Data-Driven Aeronautical Maps & High-Resolution Basemap
Global, data-driven
Aeronautical Maps, available on mobile and the web, feature incredibly fast
Continuous Zoom™ technology, dynamic decluttering, and
automatic airspace highlighting, powered by ForeFlight’s
state-of-the-art map engine.
Map elements smoothly scale without losing clarity. Airport
Diagrams and FBO markers are embedded directly into the map.
Customize by toggling on/off aeronautical data and basemap
elements, adjust text size and choose between light and dark
themes.
Take notes on the fly, draw holding patterns, highlight relevant
parts of a map or layer, and more using
Map Annotations.
Flight Planning
Graphical Touch Planning
and interactive route editor makes it easy to plan and modify
your route.
Procedure Advisor
presents SIDs, STARs, approaches, SAR patterns, and traffic
pattern entries that can be added to your route with a tap.
Altitude Advisor
shows wind speed and direction to optimize fuel burn.
Unified App Search
helps you quickly find routes, cities, airports, aeronautical
information, landmarks, aircraft, and procedures.
TFRs are plotted graphically on the map and color coded
to indicate status as active or upcoming.
Alternate Advisor provides a list of suggested alternate
airports to help you choose the best one for your flight.
File & Brief
File, amend, and cancel
IFR plans, and activate and close VFR plans from within the app.
Our dual AFTN connections on two continents ensure redundancy
and reliability in transmitting filed flight plans.
IFR flight plan filing is supported in the U.S. and its
territories, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, and all
EUROCONTROL member states. ForeFlight also supports filing
intra-Canada and cross-border VFR flight plans between the US
and Canada.
ForeFlight
Graphical Briefing
transforms the standard text preflight briefing information into
a visually elegant design for better readability.
Aviation Weather
Forecast weather
imagery products
and real-time weather map overlays, including: animated
high resolution NEXRAD composite radar with lightning strikes,
rotation detection and storm tracks, global color-enhanced
infrared satellite, color-coded METARs, TAFs, temperature,
dewpoint, visibility, and global winds aloft, graphical
AIR/SIGMETs and Center Weather Advisories, and more.
VFR & IFR Charts
VFR and IFR charts
based on your selected region.
United States region includes FAA VFR Sectionals, TACs,
VFR Flyway Charts, IFR High/Low Enroutes, IFR Terminal
Procedures, IFR planning, US Helicopter Route charts, VFR/IFR
Gulf of Mexico, and more.
Canada region includes NAV CANADA VNC, VTA, IFR High/Low
Enroutes, IFR Terminal Procedures, CFS, CAP GEN, Water Aerodrome
Supplement, and more.
Europe region includes AIP charts and documents for many
countries via EUROCONTROL. Optional add-ons are also
available.
Learn more about European coverage here.
Australia region includes Airservices Australia VFR
Charts, IFR High and Low Charts, Procedure Charts, Airport
Diagrams, and AIP Documents.
The Automatic Downloads feature ensures your charts are always
current by downloading updates as soon as they become available.
Airport & FBO Information
Neatly organized
global airport directory includes over 25,000 locations.
View frequencies, procedures, runways, weather, and more.
Comprehensive
FBO Directory
provides services, amenities, fuel prices with notes, FBO fees,
photos, contact information, and more.
Global Navigation Data
Global Jeppesen-sourced navigation data, including airports, navigation aids, waypoints, detailed
airspace information, airways, and SID/STAR and approach
procedure data.
Europe region includes special Jeppesen VFR navigation data with
VFR waypoints, entries and exits, traffic circuits, no-overfly
areas, and more.
ForeFlight Taxi Charts
Over 3000 ForeFlight-created taxi charts, plus aviation
authority taxi charts depending on your selected region.
NOTAM Advisor alerts you to location-specific notices
right on the taxi chart. FBO locations are mapped on taxi
charts.
Jeppesen VFR Charts
Included within the Europe region, best-in-class VFR procedures
from Jeppesen displayed seamlessly on the digital ForeFlight
Aeronautical Map.
Optional Data packages
A variety of European national VFR packages are available for
purchase, including DFS, SkyGuide, CartaBossy, IGN, and more.
Jeppesen VFR Procedure Charts cover more than 2,200
airports in 29 countries in Europe. They contain general and
country-specific charts including regulations, communications,
meteorology, aerodrome directory, and more for the planning and
execution of flights within Europe under Visual Flight Rules.
Jeppesen's world-class IFR charts are available in the
following coverages: CONUS USA and Hawaii, Canada/Alaska, Latin
America/Caribbean, South America, All Europe, Northern Europe,
Eastern Europe, Middle East and South Asia, Australasia,
Australia, New Zealand, and Africa.
See all optional add-ons for Europe
Weight & Balance
Weight & Balance
comes pre-loaded with more than 100 aircraft models. A smart
interview wizard walks you through the setup.
Customize unlimited aircraft W&B profiles and quickly evaluate
the effects of passenger and payload distribution before every
flight. Visual and audio alerts let you know at-a-glance if you
are out of limits.
Pilot Logbook
Logbook
is seamlessly integrated into the ForeFlight app making
it easy for pilots to log and share flights, track hours, review
currency, record certificates and ratings, send and receive
digital endorsements, and generate experience reports.
Color-coded Currency Summary helps you stay on top of
currency for IFR flight, type ratings, carrying passengers at
night, your medical certificate, flight reviews, and more.
Logbook automatically flags any missing aircraft profile details
to ensure accurate tracking.
All of your Logbook data is protected in ForeFlight’s secure
cloud storage. Easily bulk import existing flight time and
export your full logbook data at any time.
Manage your instructor information and issue remote endorsements
to students with
Logbook Instructor Tools.
Checklist with Speak Mode
Checklist
keeps critical procedures organized and easily accessible for
every phase of flight. The intuitive, simple interface fits
naturally into your workflow and helps you conduct safer flight
operations. Start with preconfigured templates or create your
own custom checklists and share with other pilots. With
Checklist Speak
ForeFlight can automatically call out each item in a checklist
so you can focus on flying.
ForeFlight on the Web
Plan, file and brief flights in a beautifully designed
desktop experience. Manage your account and aircraft profiles, use familiar text
and rubber band planning, access the navlog, route advisor,
graphical briefing, and more. Activity syncs real-time with
mobile devices.
Avionics Connectivity
ForeFlight Connect
is a platform that
enables portable and installed avionics to connect with
ForeFlight
and deliver capabilities like two-way flight plan transfer, and
the display of ADS-B weather and traffic, back-up attitude and
GPS position.
Partners include Stratus, Garmin, uAvionix, Avidyne, L-3, Dynon
Avionics, FreeFlight, Bad Elf, and more.
ForeFlight provides an
extended version
of the industry-standard GDL 90 Data Interface Specification for
third-party devices to transmit live weather, traffic, AHRS,
device name information, and GPS data to ForeFlight Mobile.
Printable Navlog
Print your detailed navlog trip sheet and track actual
performance against planned.
Navlog
includes route leg performance, a wind and temperature aloft
table for quick reference to forecasted conditions at each
waypoint, frequencies, step climb information, and more.
Documents Catalog
Built-in catalog
of hundreds of helpful documents, including ForeFlight guides,
chart supplements, and flying handbooks. US region includes
A/FD; Canada region includes CFS; Europe region includes AIP
documents via EUROCONTROL. Import your own documents via AirDrop
or iTunes and organize them into binders.
ForeFlight supports the following document types: pdf, tiff,
tif, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bmp, bmpf, txt, doc, docx, xlsx, xls,
pptx, ppt, csv, pages, key, and numbers.
Flight Notifications & Messages
After filing, ForeFlight sends you
real-time push and email notifications
when ATC provides updates for your flight plan, including
acknowledgements, rejections, expected route updates, and
Expected Departure Clearance Time (EDCT) messages.
In-app Flight Messages deliver any new or modified condition
information to all of your synced devices as they occur,
including updates to: TFRs, airport/runway closed/unsafe NOTAMs,
PIREPs, SIGMETs, Convective SIGMETs, AIRMETs, Center Weather
Advisories (CWAs), and Severe Weather Watches/Warnings.
Content Packs
Create, view, and share custom bundles
of maps, waypoints, procedures, and documents to enhance
planning and flying for missions like wildfire fighting,
smokejumping, backcountry flying, flight training, sightseeing
tours, and more.
Learn more.
Track Logs & Breadcrumbs
Record your flights for later viewing and debriefing with Track
Logs. Enable
Auto Start/Stop
to have Track Logs automatically start recording at takeoff and
finish when you land.
Track Log Review
provides an interactive debriefing tool, allowing you to
simultaneously view and compare multiple types of data
throughout the flight, making it easy to assess maneuvers and
other flight components.
Breadcrumbs
is a related feature that traces your actual flight path as a
green line during the flight, drawing out your track log in real
time so you can see where you’ve been.
Passenger App Connectivity
Help your passengers follow along with the flight by sharing
route and weather information with them via
Passenger. Passenger connects to your ForeFlight app and displays
current route, time to destination, ETA, altitude, groundspeed,
magnetic bearing, and destination weather.
Internet Traffic via FlightAware
Internet Traffic
hooks you into FlightAware’s global traffic coverage, allowing
you to view airborne and ground traffic all over the world any
time you have an internet connection on the ground.
Geo-Referenced Approaches & Taxi Charts
Taxi charts and approach plates
are geo-referenced to enable the real-time display of
your GPS position on the chart.
On the ground,
runway proximity advisor helps you avoid runway
incursions.
In the air, never lose sight of where you are on an approach.
Plates on Maps
For the ultimate in situational awareness, view approach plates,
taxi charts, hazards and weather in one seamless moving map
view.
Synthetic Vision with Glance Mode
A visually stunning
and high-performance hazard awareness capability for the iPad
and iPhone.
See a three dimensional VFR view of terrain, obstacles, and
runways along your flight path. Pan and zoom 360-degrees around
your aircraft position.
When paired to a compatible AHRS source, Synthetic Vision
becomes an affordable backup attitude indicator complete with
super-responsive pitch and bank information.
Hazard Advisor & Automatic Hazard Alerts
Hazard Advisor is a moving map overlay that depicts
hazardous terrain and obstacles, dynamically highlighted yellow and red based on the relative
height of your aircraft to the hazard.
Hazard Alerts detect and warn of threatening obstacles
and terrain using visual and audio alerts that display app-wide.
Terrain Profile View with Airspace
Profile View takes Hazard Advisor into vertical mode and gives
you a side view of terrain, obstacles, and airspace along your
planned route.
Use Profile on the ground to easily determine the highest
point along your route, how much clearance you have over that
highest point, and if your planned altitude intersects with any
terrain or obstacles. Tap on
airspace in Profile View
to see information and zoom to it on the map so you know exactly
where it lies along your route.
In the air, Profile View scrolls along as you fly and
continuously updates the terrain and airspace ahead of your
aircraft.
Cloud Documents
Store your own
documents
in the cloud, access them in ForeFlight on iPad and iPhone, and
keep them in sync across devices.
Securely publish and update documents
with a simple drag-and-drop interface using any one of three
supported cloud services: Box, Amazon S3, or Dropbox.
Icing, Turbulence, & Surface Analysis
Dynamic map layers that graphically depict
global icing, turbulence, and surface pressure, with
detailed surface analysis
available to most of North America. You can view these layers on
both mobile and on the web.
Detailed Aircraft Performance Profiles
Our in-house performance team built each
performance profile
according to the climb, descent, and cruise model parameters
defined for multiple aircraft weights, altitudes, and
temperatures as published in the manufacturer’s data.
Improved Time & Fuel Calculations
The industry’s most accurate flight time and fuel burn
calculations for all weight, temperature and wind conditions
using aircraft profiles built from manufacturer climb, cruise
and descent book value performance data.
3D View
Preview the airport environment and review your planned and
recorded flights with a full-screen, interactive, 3-dimensional
view that combines high-resolution terrain data and aerial
imagery.
Airport 3D
allows you to see airports from any angle and instantly line up
with runways to get the view from short final.
3D Review
lets you play through Track Logs and Logbook entries to evaluate
maneuvers with pitch and bank replay. With interactive first-
and third-person camera modes you can review your flights from
any perspective.
3D Preview
provides an interactive preview of planned flight to help you
familiarize yourself with terrain, landmarks, and more before
the flight. Add an approach procedure to your route to see it
depicted fix-by-fix in 3D, complete with speed and altitude
restrictions for an accurate representation of the approach all
the way down to the runway.
Optimized Autorouting
ForeFlight analyzes wind and temperature data, aircraft
performance capabilities, and recent ATC history to generate the
best route and altitude that’s also ATC-friendly, so you can
file with confidence. The Route Advisor tool makes it quick and
easy to get a Recommended Route, file it, and get on with your
mission. Customize the Recommended Route with flexible Route
Constraints, including avoiding or including specific waypoints,
avoiding FIRs, and constraining your altitude range.
Takeoff & Landing Performance
Ensure that you can safely take off and land with fast
runway performance calculations
for supported piston and turboprop aircraft. ForeFlight uses
published runway performance data and current weather conditions
to calculate the most important distance and speed metrics for
both takeoff and landing, and warns you when the results exceed
the selected runway’s or aircraft’s limits. Add built-in safety
margins based on runway conditions or other factors.
Pre-Departure Clearance (PDC) & D-ATIS
Receive your departure clearance
via text and email at over 70 U.S. airports when you register
your aircraft and file with ForeFlight. Also view ATIS in the
app at supported locations.
Fuel Load Planning & Limit Checks
Multiple
fuel policies
give you the flexibility to quickly calculate fuel load
scenarios. Need to land with a specific quantity of fuel? Use
Landing Fuel policy to quickly calculate that block fuel.
Automatic structural weight limit checks keep you from
overloading the aircraft.
Integrated JetFuelX Prices
JetFuelX
is the simple and fast way to manage your multiple fuel card
memberships. With the ForeFlight Performance Plus plan, your
contract fuel prices can be conveniently displayed within
ForeFlight Mobile and on the web.
FBO Fuel Orders & Fuel Releases
Seamlessly integrated with ForeFlight’s flight planning
workflow,
Fuel Orders
allow you to send detailed fuel requests to FBOs with
information about the type and quantity of fuel and your
expected arrival time at the FBO.
With a linked
JetFuelX
account you can also send a fuel release as part of your fuel
order, notifying your contract fuel provider and providing all
the details needed for them to contact the FBO and release the
fuel.
Trip Assistant with Fuel Stop Planning
A
web-based planning tool
that helps anyone in your flight department quickly compute
total trip time (including flight, drive, and stopover time),
and answer the question: “When do I need to leave to arrive on
time?” It even suggests fuel stops.
Files in Flights
Attach files, documents, and photos to a
flight plan
in Flights for faster inflight access and improved organization.
Marked Positions
Drop detailed markers along your route and view or share them
after the flight using
Marked Positions. Perfect for noting points of interest, conducting search and
rescue operations, or plotting your position on oceanic flights,
Marked Positions provides a highly-flexible solution for many
use-cases.
Fanatical Pilot Support™
Every support team member is a pilot and ForeFlight expert.
Contact us any time at
team@foreflight.com.
Manage Users
Add and remove pilots one-by-one or in bulk using our secure
online portal for professional flight operators. New users
receive an email invite to quickly set up their account and
start planning. Account admins have one-click access to their
pilots’ accounts for easy hands-on management.
Manage Devices
Easily track all the devices running ForeFlight on your account,
including the pilot’s name and email, the device model, and the
device’s iOS and ForeFlight versions. Remove devices with a
single click to free up slots for new devices.
Aircraft Manager with Aircraft Sync
For the most accurate and consistent flight planning experience
you can create, edit, and share aircraft profiles with your team
and easily publish configuration changes that automatically sync
to all pilot accounts.
Content Currency & Compliance Tracking
Ensure everyone is flying with current information. Monitor
chart, data, and document revisions loaded on every device as
part of the device overview table.
Cloud Documents
Fast, cloud-based document distribution for your flight
department.
Securely publish and update documents
with a simple drag-and-drop interface using any one of three
supported cloud services: Box, Amazon S3, or Dropbox. Keep your
documents organized with support for nested folders so pilots
can download and receive automatic updates. Manage and
distribute docs and custom content to your crew Now supported on
iPad and iPhone for even more flexibility.
Manage Jeppesen Charts
Link your Jeppesen Business account
to allow all your pilots to install coverages and download
Jeppesen enroute, procedure, and airport charts on their
devices. Easily manage the coverages installed on your pilots’
devices and see the number of installs remaining.
Organized Track Systems
Link your Jeppesen Business account
to allow all your pilots to install coverages and download
Jeppesen enroute, procedure, and airport charts on their
devices. Easily manage the coverages installed on your pilots’
devices and see the number of installs remaining.
Concierge Account Management
ForeFlight's
Fanatical Pilot Support™
extends to your flight operation with dedicated account managers
that help you climb aboard, answer questions, help with upgrades
and expansions, organize pilot training, and provide the
flight support
you need throughout the year.