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Upcoming Webinars

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ForeFlight webinars are usually hosted on Zoom Webinars. If you need assistance joining a webinar, find more information here.

Wednesday, 15 January

13:00 CST
19:00 UTC

 

Using ForeFlight to Plan a VFR Cross Country Flight

This webinar is geared toward pilots relatively new to ForeFlight as well as student pilots who are headed off on their first cross country flights. ForeFlight’s Jeremy Lippart will walk through the basics of VFR Cross Country planning including identifying necessary airport information, calculating weight and balance information for the planned flight, using a Navlog, and an overview of preflight and en route ForeFlight tools to improve situational awareness.

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Tuesday, 21 January

18:00 CST
17:00 UTC

 

Simplifying VFR Flight Planning in Europe

ForeFlight is a comprehensive flight planning app designed for pilots, offering features from VFR route creation to debriefing tools.This webinar is intended for European pilots new to ForeFlight to learn about how ForeFlight makes planning flights easy, safer, and more efficient.

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Tuesday, 11 February

18:00 CST
17:00 UTC

 

Prepare for the Flying Season in Europe with a Home Flight Simulator

Want to get started flying from the comfort of your home? In this webinar, we will show you how to pair ForeFlight to a home flight simulator. In this webinar, we will unlock how to use ForeFlight to plan flights to unfamiliar destinations, customize your app to meet your needs, and keep your skills sharp!

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Wednesday, 19 February

13:00 CST
19:00 UTC

 

Weight & Balance Configurations for General Aviation Aircraft in ForeFlight

Learn how ForeFlight’s Enhanced Weight & Balance features allows you to create and edit Weight and Balance profiles for your aircraft. Jeremy Lippart will walk through how to build W&B profiles from scratch using your POH as well as create new ones using ForeFlight's pre-built templates for hundreds of aircraft types.

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Tuesday, 25 February

18:00 CST
17:00 UTC

 

Advanced VFR Flight Planning in Europe

Join ForeFlight team member Wolfgang Oestreich as he shares advanced VFR planning insights. In this webinar you will learn about Mass & Balance calculations made simple, previewing your route in 3D, and how Synthetic Vision gives you greater situational awareness.

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Wednesday, 12 March

18:00 CST
17:00 UTC

 

ForeFlight Tips and Tricks for Smoother Flying in Europe

Unlock all the tools ForeFlight has to offer! In this webinar, team member Wolfgang Oestreich will demonstrate some of the lesser known tools within ForeFlight to maximize potential. Learn about flight planning via ForeFlight on Desktop, local hourly weather forecasts, and how to bring ForeFlight with you on your next commercial flight!

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Great stuff! - I have used ForeFlight for a couple of years and thought I knew a lot. I attended my first free training webinar today and realized I only knew a fraction of the capability. The webinar was well organized and easy to follow. Keep up the good work!

 

— FOREFLIGHT WEBINAR REVIEW
 

Recent Webinars

Find the full list of past webinars in our Webinars YouTube playlist.

 

What's New at ForeFlight for Business Aviation?
(November 20, 2024)

Explore the new ForeFlight Dispatch and Mobile advancements launched in 2024, including integrated Trip Support and Tracking for enhanced operational management. Your pilots and operations will benefit from enhancements in Runway Analysis, Weight & Balance, and turbulence visualization tools, designed to optimize safety.

Tackling The Challenges of International Trip Planning
(November 7, 2024)

A session on the major hurdles in global trip planning, including customs clearance pitfalls (EAPIS) and geopolitical concerns. This session will equip attendees with essential knowledge and strategies to overcome these challenges, ensuring smoother and more secure international operations.

ForeFlight for Passengers and Companions
(October 10, 2024)

This presentation is designed for those individuals who fly often but are not necessarily pilots themselves. This is for the friends, coworkers, spouses, and family members of general aviation pilots interested in learning more about ForeFlight and how they can assist their PIC with planning, in-flight procedures, and emergencies. The target audience for this forum is frequent flier passengers interested in learning how to assist in the cockpit.

Preflight Weather And Planning Tools In ForeFlight
(September 19, 2024)

Maximize your preflight efficiency with ForeFlight’s powerful suite of flight planning tools. Dan Garrison from ForeFlight’s Education team guides you through calculating aircraft performance, setting flight variables like planned route and altitude, and leveraging ForeFlight's dynamic weather products to become familiar with all available information for your flight.

Unifying Your Operations in the Foreflight Ecosystem
(July 9, 2024)

Enterprise Sales Executive Grady Hughes from ForeFlight shows how the ForeFlight product ecosystem seamlessly integrates your essential operational tools in one unified platform, providing advanced global flight planning capabilities and enabling a collaborative environment that synchronizes flight operations. The all-in-one product suite includes global flight planning through Dispatch, Runway Analysis for evaluating departure hazards and landing distances, Tracking to keep an eye on aircraft movement, and ForeFlight Mobile, creating a frictionless connection to pilots. 

Integrated Flight Tracking in ForeFlight
(June 25, 2024)

ForeFlight team members Caitlin Galloway and Anna Olgaard will demonstrate how to stay ahead of schedule disruptions with fleetwide status monitoring that's integrated with ForeFlight Dispatch. You'll learn how to gain real-time insights into your entire fleet's status with the dedicated Tracking view, monitor a flight's progress within Dispatch to inform future plans, and compare planned routes with actuals to identify discrepancies and optimize performance planning.

Hazard Awareness Features in ForeFlight
(June 20, 2024)

Learn how ForeFlight's extensive collection of inflight hazard awareness features can improve your safety of flight around terrain, obstacles, and difficult weather. We will show you how to make the most of synthetic vision, reported turbulence, and 3D obstacles to bolster your situational awareness to plan smoother and safer flights.

Streamlining Landing Factors In ForeFlight
(May 16, 2024)

In this webinar, learn how to use the new Landing Factor Selector in ForeFlight Runway Analysis. This tool enables pilots to separately calculate a flight’s landing distance during pre-flight planning and before arrival, aligning with their SOPs and industry guidance to mitigate the risk of runway excursions and promote safer landings. Runway Analysis enhances operational efficiency and minimizes risk by replacing repetitive and error-prone manual data entry with convenient automation based on manufacturer-sourced performance data

Weather & Situational Awareness with ForeFlight in Europe
(March 20, 2024)

Modern flight planning tools make understanding weather and its impact on your flight easier than ever. In the fourth installment of our European webinar series, you will learn how to get the most out of ForeFlight’s extensive weather capabilities as part of your preflight briefing for every flight. We will demonstrate dynamic icing, turbulence, and wind forecasts, walk through a preflight briefing, and share other tools to help you keep track of changing conditions before and after departure.

A Closer Look at ForeFlight Dispatch
(March 20, 2024)

ForeFlight Dispatch Product Manager Caitlin Galloway and Technical Expert Josh Pava will guide you through ForeFlight Dispatch highlighting ForeFlight’s next-generation flight planning solution for Business Aviation. In this webinar, Caitlin and Josh will demonstrate Dispatch’s advanced flight planning capabilities, integration with Weight & Balance and Runway Analysis, ATC data through Flight Watcher, eAPIS, and more.

VFR Flying in Canada
(March 12, 2024)

Join ForeFlight Pilot Support Team members Adrian Tegler and Dominik Ochmanek to learn all about how ForeFlight makes VFR flights in Canada safer, easier, and more enjoyable. Adrian and Dominik will review some of ForeFlight’s most useful features (both old and brand new) for planning and conducting VFR flights, as well as showcase some tools to increase your competency with ForeFlight.

Planning and Filing with ForeFlight in Europe
(Wednesday, 6 March)

It’s time to plan your next adventure in ForeFlight. In this webinar, you will discover features that will enable you to make the decisions you need to plan a flight including finding airports, how to set up the map, multiple methods of planning a route, and getting a weather briefing. We will also review flight plan filing with authorities using ForeFlight, including Eurocontrol validation for IFR flight plans when applicable.

ForeFlight Setup: Aircraft, Mass & Balance for Europe
(Tuesday, 20 February)

Our second webinar in this series for pilots in Europe focuses on crucial aspects of setting up your aircraft in ForeFlight. We’ll demonstrate setting up your aircraft profile to ensure accurate time en route and fuel calculations, which can be particularly helpful when navigating complex European airspace, as well as tips to set up your mass & balance profile correctly, a key part of flight safety.

ForeFlight Fundamentals: European Pilot's
Starter Guide
(February 13, 2024)

Explore the essentials of ForeFlight for pilots in Europe in this webinar. We’ll cover navigating ForeFlight, tips to find the information you need quickly, show you how to optimise flight planning on the Maps tab, and how to customize your in-app experience.

The Simple Transition to ForeFlight from JeppFD
(January 23, 2024)

Join ForeFlight staff to learn how to use key features in ForeFlight as you make the switch from Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck. We’ll walk through how pilots can use ForeFlight to easily perform all the essential functions of JeppFD, including viewing enroute and terminal charts, setting up a route, and more. In addition, we’ll demonstrate how ForeFlight builds on these capabilities with powerful preflight briefing and inflight features, as well as some ways ForeFlight’s integrated product suite can boost your operational efficiency even further.

Getting Started with ForeFlight
(January 16, 2024)

Join ForeFlight support staff to learn everything you need to get spun up and off the ground with ForeFlight. They will demonstrate the essentials of critical workflows like using the map, setting up your aircraft, the multiple approaches to route planning, as well as tips and tricks to maximize your use of ForeFlight in no time.

Presentations

 

EAA AirVenture 2024:
ForeFlight Fundamentals

This presentation covers the core features of ForeFlight to get new and potential ForeFlight customers a strong foundation of the features available. Topics covered include downloading and updating ForeFlight, plans and pricing available, downloading data for use in flight, and tools available flight planning.

EAA AirVenture 2024:
ForeFlight Power Users

Unlock the full potential of ForeFlight with our advanced, scenario-based course. Designed for experienced users, this session dives into viewing plates on the map, adjusting weight and balance, complex IFR route building, and emergency procedures. Enhance your flight efficiency and safety with ForeFlight's advanced features and updates.

EAA AirVenture 2024:
What's New in ForeFlight

Learn about all of ForeFlight’s latest features from ForeFlight’s Head of Community Ryan McBride, including a new capability ForeFlight will release shortly before AirVenture in July to help pilots find new places to fly. This includes access to all AOPA and EAA events right in ForeFlight and much more!

EAA AirVenture 2024:
ForeFlight For Pinch Hitters

This presentation is for frequent flyers who are not pilots but want to assist general aviation pilots. It’s ideal for friends, coworkers, spouses, and family members interested in learning how to help with ForeFlight during planning, in-flight procedures, and emergencies.

EAA AirVenture 2024:
Teaching And Learning With ForeFlight

Whether you’re instructing or learning, transform your aviation education with ForeFlight. Learn how to use ForeFlight’s features for lesson planning, inflight instruction, and post-flight debriefs. See how ForeFlight can enhance understanding, improve safety, and streamline the educational experience while reinforcing fundamental piloting skills.

EAA AirVenture 2024:
Post-flight Tools In ForeFlight

Breeze through your post-flight activities with ForeFlight's suite of tools to help with everything after engine shut down. This session provides an in-depth walkthrough of how to record and review Track Logs, log your flight in Logbook using time-saving automations, share the flight log with your CFI or copilot, and debrief the flight in ForeFlight and CloudAhoy debriefing tools.

EAA AirVenture 2024:
The Jeppesen Advantage In ForeFlight

Learn how to integrate and use industry-leading Jeppesen charts within ForeFlight to enhance your flight planning and navigation experience. This session will cover what makes Jeppesen charts superior for all types of instrument flying and how to seamlessly incorporate Jeppesen charts in ForeFlight Mobile.

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