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Tips & Tricks

Learn about powerful and underutilized features, whether you're brand new or a ForeFlight veteran.

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Flight search interface showing scheduled flight UAL467 from KCLE to KDEN departing today at 5:00 PM EDT.
Quick Tips

Scheduled Flight Search

ForeFlight allows you to search for aircraft tail numbers, call signs, and flight numbers on the Maps view to see recently filed flight plans and load them into your route.

Map with marked airports and airspace, featuring blue and red annotations near Austin and surrounding towns.
Quick Tips

Map Annotations

Take notes on the fly and mark up charts using ForeFlight's Map Annotations feature. Tap the Annotations buttons on the Maps view to enter Drawing Mode, and use a finger or stylus to draw on the map.

Aeronautical chart showing European airspace sectors and customization menu with toggles for airspace options.
Quick Tips

Hide Airspace by Altitude

You can declutter ForeFlight's Aeronautical Map by hiding any airspace above a selected altitude, making it easier to focus on airspace closer to you.

Preflight checklist includes passenger briefing, seats, brakes, circuit breakers done; electrical and avionics off.
Product Briefing

ForeFlight Checklist

ForeFlight Checklist integrates one of the most important inflight tools into the app you already use for every stage of flight, reducing cockpit clutter and providing an intuitive, simple interface.

Feature Focus

Unified App Search

ForeFlight provides an unified search capability that makes it easier and faster to find what you're looking for, and saves past searches for quick access.

Split cockpit display with synthetic vision and traffic on the left and navigation map on the right.
Feature Focus

Synthetic Vision Traffic & Glance Mode

ForeFlight's Synthetic Vision feature now provides even more situational awareness with integrated ADS-B traffic depictions and a 360-degree interactive Glance Mode.

User interface showing flight binders with aviation charts and documents for Tulsa airport and others.
Feature Focus

Plate Flight Binders

Quickly gather, organize, and access the plates you need for an entire flight using Flight Binders in the Plates view.

Weather forecast for KBFI showing showers, MVFR flight category, 43°F, 5,000 ceiling, 5 sm visibility.
Feature Focus

Daily/Hourly Forecasts

Stay on top of weather today or next week with Daily and Hourly Forecasts - an all-purpose, 10-day, hour-by-hour forecast for any location on Earth.

Feature Focus

Marked Positions

Drop detailed markers along your route and view or share them after the flight using ForeFlight’s Marked Positions feature.

Phone screen showing a prompt to accept a read-only shared flight by Joe Pilot with Deny and Accept options.
Feature Focus

Flight Sharing

Flight Sharing in ForeFlight allows you to easily share your planned and filed flights with fellow pilots, co-pilots, or crew members for improved collaboration and more efficient flight planning.

Jeppesen approach chart for ILS or LOC runway 17L at Austin Bergstrom Intl Airport, Texas.
Quick Tips

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs allow you to see a track log as it’s recorded, leaving a continuous line that you can reference for maneuvers, Search and Rescue and survey work, or just to see where you’ve been.