Incorporates Manufacturer-Sourced Aircraft Performance And Weather Data To Calculate Flight Metrics

ForeFlight has released Takeoff & Landing Performance, a new integrated capability that allows users to quickly and accurately calculate runway distances and aircraft speeds before every flight. The feature is even available offline for better landing preparation.

ForeFlight takes what can often be error prone interpolation and paper chart reading tasks and performs the computations quickly and accurately, integrating the data lookups seamlessly into the flight planning workflow, so users can plan and fly with more confidence.

"The integrated runway performance feature in ForeFlight is a major safety-enhancing capability that makes it easier for pilots to compute potentially life-saving takeoff and landing distances and speeds before every flight,” said Tyson Weihs, co-founder and CEO of ForeFlight. “This is a step-change in capability for mobile flight planning apps. With ForeFlight, you can effortlessly generate wind-optimized routes with highly accurate time and fuel burn, as well as takeoff and landing distances and speeds, all in one solution."

Takeoff & Landing Performance incorporates manufacturer-sourced aircraft performance and weather data to calculate important flight metrics like ground roll, 50ft speed, total runway distance, climb speed, climb rate, and more.

At launch, ForeFlight supports nearly two-hundred models of popular single- and multi-engine piston and single-engine turboprop aircraft. ForeFlight’s aircraft performance data team uses the official published takeoff and landing data from the aircraft’s Pilot Operating Handbook (POH) to build the models.

Weather data is pre-filled from ground (METAR, TAF, MOS) or inflight (ADS-B, satellite) sources, and the pilot can manually override the prefilled data with the latest information from tower or ATIS. Other inputs like runway lengths are also customizable for easy scenario planning.

Takeoff & Landing Performance also uses calculated takeoff and landing weight values, derived from the route, payload, and fuel planning fields on the Flights view, for highly accurate results.

ForeFlight provides a number of warnings within the Takeoff & Landing Performance feature to alert users to potential issues. If any of the distance values calculated for takeoff or landing exceed the runway’s usable length, a warning banner is shown and the relevant values are highlighted red. Warnings related to engine-out scenarios for multi-engine aircraft are also shown.

Takeoff & Landing Performance is included in ForeFlight’s Performance subscription plans.

(Source: ForeFlight news release. Image provided)

FMI: foreflight.com