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 Route Advisor provides a comprehensive selection of recently cleared ATC routes, automatically computed airway routes, Terminal Enroute Clearances, and Preferred Routes.

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.

A variety of base map layers improve situational awareness, including world, terrain, street and satellite views.

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.