ForeFlight Video Tip: Importing Your Own Documents

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ForeFlight comes preloaded with a wide range of helpful documents, but did you know you can also import and organize your own files? Whether it’s an aircraft manual, a checklist, or a training supplement, this video tip shows you how to bring your documents into ForeFlight and keep them neatly organized using binders.

ForeFlight Video Tip: Adding Procedures for VFR Pilots

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ForeFlight isn’t just for IFR flying—VFR pilots can also take advantage of powerful planning features, including traffic pattern entries and runway selection tools. In this video tip, we’ll show you how to add pattern entries to your route, select the best runway for the winds, and use visual cues on the map to enhance situational awareness during arrival.

ForeFlight Video Tip: Entering a Hold with Hold Advisor

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ForeFlight’s Hold Advisor can be used to add the details of the hold to the flight plan. If you receive a clearance to hold at a waypoint currently entered in your flight plan, tap that waypoint ID in the Route Editor and select the Hold function. You can then enter the details of the holding clearance, including the inbound or outbound course, either a time or distance, left or right turns, altitude, speeds restrictions, and an expected further clearance time. Learn more in this ForeFlight video tip.

ForeFlight Video Tip: Customizing the Maps Screen

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Items displayed on the Data-Driven Aeronautical Map, such as weather, charts, and traffic can be quickly customized using the Map Filter buttons. Learn more about customizing the Maps screen in this this ForeFlight video tip from Sporty’s Flying with ForeFlight online training course.

ForeFlight Video Tip: Accessing Airport Information

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The Airports tab in ForeFlight provides a wealth of important information including runway information, frequencies, weather, and instrument procedures, but there are also some overlooked details that could be cricital when evaluating your destination

Webinar Video: Flying with the iPad as a Digital Copilot

This fast-paced presentation covers a wide range of practical topics on flying with the iPad and the ForeFlight Mobile app. Led by Bret Koebbe, an active pilot and flight instructor at Sporty’s and Editor of iPad Pilot News, this presentation will explore topics applicable to pilots of all iPad experience levels.

Webinar Video: What’s New in ForeFlight

Learn about all of ForeFlight’s latest features from ForeFlight’s Head of Community, Ryan McBride, including the exciting new Discover tab that helps you find new places to fly—from pancake breakfasts to airshows and more. With integrated AOPA and EAA events, Discover also puts ForeFlight’s extensive video library directly inside the app for easy access to product education.

Video: Sentry ADS-B Receivers for ForeFlight – comparing all three models

Sentry is a family of compact, affordable ADS-B receivers specifically made for ForeFlight. In addition to popular features like subscription-free weather and traffic, some Sentry models also include a carbon monoxide detector to warn of dangerous conditions in the cockpit and an automatic flight data recorder.

Webinar recording: flying with ADS-B and SiriusXM

Datalink weather has the potential to make your flying safer and more comfortable—but only if you know how to use it properly. Join Air Facts editor John Zimmerman for an in-depth look at ADS-B, SiriusXM, and how to use them in flight with popular iPad apps. Topics include: weather accident trends, five rules of datalink weather, differences between ADS-B and SiriusXM, and real world weather flying scenarios.

Video: Flying an instrument approach with Foreflight synthetic vision on iPad – connected to Sentry Plus

ForeFlight synthetic vision takes situational awareness to the next level - especially when connected to a Sentry Plus ADS-B receiver. This portable device provides real-time pitch and bank information and now it even uses baro-corrected altitude for the ultimate backup display. 

How to use ADS-B traffic when flying with a portable Sentry receiver (video tip)

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Portable ADS-B receivers provide subscription-free weather and traffic information to pilots, displayed on mobile devices like iPad or iPhones. Here we'll take a look at how to use the traffic display and alerting features when flying with a Sentry portable ADS-B receiver and ForeFlight.

Video: How to use ForeFlight to make your single pilot flying safer

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When set up and used properly, your iPad and an aviation app like ForeFlight can serve as a digital copilot during all phases of flight, from preflight to landing. In this video, we'll show how to take advantage of several of the smart features in Foreflight to help you make better decisions and use its flight monitoring capabilities to keep you out of trouble.