March 2022

Enhanced Weight & Balance

• Create, edit, and plan with Weight & Balance profiles more easily with ForeFlight’s Enhanced W&B view.
• Enhanced W&B is disabled by default, but you can enable it in More > Account > ForeFlight Labs. The new paradigm will fully replace the old one later this year.
• Migrate your legacy W&B profiles to the new paradigm with a 4-step Migration Assistant that ties the profile to one of your existing Aircraft profiles and verifies the number of stations and seats. Easily set up new W&B profiles using our pre-built templates for hundreds of aircraft.
• The Enhanced W&B view in More > Weight & Balance uses a simplified interface that better reflects your aircraft’s actual layout, allowing you to add passengers and cargo to specific seats and stations.
• Additionally, named passengers and cargo items are saved for quick access later, while “Standard Weights” provide generic weights for Males, Females, and Children. Customize these Standard Weights at the bottom of More > Settings. Tap Summary in the top-right to view a detailed load manifest PDF with space for signing and dating.

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Weight & Balance Integrated with Flights

• ForeFlight Premium customers can additionally access W&B planning directly in the Flights view, simplifying your preflight workflow and producing more accurate time and fuel calculations.
• Tap the Weight & Balance button in a flight’s Payload section to select a profile and specify loads for the flight. The graph at the top of the page shows how your weight and CG will change from takeoff to landing and automatically incorporates fuel information from the rest of the flight plan.
• You must enable Enhanced Weight & Balance in More > Account > ForeFlight Labs to integrate W&B with Flights.

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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.
• With the Hazard Advisor map layer enabled, the new Altitude Slider highlights hazardous terrain at each altitude based on your Hazard Altitude settings - yellow within 1000 feet and red within 100 feet by default.
• The Altitude Slider ranges from 100 to 30,000 feet MSL in increments of 100, then 500 feet. MFB customers can also use 100ft increments for the entire slider using the Slider Step Size option in the Hazard Settings menu. 
• When planning a flight, the altitude slider defaults to your planned altitude and automatically updates with any altitude changes. With Profile View open you can scrub the slider to preview other altitudes above or below your route without changing your planned altitude.
• To make changes to Corridor Width, Activation Speed, and Hazard Altitudes tap the Settings button to the right of the legend at the bottom of your screen.
• The Activation Speed setting determines at what ground speed Hazard Advisor will enter inflight mode (30 knots by default). In this mode an Auto button appears at the top of the altitude slider and automatically matches your current altitude. 
• You can still view hazards at other altitudes using the slider, but Auto mode will automatically turn back on 10 seconds after you release the slider.
• Hazard Advisor is available with Essential subscriptions and above.

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Organized Track Systems with Jeppesen Enroute Charts

• Customers with Jeppesen chart coverage can now view Organized Track Systems on top of Jeppesen’s IFR map layers.
• Show or hide all organized tracks or only Eastbound or Westbound tracks in the Map Settings menu alongside other Jeppsen chart elements.
• Organized Track Systems are available with ForeFlight Premium plans and are also accessible from the Aeronautical Map.

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New Runway Analysis Aircraft Support

• ForeFlight’s advanced Runway Analysis product for jets now supports the following aircraft models:
• Gulfstream G150
• Textron 525 Citation M2 with Tamarack Winglets

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