July 2023

ForeFlight on Apple Watch

• Experience the convenience of ForeFlight on your Apple Watch. Check local weather and complement your preflight planning with favorite and nearby airport details like runways, NOTAMs, and much more.
• ForeFlight will appear automatically in your Watch apps list unless your settings require you to install apps manually.
• The ForeFlight Apple Watch home screen has four main sections: Local Weather, Favorite Airports, Nearby Airports, and Recent Airports. It also has a search bar so you can manually look for an airport that may not be in your Favorites or Recents.
• With Local Weather, you can get a quick overview of winds, sky cover, pressure, humidity, temperature/dewpoint, and sunrise/sunset times at your location. Swiping right will give you an hourly forecast, while swiping right again will give you the 10-day forecast.
• Below Local Weather you will find your Favorite Airports and Recent Airports. Tap any of these airports for a brief overview of the weather (METARs, MOS, Daily, TAFs), frequencies, runways, and NOTAMs. You can also manually search for an airport using the search bar on the main screen.
• Current conditions at an airport are indicated with a weather icon, and flight category is shown with a colored bubble indicating VFR, MVFR, IFR, or LIFR conditions.

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Synthetic Vision Enhancements

• Upgraded 3D obstacles with nighttime lighting provide a more realistic depiction to help you stay aware of your position and surroundings.
• Obstacles and hazards are displayed in Synthetic Vision using three different shape styles to represent buildings, towers, and windmills. 
• Obstacles in Synthetic Vision also now show progressive hazard shading when they fall within your set Hazard Altitudes, as opposed to being colored entirely red or yellow.
• Additionally, ForeFlight will add red or white lights to obstacles that have them when flying at night.
• Synthetic Vision is available with Essential plans and above.

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Terrain/Obstacle Strikes in Profile View

• Profile View has been updated to display multiple terrain and obstacle strikes more clearly.
• Easily identify any strike locations with red X markers. The remainder of your route is also no longer shaded with red hatches, reducing visual clutter.
• Strikes will only appear if there is a potential terrain or obstacle strike within your Profile Corridor width, which can be adjusted in the Hazard Settings.
• Profile View is available with Essential plans and above.

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New Runway Analysis Aircraft Support

• ForeFlight’s advanced Runway Analysis product for turbine aircraft now supports Textron King Air 350ER, Cessna CJ1+, and Cessna C700.

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