Includes Aeronautical Map Toggles, Flight Delay Notifications, And More

ForeFlight 10.1 is available for download now on the App Store. This update delivers enhancements to planning, mapping, and navigation, including Aeronautical Map Toggles, Flight Delay Notifications, and more.

With the new version, users can instantly declutter the map by filtering airports, airspace, airways, ARTCC boundaries, terrain, and roads directly on the Aeronautical Map layer. In addition, dynamic airspace altitude labels are now always visible along airspace boundaries.

ForeFlight’s fast, data-driven Aeronautical Map with continuous zoom technology and high-quality Jeppesen navigation data is available with Plus plans.    

All customers who file US flight plans with ForeFlight will benefit by receiving Expect Departure Clearance Time (EDCT) notifications via email and push when any Traffic Management Initiatives are in effect. Customers who file Europe flight plans will similarly receive Calculated Take Off Time (CTOT) notifications. In addition, when an expected route update is received, the user can tap the message to load the change into Flights and automatically refresh the Navlog and Briefing.

The new Transition Altitude alert provides an audio and visual callout when the aircraft climbs or descends through the transition altitude. The alert also includes the nearest altimeter setting on descent.

The new version's inflight safety tech now detects and warns of threatening obstacles and terrain using visual and audio alerts that display app-wide. The system detects proximity to airports and the approach path and automatically adjusts the scan to reduce nuisance alerts.

Trip Assistant helps any scheduler, executive assistant, or pilot more easily plan and prepare for upcoming flights. This simple-to-use tool factors in traffic during drive times, as well as flight times and time spent at each airport, to create a detailed itinerary and precise departure and arrival times.

Airport markers in the Synthetic Vision view are larger for better visibility, and users can single-tap on them to access detailed Airport information just like on the Aeronautical Map layer. Synthetic Vision and the complete mobile hazard awareness package (including Profile View and Hazard Alerts) is available with the Pro Plus plan or higher.

Customers who fly with SiriusXM’s SXAR1 aviation weather receiver can now overlay a detailed Freezing Level layer on the map. Colored gradients depict the lowest altitude at which freezing and icing may occur across the continental U.S., southern Canada, and northern Mexico.

(Source: ForeFlight media release. Images provided)

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