April 2018

Powerful App Search Delivers Results You Need - Fast

• Fast search across the app helps you quickly find routes, cities, airports, aeronautical information, landmarks, aircraft, and procedures.
• Search for cities, street addresses, and street intersections to find your destination or pinpoint a location for urban search and rescue.
• Enter a departure and destination and search returns the distance between them.
• Find aircraft and scheduled flight information by searching for an aircraft registration or callsign plus flight number.
• Search aeronautical features like airports, navaids, waypoints, and more.
• Quickly find instrument procedures from the Plates tab by searching with keywords like “GPS”, “RNAV”, or “ILS”.

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Automatic Downloads Reduces Preflight Workload

• Keeps your charts and data current automatically.
• Database and document updates download automatically when they become available and when connected to Wi-Fi.

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Enhanced Airspace Navigation Features:

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Airspace in Profile View

• Profile View now displays an interactive vertical depiction of controlled, MOA, SUA, and TFR airspaces along your route.
• Tap on Airspace in Profile to view details like altitudes, airspace type, and TFR effective times.
• With airspace selected, the main map automatically zooms to and highlights the airspace, allowing you to see exactly where your route intersects from a top-down perspective.

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Automatic Airspace Highlighting

• Automatically highlights airspace near the aircraft or along the route of flight and dims all other airspace to reduce clutter on the map.
• Highlights airspace within an altitude of +/- 1,000’ and a 1-nautical mile corridor of your planned route of flight.
• Considers the flight’s climb, cruise, and descent trajectory to highlight nearby airspace.
• Works in both planning mode on the ground and in flight.

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Global Airspace Details

• Maps tab now features Jeppesen-sourced global airspace information for FIRs, UIRs, controlled airspace, and special use airspace.
• Tap anywhere on the Maps view to access center and radio frequencies, RVSM cruise tables, operational notes, speed restrictions, prior notification procedures, and communication details for CPDLC and satellite services.

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Send Advance Notification to FBOs with Integrated Fuel Orders

• Submit fuel order requests right from the Flights tab as part of your flight planning workflow.
• Communicate all of the relevant details (ETA, fuel type, quantity, etc) via a simple form that is transmitted directly to the destination FBO.
• With a configured JetFuelX account, you can also request a fuel release from the fuel provider and send a notification to the FBO in just a few taps.

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GDL 90 Extension for Third-Party Devices

• ForeFlight now provides an expanded version of the industry-standard GDL 90 Data Interface Specification for third-party devices to transmit live inflight data to ForeFlight Mobile.
• Properly configured devices will be able to display ADS-B weather and traffic, AHRS, device name information, and GPS data in the ForeFlight Mobile app.
• The specification is available on the ForeFlight website at foreflight.com/connect/spec.

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Other enhancements include:

• On iPhones with 3D Touch, press firmly on the ForeFlight icon for quick access to New Flight, Nearest Airports, Maps, and Logbook views.
• Pack now includes a map overview depicting the download corridor.
• For Performance customers, PDC badges will appear on Airport locations that support the service.