor feature. The add-on highlights hazardous terrain […]

It was big news when ForeFlight recently added native support for the X-Plane PC simulator allowing armchair pilots to use their iPads with the sim software. This was a great enhancement – unless you happened to fly with Microsoft’s Flight Simulator X. Now, a pilot with a background in software development has created a simple […]