What is cockpit sharing?

ForeFlight has an interesting but little-known feature called Cockpit Sharing that allows pilots to quickly share and load flight plans

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Flight plans are documents filed by a pilot or flight dispatcher with the local Air Navigation Service Provider (e.g., the FAA in the United States) prior to departure which indicate the plane's planned route or flight path. Flight plan format is specified in ICAO Doc 4444.

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from one device to another when on the same WiFi network.

What is ForeFlight cockpit sharing?

Flight Sharing in ForeFlight allows you to easily share your planned and filed flights with fellow pilots, co-pilots, or crew members for improved collaboration and more efficient flight planning. Flight Sharing is available for all ForeFlight subscription plans.

How does flight sharing work?

Overview. Code sharing is a marketing arrangement in which an airline places its designator code on a flight operated by another airline, and sells tickets for that flight. Airlines throughout the world continue to form code-share arrangements to strengthen or expand their market presence and competitive ability.

Can two people use ForeFlight?

One subscription - many devices! Access your ForeFlight account on up to two iPhones and one iPad or two iPads and one iPhone, plus an unlimited number of logins to ForeFlight Web, allowing you to plan flights anywhere and stay safe with backup devices on every flight.

Do airline pilots use ForeFlight?

ForeFlight Mobile, the company's flagship product, is used by individual pilots and professional flight crews to gather weather and destination information efficiently.

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Can you use ForeFlight without a subscription?

While the ForeFlight Mobile app is free to download from the app store, a subscription is required to use the app. You can learn more about plans and pricing on our Subscription Purchase Page.

Does ForeFlight work without subscription?

To use a Sentry, for example, just turn it on and connect to your iPad via WiFi (in the Settings app). When you open ForeFlight you'll see the ADS-B receiver connected, and you can display radar, METARs, and traffic on the Maps page. All of these features are available no matter what subscription you have.

Is ForeFlight Legal?

ForeFlight's weather, NOTAM, and airport information comes from federal regulatory agencies. Pilots want to know that they will have proof or a record of their briefing. This is important so that in the event of an incident, they can prove they met the requirements under §91.103.

Does ForeFlight show traffic?

In partnership with FlightAware, ForeFlight allows you to view airborne traffic around the globe, and ground traffic at thousands of airports worldwide, to help you gauge airport activity like active arrivals and runways, see how ATC vectors traffic around weather, or assist with planespotting on the ground.

Can ForeFlight be used as a GPS?

ForeFlight Connect is a platform that enables portable and installed avionics to connect with ForeFlight Mobile and deliver capabilities like two-way flight plan transfer, ADS-B weather and traffic, backup attitude, and GPS position.

Can I use a Wi-Fi only iPad for ForeFlight?

You must have a Wi-Fi + Cellular iPad (or an iPhone) to get a location fix in-flight because the Wi-Fi-only iPad model does not have an internal GPS receiver. A Wi-Fi-only iPad will only get a rough location fix when on the ground and near Wi-Fi access points.

How many iPads can you have on ForeFlight?

The individual subscriptions allow you to use ForeFlight Mobile on 2 iPads and 1 iPhone, or 2 iPhones and 1 iPad, simultaneously. The iPads can be any mix of models. All devices are to be used by the same pilot.

Is ForeFlight legal for IFR?

ForeFlight supports filing IFR flights to and from the US and within Canada, Caribbean, Bahamas, and Mexico, as well as within and between all EUROCONTROL member states and Greenland using the ICAO flight plan format.

What company owns ForeFlight?

The co-founder of ForeFlight says the breakneck pace of enhancements to the flight planning app will not change now that his company is owned by airliner behemoth Boeing.

Does ForeFlight show true airspeed?

The last step of the flight planning process with ForeFlight is to choose an altitude. At the top left of the Route Editor window you'll see your default aircraft N# (if you entered one), along with that aircraft's true airspeed, fuel burn and altitude.

Is 32gb iPad enough for ForeFlight?

Storage options are 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB (options vary based on iPad model). We strongly recommend the 128GB option or higher. ForeFlight Mobile requires about 15.5GB for all of the U.S. airport diagrams, A/FD sheets, instrument procedures, documents, VFR sectionals, and IFR enroute charts.

How accurate is ForeFlight GPS?

Seeing GPS accuracy values of either 92.6m, 30m, 10m, or 3m within ForeFlight is normal and within acceptable NACp limits.

Does ForeFlight work on iPhone?

If you have never done so, or do not know the Apple ID used to install the app previously, you will not be able to install ForeFlight unless you have another device with iOS 11 and can use the same Apple ID. Devices that are not compatible with any version of ForeFlight Mobile are: iPad 1. iPhone 4.

Can ForeFlight drive an autopilot?

Flight plans sent from ForeFlight can be edited on SkyView and flown by the SkyView Autopilot. You can transfer updated flight plans between the devices at any time. Pilots can also benefit from SkyView's built-in WAAS GPS, which can drive aircraft position in your app (if supported by the app).

Is ForeFlight magnetic or true?

On the Airports page and in the NavLog in the Flights tab where the wind Dir/Speed is given, winds aloft are displayed as true north. Elsewhere in the app, if you are viewing a calculated headwind, tailwind, or heading for a route, the winds aloft information will be determined for magnetic north.

Is ForeFlight logbook legal?

Therefore, it is perfectly legal to maintain the required logbook information in the format of your choosing.

Does ForeFlight do takeoff distance?

Seamlessly integrated into ForeFlight's flight planning workflow, Takeoff and Landing Distances incorporates aircraft performance and weather data to calculate important flight metrics and ensure they're within the aircraft's and runway's limits.

What are the yellow circles in ForeFlight?

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Yellow rings indicate future TFRs that go into effect more than 24 hours from the current time, and the red rings indicate TFRs that are either currently active or will be active in the next 24 hours.