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Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Dominik Ochmanek to learn how ForeFlight makes VFR flights in Canada safer. Dominik will review VFR flight rules and walk you through a flight to demonstrate the tools you need to increase your competency in ForeFlight, helping you keep your focus outside instead of on your devices.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Adrian Tegler to see how ForeFlight makes filing an IFR flight plan in Canada faster and easier. Adrian will demonstrate features that enhance your safety and awareness during planning, inflight, and post-flight such as Alternate Advisor to easily find an alternate airport, Profile View to identify potential hazards like terrain, obstacles, and forecast weather along your route, and much more.

We received so many great questions during our IFR Flying in Canada webinar that we decided to hold another one dedicated to answering them! ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Adrian Tegler will reprise his role as webinar host for this follow-up presentation focused on questions regarding IFR filing regulations in Canada. Adrian will also share a number of ForeFlight support resources you can access to learn more about the topics of IFR flying and flight plan filing.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Dominik Ochmanek as he demonstrates key ForeFlight features and capabilities to help any pilot get the most out of their current subscription plan. From entry-level features included in the Basic plan to terrain and hazard awareness features in Pro and advanced flight planning features in Performance, every pilot can walk away with learning something new. He’ll also demonstrate ForeFlight’s Subscription Advisor, which can help you decide which plan may work best for the types of flying you do.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team members and Canadian pilots Adrian Tegler and Dominik Ochmanek to learn the top 10 things Canadian pilots should know about planning and flying with ForeFlight. The two will answer common questions about flight plan filing, show how to access NAV CANADA charts and documents in ForeFlight, and much more.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member and active Canadian pilot Adrian Tegler to learn how ForeFlight's extensive collection of inflight hazard awareness features can improve your safety of flight around terrain, obstacles, and difficult weather.

ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member and professional pilot Dominik Ochmanek explains how ForeFlight can help Canadian pilots prepare to fly in winter weather. Dominik walks through his winter preflight checklist and demonstrates tools within ForeFlight to make winter flying safer and easier.

Watch Thomas Daugherty and Susan DeCastro - both ForeFlight experts and CFIs - explain how flight instructors can integrate ForeFlight into their training plans to help students learn aviation concepts and be better prepared for a future in flight.

ForeFlight Logbook allows flight instructors to save their information and easily issue and track student endorsements using the Instructor Tools feature.

Join Kendall Stovall and Alex McMillan, both ForeFlight experts and active CFIs, as they explain what every student pilot needs to know about ForeFlight. They will walk you through setting up an aircraft and weight & balance, finding and uploading documents, and other features needed to plan your first flight. Kendall and Alex will also point out helpful features to help users on any subscription plan get the most out of ForeFlight.

Join ForeFlight support staff to learn everything you need to get spun up and off the ground with ForeFlight. They will demonstrate the essentials of critical workflows like using the map, setting up your aircraft, the multiple approaches to route planning, as well as tips and tricks to maximize your use of ForeFlight in no time.

Setting up your downloads in ForeFlight is easier than ever with new separate menus for Chart/Data selections and Region selections.

Join Kendall Stovall and Alex McMillan, both ForeFlight experts and active CFIs, as they explain what every student pilot needs to know about ForeFlight. They will walk you through setting up an aircraft and weight & balance, finding and uploading documents, and other features needed to plan your first flight. Kendall and Alex will also point out helpful features to help users on any subscription plan get the most out of ForeFlight.

ForeFlight’s Enhanced Weight & Balance capability is now available for all customers, allowing you to more easily create, edit, and plan with your W&B profiles. The new W&B contains features like Standard Weights and Saved Loads to save you time when inputting load information. Migrate legacy W&B profiles or easily set up new ones using our pre-built templates for hundreds of aircraft.

Additionally, with ForeFlight Performance Plus you can integrate your Weight & Balance profiles with Flights, simplifying your preflight workflow and producing more accurate time and fuel calculations.

OLD VIDEO: This video was made before the "More" tab was redesigned from a single page to a pull-out menu, but all of the capabilities you access from "More" are the same as they were before. Visit the ForeFlight Mobile Pilot's Guide.

ForeFlight now offers an enhanced flight planning workflow thanks to improvements to aircraft, the Maps view flight plan editor, and the File & Brief view, which is now called “Flights”.

This video is for ForeFlight customers with subscription plans other than Performance Plus, including the original plans and the Basic Plus and Pro Plus plans. If you have the Performance Plus plan, or want to see what is different with that plan, check out our Performance video series.

OLD VIDEO: This video was made before the "More" tab was redesigned from a single page to a pull-out menu, but all of the capabilities you access from "More" are the same as they were before. Visit the ForeFlight Mobile Pilot's Guide.

ForeFlight's data-driven Aeronautical Maps allow you to customize which map elements you show or hide. You can also choose between Light, Dark, and Classic map themes and toggle terrain features on and off. With the Aeronautical layer selected you can add or remove airspace, view high or low airways, and adjust label text size. Try mixing and matching the new map settings to find the combination that works best for you.

OLD VIDEO: This video was made before the "Airports" tab was redesigned, but all of the capabilities you access from "More" are the same as they were before. Visit the ForeFlight Mobile Pilot's Guide.

The Airports view is your all-in-one source for any kind of information about airports. From current and forecast weather to runways, procedures, and FBOs, the Airports view is one of the most important places in ForeFlight when it comes to flight planning.

This video covers some basic iPad settings we recommend to get the best experience from ForeFlight Mobile.

OLD VIDEO: This video was made before the "More" tab was redesigned from a single page to a pull-out menu, but all of the capabilities you access from "More" are the same as they were before. Visit the ForeFlight Mobile Pilot's Guide.

Keep an eye on how far you are from nearby airports, obstacles, and landmarks using distance rings. You can set the rings to automatically grow and shrink as you change zoom level, or set them to display flight times rather than distances. This simple tool is a must-have for maximizing inflight situational awareness.

Join ForeFlight support staff to learn everything you need to get spun up and off the ground with ForeFlight. They will demonstrate the essentials of critical workflows like using the map, setting up your aircraft, the multiple approaches to route planning, as well as tips and tricks to maximize your use of ForeFlight in no time.

Join the dynamic duo of Rob MacLeod and Tim Stahl from ForeFlight's FlightOps Team to learn the essentials of filing flight plans and have your questions answered. The two will walk through the entire filing process, from basic aircraft setup to route planning, filling out the flight plan form, and amending, canceling, opening, and closing flight plans. Although this webinar will focus on filing in the U.S., pilots from other countries will still find much of the material helpful to their own flying.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team Manager Josh Berman and Senior iOS Engineer Atlas Wegman to learn how ForeFlight can help you stay safe and aware during winter flying. Josh and Atlas, both pilots based in the northeast U.S., will demonstrate features and map layers including advanced uses of Profile View, preflight briefing imagery, and inflight weather information that enhance your winter flying workflows.

Join Product Manager Thomas Daugherty and Sr. Customer Success Coordinator Rachel Scarbrough to learn how ForeFlight’s Enhanced Weight & Balance feature allows you to create, edit, and plan with your W&B profiles more easily. Thomas and Rachel will walk through how to migrate your existing W&B profiles as well as create new ones using pre-built templates for hundreds of aircraft types. They will also demonstrate the powerful new integration with Flights available with ForeFlight Performance subscription plans.

Join Rob MacLeod of ForeFlight’s Flight Operations team as he explains the power and simplicity of filing ICAO flight plans from ForeFlight. Rob will cover the meaning and purpose of each field in the standard ICAO form, demystify the numerous ICAO filing codes, and demonstrate how to set everything up properly to start filing ICAO in ForeFlight.

Watch Phil Inman present our Cross Country Flight Planning webinar. This webinar covers how to plan a cross country flight and what tools ForeFlight offers to make flight planning easier. Learn how to plan a route, check the weather, download the data you need, and more.

Watch CFI and host of Aviation101 Josh Flowers along with CFI and ForeFlight Support Team member Chris Mauser describe how ForeFlight can help you optimize your pilot habits. Josh and Chris walk through their flight workflow - from preflight planning all the way to post-flight debriefing - and show how ForeFlight’s integrated capabilities can help bolster and even become the basis for safety-enhancing habits and procedures.

Watch CFII and expert ForeFlighter Jason Miller of The Finer Points and Chris Mauser, ForeFlight's Customer Success Coordinator and CFII, present an in-depth discussion on all things weather-related in ForeFlight. Jason and Chris will cover some of ForeFlight's most underutilized weather features, how to best incorporate different weather products into your preflight planning, and how these features can significantly improve the safety of flight for student pilots and experienced flyers alike.

Steve Thorne, founder and host of Flight Chops, and ForeFlight Product Manager Thomas Daugherty discuss how ForeFlight can boost your confidence and safety while training in unfamiliar aircraft types. This webinar includes inflight video clips from Steve’s YouTube channel to support the discussion, and the pair answered questions from Flight Chops followers and webinar attendees.

Have you ever thought, “I just looked away for a moment!” Learn how loss of control can happen even when you think it cannot happen, or can’t happen to you. Tom Letts of Jeppesen will provide valuable tips on what can happen and how to recover.

Did you know that regulations were not written to make a pilot’s life miserable? Regulations are designed to help protect the pilot.  That’s right, and we will look as some of the most common regulations and see how they truly do protect us.  We will look at a few cases that emphasize why we have regulations.  In addition, we will take an in-depth look at some of the regulations that pilot misinterpret, like logging PIC in a single-engine General Aviation aircraft.

Watch Phil Inman present our Decision Making & Inflight Safety webinar with Q&A. This webinar covers how to use ForeFlight’s safety features that can help you prepare for situations while flying or on the ground. Learn about preflight and inflight tools such as Takeoff and Landing Performance, Glide Advisor, inflight alerts, ADS-B weather and traffic, and more. Special guest Richard McSpadden, Executive Director of AOPA Air Safety Institute joins us to provide insight on aviation trends and increasing safety.

Filing a flight plan into Washington DC's Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) may seem daunting, but ForeFlight makes it nearly as easy as filing any other flight plan! Listen to Rob MacLeod, ForeFlight's FlightOps team lead, walk you through the process from initial planning and gate identification to filing the flight plan.

Join ForeFlight Team Lead and CFII Thomas Daugherty as he walks through helpful tips and strategies for out-of-practice pilots to get back in the air with ForeFlight! This webinar will cover the skills you need to go digital with ForeFlight Logbook, study up with the help of ForeFlight's extensive Documents catalog, complete your IPC or BFR, and get ready to retake the skies as PIC.

Join Senior Customer Success Coordinator Chris Mauser and Enterprise Account Executive Grady Hughes to learn the essential first steps in getting started with a new ForeFlight Business account. The two will highlight the benefits of ForeFlight’s integrated platform for flight departments, demonstrate how to manage aircraft, users, and linked Jeppesen subscriptions, and will also show what the setup process looks like from your pilots’ perspective.

Join ForeFlight Product Manager Caitlin Galloway and Technical Expert Josh Pava to learn how Dispatch, ForeFlight’s next-generation flight planning solution for Business Aviation, can boost the operational efficiency of flight departments large and small. Through two example flight plans of increasing complexity, Caitlin will demonstrate how Dispatch’s advanced capabilities allow for greater efficiency, flexibility, and collaboration between pilots, flight planners, and ops managers.

Join Senior Customer Success Coordinator Joey Arena and Product Manager Caitlin Galloway as they demonstrate how to efficiently manage multi-pilot accounts. They will show how to manage users and devices, publish and edit aircraft, link Jeppesen accounts, quickly distribute documents to every pilot, and much more.

Join ForeFlight and Jeppesen staff to learn how using ForeFlight Dispatch and Jeppesen International Trip Planning Services simplifies every aspect of flight planning – from route generation to coordinating ground handling and permits – for any flight department. Also learn about the close integration between Dispatch and ITPS that allows trip support personnel to send last-minute information directly to pilots in ForeFlight.

Join Aircraft Performance Team Lead Jordan Hovland and ForeFlight’s QA/Product Analyst and active Bombardier pilot Josh Pava to learn how ForeFlight’s integrated Runway Analysis and recently-enhanced Weight & Balance capabilities can help pilots and flight departments alike improve their flight planning workflows.

Join Senior Customer Success Coordinator Joey Arena and Product Manager Caitlin Galloway as they demonstrate how to efficiently manage multi-pilot accounts. They will show how to manage users and devices, publish and edit aircraft, link Jeppesen accounts, quickly distribute documents to every pilot, and much more.

Join ForeFlight Product Manager Caitlin Galloway and Director of Engineering Daniel Dahl to learn how Fuel Advisor, ForeFlight’s integrated tankering solution, can maximize your savings on every trip. Caitlin and Daniel will demonstrate how Fuel Advisor integrates with the next-generation flight planning capabilities of ForeFlight Dispatch, and identifies savings while taking aircraft performance, Runway Analysis, and Weight & Balance into consideration.

Better support your pilots on every flight with a customized Navlog layout suited to your operation. The Custom Navlog Builder is available for all ForeFlight Dispatch customers.

Learn more about ForeFlight Dispatch here.

Fly fast? Plan faster with ForeFlight Performance, which includes powerful capabilities for high-performance flight planning.

Visit foreflight.com/performance to learn more.

This is part one of our Performance video series, which walks through how to set up aircraft using ForeFlight’s new aircraft type database. These features are available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus plan, which you can purchase at foreflight.com/pricing.

This is part two of our Performance video series, which gives an overview of the new “Flights” view and walks through the first step of planning a new flight in the Flights view. These features are available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus plan, which you can purchase at foreflight.com/pricing.

This is part three of our Performance video series, which looks at the Route and Altitude Advisors and how they can help you find the best route and altitude for your flight. These features are available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus plan, which you can purchase at foreflight.com/pricing.

This is part four of our Performance video series, which walks through the process of entering payload details for a flight and managing fuel usage, including selecting a fuel policy. These features are available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus plan, which you can purchase at foreflight.com/pricing.

Weight & Balance in ForeFlight is now directly integrated with your flight planning so you can increase the accuracy of ForeFlight’s performance results and complete a critical preflight requirement all in one app. We've also simplified the setup of new and existing W&B profiles, tied them directly to your regular aircraft profiles, and added support for Basic Operating Weight.

Integrated Weight & Balance planning is included in ForeFlight Business Performance subscription plans.

Learn how to set up and publish integrated Weight & Balance profiles for your entire flight department in ForeFlight Web.

This is part six of our Performance video series, which walks through how to view and print the detailed Navlog for a flight, and request a weather briefing using ForeFlight Graphical Briefing. These features are available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus plan, which you can purchase at foreflight.com/pricing.

This is part seven of our Performance video series, which walks through how to file a flight plan using the Flights view and review important flight alerts after filing. These features are available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus plan, which you can purchase at foreflight.com/pricing.

This is part eight of our Performance video series, which gives an overview of the Performance capabilities available on ForeFlight’s web application at plan.foreflight.com, including how to set up by-altitude profiles. These features are available with ForeFlight’s Performance Plus plan, which you can purchase at foreflight.com/pricing.

Detailed aircraft performance profiles are key to ForeFlight’s advanced flight planning capabilities and our highly-accurate flight time and fuel burn calculations. The first thing you should do after purchasing or upgrading to the Performance plan is set up your aircraft to use the built-in performance profiles. You only have to do it once, and it takes under one minute.

To see how you can set up a by-altitude performance profile if your aircraft type doesn't come with ForeFlight Performance Profiles, check out our Performance on the Web video.

ForeFlight's integrated document distribution and management capability provides incredible value for flight departments of any size. Watch Caitlin Galloway, ForeFlight's Success Team Lead, demonstrate how to make the most of Cloud Documents and other features to streamline your operation.

Learn how to invite and manage users on your multi-pilot ForeFlight Business account using the Organization tab on ForeFlight Web.

In addition to user waypoints and user map layers, ForeFlight now allows you to import User Charts that you can manage and display on the map.

The User Charts feature supports MBTiles, an open source file format developed by MapBox that allows for efficient compression and distribution of large charts. The feature does not yet support vector charts, which can also use the .mbtiles extension. A great tool for creating your own MBtiles is MapTiler, which is free to download and allows you to quickly georeference and export raster charts.

Jeppesen's global charts, terrain, obstacles, and NavData® are coming to ForeFlight Mobile – your all-in-one solution for planning, briefing, filing, flying, and logging flights. We are excited to announce this partnership that is truly greater than the sum of its charts. Our long-term strategic alliance with Jeppesen will advance the development and delivery of innovative products and services faster than either organization could deliver on its own. Learn more at https://foreflight.com/jeppesen.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Wolfgang Oestreich to learn the essentials of planning, filing, and flying VFR flights in Europe. Wolfgang will demonstrate how to generate a route in seconds, check weather conditions, show how ForeFlight can optimise your flight plan for maximum efficiency, and much more.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Wolfgang Oestreich to learn the essentials of planning, filing, and flying IFR in Europe. Wolfgang will explain how to configure your aircraft’s filing codes, how to easily generate and file a EUROCONTROL-valid route in seconds, and how to organise the procedure charts you’ll need for the flight.

European pilots can improve their planning and flying experience with flexible chart options in ForeFlight, including both IFR and VFR charts that pack all the essentials you need into one integrated app. European subscriptions include Jeppesen VFR and IFR data built into ForeFlight’s map, and charts and AIPs for supported countries via EUROCONTROL, giving you a solid foundation for any type of flying. Additionally, you can select optional VFR chart and AIP add-ons as part of your subscription to enhance your VFR flying with your preferred chart providers.

ForeFlight’s Route Advisor provides fast autorouting in Europe for both IFR and VFR flights, helping pilots of any kind find the best route for their flight. Powered by a state-of-the-art cloud-based routing engine, Route Advisor generates optimized and EUROCONTROL-validated IFR, YFR, and ZFR routes in seconds, and also returns VFR route suggestions that comply with standard AIP guidelines. And with support for VFR and IFR flight plan filing throughout Europe, ForeFlight is the one-stop-shop for integrated planning, filing, and flying.

Previously limited to Europe, Graphical enroute NOTAMs are now supported globally with the new NOTAMs map layer. NOTAMs are color-coded based on type, severity, and active times, with new type-based filters available in Map Settings.

NOTE: GAFOR is no longer supported in France.

ForeFlight provides General Aviation Forecasts, or GAFOR, in an interactive map layer to help pilots flying in Europe better assess upcoming weather and prepare for their flights. GAFOR is included in all European ForeFlight subscriptions.

ForeFlight SETOPS is an advanced flight planning capability that helps European commercial operators of single engine turbine aircraft comply with EASA regulations while increasing the safety and efficiency of their entire operation. SETOPS is available as a per-tail add-on to ForeFlight Business Performance subscription plans. 

NOTE: Since this webinar, ForeFlight released Sentry Plus, a portable ADS-B and FLARM receiver.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Wolfgang Oestreich to learn how ForeFlight connects with portable devices and installed avionics to enhance your inflight workflow. Wolfgang will cover supported devices available in Europe, including portable devices to receive FLARM and ADS-B traffic, sending route data to and from your avionics using Flight Plan Transfer, and how to receive inflight weather.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Wolfgang Oestreich to learn how ForeFlight connects with portable devices and installed avionics to enhance your inflight workflow. Wolfgang will cover supported devices available in Europe, including portable devices to receive FLARM and ADS-B traffic, sending route data to and from your avionics using Flight Plan Transfer, and how to receive inflight weather.

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team member Wolfgang Oestreich to learn how ForeFlight connects with portable devices and installed avionics to enhance your inflight workflow. Wolfgang will cover supported devices available in Europe, including portable devices to receive FLARM and ADS-B traffic, sending route data to and from your avionics using Flight Plan Transfer, and how to receive inflight weather.

To further streamline your planning workflow on Flights, you’ll find a quick access button to Pack directly below the Flight Log. Just like the ‘suitcase’ button on the Maps view, tap ‘Pack and it will analyze your route and package up all of the charts, data, NOTAM, and weather information (including Icing and Turbulence for Pro Plus and Performance Plus customers) you’ll need to access offline during your flight.

OLD VIDEO: This video was made before the "More" tab was redesigned from a single page to a pull-out menu, but all of the capabilities you access from "More" are the same as they were before. Visit the ForeFlight Mobile Pilot's Guide.

ForeFlight's data-driven Aeronautical Maps allow you to customize which map elements you show or hide. You can also choose between Light, Dark, and Classic map themes and toggle terrain features on and off. With the Aeronautical layer selected you can add or remove airspace, view high or low airways, and adjust label text size. Try mixing and matching the new map settings to find the combination that works best for you.

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. Combined with other airspace features like Auto Highlight and selectable airspace types, customizing the map to show only the most relevant airspace is easier than ever.

This video describes ForeFlight's auto-start, -stop, and -upload capabilities for Track Logs, and how you can automatically create new Logbook entries from Track Logs.

This video covers some basic iPad settings we recommend to get the best experience from ForeFlight Mobile.