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Flight Planning

Go from airport selection to filing and takeoff with the best flight planning tools around

Airport & Route Planning

Airport & Route Planning

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AOPA FBO Fees

ForeFlight displays FBO fees from AOPA's Airport Directory to help you make more informed flight planning decisions.

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Graphical NOTAMs

Graphical enroute NOTAMs are now supported globally with the new NOTAMs map layer. NOTAMs are color-coded based on type, severity, and active times.

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Operational Notes on Route

Easily find and review operational notes affecting your route from start to finish with Operational Note Flags

Performance Planning

Performance Planning

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Refined Fuel Planning

The Fuel Planning section on the Flights view makes it easier to switch between fuel policies and update target values for fast and accurate scenario planning.

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Takeoff & Landing Distances for Pistons

Takeoff and Landing Distances is a powerful flight planning capability that provides safety-enhancing runway performance calculations for supported piston aircraft in seconds.

Quick Tips

Takeoff & Landing Safety Distance Factor

ForeFlight's TOLD feature for pistons allows you to specify a safety distance factor to produce more conservative runway performance calculations in response to runway conditions or other factors.

Altitude & Terrain Planning

Altitude & Terrain Planning

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Airspace in Profile View

Profile view in ForeFlight now depicts airspace along your route, providing you with valuable information for flight planning and inflight use beyond terrain and obstacle avoidance.

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Forecast Weather in Profile View

ForeFlight's Profile View includes selectable Icing and Turbulence forecast layers, providing a cross-section of weather in addition to terrain, obstacles, and airspace along your route.

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Hazard Advisor Altitude Preview

Manually control Hazard Advisor’s altitude before a flight to find a minimum altitude route around terrain, then revert to Auto mode during a flight to lock Hazard Advisor to your actual altitude.

3D View

3D View

Feature Focus

Forecast Weather in 3D Preview

Enhance your preflight weather planning with interactive Icing and Turbulence forecast layers in 3D Preview, available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus and Business Performance subscription plans.

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3D Airport Traffic

Follow live approaches, landings, and takeoffs in 3D with FlightAware-sourced Internet Traffic in 3D Airports, available with Performance Plus and Business Performance subscription plans.

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3D Review

3D Review is a flight planning and debriefing capability that allows you to review planned and recorded flights with immersive 3D terrain and aerial imagery.

Documents

Documents

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Document Enhancements

ForeFlight’s Documents view has an enhanced layout that makes it easier to find, download, and access documents.

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Import Documents with Drag-n-Drop

Easily import documents into ForeFlight and add them to custom binders using a dedicated Import button and flexible drag-n-drop gestures from other apps.

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Files in Flights

ForeFlight allows you to associate files, documents, and photos with flight plans using the Files in Flights feature, helping you keep important flight resources organized and easily accessible.

Filing & Pre-Departure

Filing & Pre-Departure

Feature Focus

Alternate Advisor

ForeFlight’s Alternate Advisor simplifies the process of choosing a good alternate airport by providing a list of suggestions to help you narrow your options.

Quick Tips

Filing with a Call Sign

ForeFlight now allows you to add a call sign to flight plans. Since most pilots don’t use call signs, the setting is disabled by default; you can enable it in More, Settings, File & Brief.

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Files in Flights

ForeFlight allows you to associate files, documents, and photos with flight plans using the Files in Flights feature, helping you keep important flight resources organized and easily accessible.