Flight Planning

Stack the deck in your favor with some simple planning, preflight briefing, and by using a four-part departure framework.

The update includes enhanced weight and balance integrated into flight plans and hazard avoidance integration. Military subscribers have additional features available to them.

Usually, when a pilot sits down to flight plan a cross-country trip of 2,100 nm from one coast of the U.S. to the other, there is a Cirrus SR22 or Pilatus PC-12 involved. If that planned route takes you from Naples, Florida, to Riverside, California, over several days and through all sorts of weather, flying […]

When weather or other circumstances force a tough choice, safety should always win over convenience.

Alteration gives more information and a modern meaning for a common aviation abbreviation.

ForeFlight has integrated several key features into a single flight planning and in-flight source for business aviation operators. The dispatch, runway analysis, and weight and balance functions—among other tools—can be shared across a flight department. ForeFlight’s executive vice president of sales and marketing Stephen Newman and marketing manager Sam Taylor gave FLYING a briefing on […]

Aircraft Performance Group (APG) revealed its latest aviation software product for business aviation—iPreFlight Genesis Pro—at the National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE). The product was developed through a collaborative effort between APG, Seattle Avionics, and RocketRoute. “APG’s runway performance system is the industry leader in business aviation. Now, with global route […]

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, […]

I became a private pilot 20 years ago, not long after my 19th birthday. Like every new pilot, I couldn’t wait to take my first passenger for a ride. The day after the check ride, I called one of my best college friends and invited him to the airport for a sightseeing flight in a […]

When the text blipped across my iPhone screen, I couldn’t help but grin. My friend—and JetBlue captain—Mike Strauss and his wife, Christa, were inviting my wife and I to his newly purchased home in Colorado. One of the attractive aspects of the invitation was that the trip out west would be flown in his Cessna […]