ForeFlight AOPA Summit Meetup

We’re on the ground at AOPA Summit in Tampa and wanted to spread the word about the ForeFlight Meetup later today. Visit us in Booth 1045 or watch the live video online.

Friday, November 6th
1:30pm EST – ForeFlight Meetup
2:30pm EST – AOPA Airports for iPhone

Meet the ForeFlight team, exchange ideas, and learn tips and tricks [...]

The Finer Points of Flying Launches Flight Training iPhone App

Always committed to employing the latest technologies to further improve ease and access to practical flight training, The Finer Points of Flying (www.TheFinerPoints.net) has joined forces with ForeFlight (www.ForeFlight.com) to develop the iPhone app, VFR Communications.
This five‐chapter instructional course available for the iPhone and iPod touch contains an hour of high‐definition video, computer animation and [...]

iPhone Helps Save a Life

When we first started developing software for the iPhone, we had no idea just how many people would find what we built useful and valuable.  Over the past year, we have founds ourselves amazed at the ways the iPhone and mobile aviation software has helped improve situational awareness and safety. Every day we get encouraging [...]

ForeFlight Charts: Now Includes Alaska VFR Sectionals

Last night we launched VFR sectional chart coverage for Alaska for our pilot friends up north. Alaska coverage presented unique challenges: the whole area is about 50% of the size of the contiguous US (thus a lot of disk space and additional processing required), and the mercator projection has interesting effects on geographical areas far [...]

ForeFlight Apparel

The ForeFlight team has worked with Spreadshirt to offer ForeFlight apparel for sale online.
If you’re interested in getting a great looking shirt or hat check out the new online store!

Weather Briefings in Your Inbox

Earlier this week we enabled a new feature: automatic DUATS weather briefings via email. Simply file a plan using ForeFlight Mobile or ForeFlight File, include your email address on the flight planning form, and seconds later an elegantly styled briefing appears in your email inbox.
Refer to the briefing later, forward it to a friend, or [...]

ForeFlight Charts 1.0: iPhone Sectionals and Terminal Charts

We’re proud to announce our newest iPhone app: ForeFlight Charts 1.0! ForeFlight Charts makes exploring FAA VFR Sectional Charts and planning simple routes of flight a breeze! Effortlessly zoom through the airspace along a route of flight, compute the estimated time en-route and fuel burn, or calculate total trip distance.

Pinch, drag, and zoom FAA Sectional [...]

ForeFlight Mobile Turns One, A Year in Top 25 Weather Apps

Today ForeFlight Mobile turns one year old!  We’re pretty excited about that, and even shared a ForeFlight-styled cake and candle to celebrate.
One year ago, the App Store launched and ForeFlight was one of only a handful of apps to appear in the Weather category. For one day, ForeFlight was the most expensive application in the [...]

iPhone OS 3.0 Adoption by ForeFlight Customers

Prior to updating all of our apps to support iPhone OS 3.0, we studied prior iPhone and iPod touch update adoption rates.  Conclusion:  be ready, customers upgrade fast.  After one week in the wild, here’s what’s shakin’ (it turns out that updating was wise):
AdMob reported today that 44% of web requests in their network are [...]

ForeFlight Apps, Ready for iPhone OS 3.0!

Tomorrow is “3-Day”!  The third generation of Apple’s iPhone OS operation system – iPhone OS 3.0 – hits Apple’s software update servers tomorrow.
Are you curious to know how quickly iPhone owners upgrade?  Charts put out by AdMob indicate that about 30% of iPhone owners will upgrade within the first week of a new iPhone OS [...]