ForeFlight

ForeFlight released its 12.4 version of the multifunctional flight planning app on May 26, 2020, with a selection of new features that bring feedback from customers into reality. Among the updates: multitasking for iPad, and global traffic (via internet) from FlightAware. New iOS multitasking allows users to run apps side by side on the display, […]

When ForeFlight was founded in 2007, it set out on one mission: Create software that makes flight planning easier. The company says, “We do it all with the aviator spirit, a sense of calculated risk-taking, and adventure,” a company culture that comes through loud and clear in the latest update of their flagship product, ForeFlight […]

Here’s a situation you’ve likely experienced: You drive 45 minutes to the airport, walk out to your airplane and start unpacking your flight bag. As you go through your normal preflight routine and organize your gear in the cockpit, you experience that sinking feeling and realize you left something behind. If you had to pick […]

ForeFlight has added 3D flight planning tools for top-tier subscribers to its mobile flight-planning app that allow a pilot to see a digitized map of any airport and virtually fly any route before a flight or afterward as a debrief tool. ForeFlight CEO Tyson Weihs offered Flying a demonstration of the technology at the company’s […]

Like many aviation enthusiasts, my introduction to general aviation and piston airplanes was Flying magazine. As a kid in the 1990s, I always looked forward to heading to the barbershop with my dad where I could read the latest copy of Flying while waiting my turn for a haircut. I hoped to see a full […]

The latest version of ForeFlight, release 11.4, adds a new Takeoff & Landing Performance feature for calculating critical distance and speed metrics for both takeoff and landing, as well as a new way to share flights with other pilots. The new Takeoff & Landing Performance capability, available to purchasers of a ForeFlight Performance subscription, provides […]

To many GA pilots, asking whether a pilot’s iPad is ForeFlight-equipped has become nearly as generic a question before takeoff as wondering if there will be Kleenex aboard. In early March, aerospace giant Boeing added Houston, Texas-based ForeFlight to its stable of subsidiaries that includes Jeppesen and its entire line of navigation databases, charts, aviation […]

Premier aviation app maker ForeFlight continues adding features and making improvements to its app. Recently, the company updated its Documents feature, streamlining document management. The new features within Documents will be available with ForeFlight’s next software update. A ForeFlight subscription provides access to hundreds of documents from official government sources, such as FAA, NAV Canada […]

Aviation app maker ForeFlight has launched a new app to help passengers stay more aware during a flight without having to bother the pilot. ForeFlight Passenger is a free companion app to the company’s well-established aviation app, ForeFlight Mobile, and it allows non-pilots to follow along during the flight to get an idea of where […]

ForeFlight opened for business in 2007 around a single mission; creating software that makes flight planning easier. Yesterday, The Boeing Company announced it had formally acquired Houston-based ForeFlight. Users have, over the past two years, been able to take advantage of Jeppesen aeronautical charts through ForeFlight’s popular mobile platforms. The link with Boeing is expected […]