When earthrounder Matt Guthmiller launched 8Flight last year, it was primarily useful as a directory listing FBO fees, fuel prices, and restaurant information. Guthmiller said the latest version is now ready to compete with established flight planning apps including ForeFlight and Garmin Pilot.
ForeFlight is showing off its new “Voyager” capabilities at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024 in Wisconsin, with additional app enhancements teed up to release after the big show.
A new advisory circular makes clear what pilots have wondered since electronic flight bags first proliferated in cockpits more than 10 years ago—they are approved to replace virtually all paper reference materials.
ForeFlight subscribers will be able to get detailed engine-out instructions and view them on a 3D map as a result of an upgrade to the popular aviation app demonstrated at the National Business Aviation Association Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas.
ForeFlight, the creator of a popular flight planning and navigation app for general aviation (and more recently a Boeing company), has acquired CloudAhoy and will integrate all of CloudAhoy’s data management capabilities into ForeFlight.
Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen, a navigation charts and information provider, was affected for several days by a "cyber incident" that began on November 2. A week later, the precise effects on aviation remained unclear.
ForeFlight has added two new safety features in its latest release: weight-and-balance functions enhanced by stored profiles and visualization, and hazard advisories useful for preflight planning as well as in flight.
ForeFlight has accelerated its pace of innovation and made scores of upgrades to its app during the coronavirus pandemic despite its far-flung workforce working remotely.
Good news: It’s never been easier to get all the weather information you need for a do-it-yourself preflight weather briefing. Now for the bad news: It’s never been easier to get all the weather information you need for a do-it-yourself preflight weather briefing.
Get more accurate fuel prices—100LL, Jet A, mogas, and UL94—in the AOPA Airports and Destinations Directory and iFlightPlanner for AOPA with daily updates that will now be provided by iFlightPlanner.
Seattle Avionics, producer of the FlyQ electronic flight bag, ChartData subscription services, and other aviation software offerings, has been acquired by AFV Partners, a venture that invests in a variety of information technology enterprises.
One of the most-requested features of iFlightPlanner for AOPA—the ability to send flight plans from the online planner to an electronic flight bag—is now available.
Pilots who fly for the FAA validating instrument procedures and navigation aid accuracy have a new electronic flight bag customized by Hilton Software for their specific needs.
The next time you open ForeFlight, you’ll be able to see a real-time view of air traffic in the pattern at your local airport—or any other airport you’re curious about.
Garmin Pilot is one of aviation’s most successful full-featured flight planning and moving-map applications. Unlike many popular apps, it’s available on both Apple and Android devices, and it can integrate with FltPlan.com and Jeppesen to provide several dynamic features. Garmin hosted a recent webinar on some of Pilot’s tips and tricks. Here are six things we learned.
Leveraging its innovative efforts in artificial intelligence (AI) and its purchase last summer of Aerovie, maker of the Aerovie electronic flight bag (EFB), Appareo has introduced Stratus Insight, its new flight app.
When Apple launched the iPad a decade ago, there was an overwhelming feeling among the broader public that it was an overpriced toy, sitting in no-man’s land between a phone and a PC. In aviation that sentiment was quickly replaced with a realization that this tool would, if not change the way we fly, at least change the way we managed the cockpit.
Jeppesen will be decommissioning its legacy map engine that powers much of the information in the AOPA Flight Planner. Because of this, AOPA will be sunsetting the planner by the end of April.
The latest Garmin Pilot app release adds IFR navigation tools allowing pilots to load, visualize, and activate instrument approaches, departures, and arrivals; create custom holding patterns; and more.
Lower-cost, portable headset-mounted head-up displays for general aviation pilots could result from a forward-looking U.S. Air Force business incubator program. But read this first: PilotVision, currently being developed by California-based SA Photonics, is not yet available for order.
Appareo created software to enhance the capabilities of the Stratus line of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast receivers in 2018. Then, the company’s president went flying with the Aerovie EFB app and decided to purchase more than a subscription.
Gogo Business Aviation, known in the business aviation community for their AVANCE L3 and L5 wireless cabin connectivity routers, now offers a service that runs on ForeFlight.