Should I upgrade to iOS 8?
iOS 8 will be released soon and pilots often question when the best time is to make the upgrade. To help with this, ForeFlight CEO/founder Tyson Weihs shares his insight on the process and gives his recommendations.
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What aviation features would you use in an Apple Watch?
Apple announced their much-anticipated smartwatch today, which will pair up with your iPhone to display messages and allow you to interact with apps right from your wrist. What aviation features would you use on the new watch in flight?
Get more out of ForeFlight with free training guides
ForeFlight is well-known within the the mobile app industry for providing excellent product support. Here we’ll take a look at few of the lesser-known training guides included with the app and where to find them.
New app helps you shoot smoother in-flight videos
Shooting video in the airplane can be challenging in turbulent air. A new app can help with this by automatically smoothing out video shot with your iPhone or iPad.
Garmin Pilot expands coverage into Canada
Garmin continues to lead the US app market with the most feature-rich international coverage options. The latest update adds a new option that provides charts, navigation data, weather, terrain and more for Canada.
Sporty’s updates Android pilot training apps
Sporty’s recently updated its collection of Android applications for pilots, centered around improving the user-experience and making them more tablet-friendly.
WingX Pro tip: customizing the moving map window layouts
The WingX Pro moving map page provides a wide variety of configuration options to display multiple windows simultaneously. Here we’ll show you the various options and how to set them up.
Jeppesen offers lower-cost app subscriptions
Jeppesen charts have traditionally been used by airline and corporate pilots flying both in the US and around the globe. In an effort to better-appeal to general aviation pilots, Jepp recently announced lower pricing on US subscriptions for the Mobile FD app.
iPad Troubleshooting: cycle the power
This week’s iPad tip explains how a simple power reset can solve app problems, wireless accessory issues and sluggish performance.
ForeFlight adds weight and balance and track logs
The latest update to ForeFlight adds a new track logging feature and weight and balance utility. These add some some useful preflight and postflight capabilities to an app that already excels at in-flight use.
AOPA exits the EFB market
AOPA announced last week that they are exiting EFB market, and will instead offer a new free app focused on member needs next year.
New SiriusXM wireless weather receiver for iPad
While ADS-B is a great subscription-free source for datalink weather for iPad, some pilots depend on the additional features and utility of a satellite-based weather feed. A new wireless receiver from SiriusXM was just announced and makes it easier than ever to receive and display this data on your iPad.
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