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These flight planning enhancements help you plan smarter and more efficiently by making helpful information and actions easier to access. For example, when you create a new flight plan on the Flights view and add the departure and destination airports, if the default cruise altitude for the selected aircraft is too high for that route then ForeFlight will automatically suggest a lower altitude. Just tap “Update” in the popup to accept the change and use the new altitude.
If you’re researching FBOs for your flight, you’ll notice three new buttons near the top of the FBO detail view. In order, these allow you to call the FBO, locate the FBO on the Apple Maps app, and email the FBO’s primary email address. You might recognize these buttons from somewhere else if you frequently plan with theFlights view – they appear under Destination Services near the bottom of the planning form any time you select an FBO for the flight.
Moving on to theFlights view filing form, you can now select Mach and KPH for the airspeed units, making it easier to file for jet pilots or those who fly in countries that use kilometers per hour as the standard airspeed units instead of knots.
Once you file your flight plan, ForeFlight makes it easier to differentiate between the route you filed with, the expected route, and the currently-planned route (when different) by displaying each of these routes in their own fields on the planning form. Tap the “Use” button next to either of those fields to adopt that route as the planned route – this makes it easy to amend your flight plan using the expected route to increase the likelihood that ATC will clear you as filed. Once you re-file the plan using that route, the main route field says “Route(Filed & Expected)”, providing a quick confirmation that the route you filed is also the expected route.
On the topic of “cleared as filed” flight plans, you can expect to see more of those when filing with our Recommended Route thanks to a number of tweaks to our routing logic, including the incorporation of recently-cleared routes that differ from the normally preferred route due to weather or other factors. The Recommended Route is one of the great value-adding features of our top tier Performance plans, and you can learn more about how it works here.
Lastly, you can now quickly remove a waypoint or airport from your route by tapping it on the Maps view and tapping “Remove from Route” at the top of the popup.
