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Bro do you even lift
Would a stick shaker be too much to ask? I want a stick shaker on my tablet.
Lightning, along with the radar, in flight.
The problem is that ADS-B doesn't provide lightning data. XM offers it, but it costs too much.
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I gave a presentation on this topic at Sun N Fun last Thursday. I am part of the RTCA working group that is putting together all of the implementation details about the new FIS-B offerings. The statement from AOPA is almost correct. It'll include lightning, CIP analysis (not FIP) and a GTG analysis as well as a 1-hr cloud top forecast from the HRRR model. One minute weather isn't likely anytime soon, but last year I had requested they add G-AIRMETs (legacy AIRMETs are being retired) and CWAs. Appears that the latter two won't make it in the next release, but could be sometime in 2018.
The current schedule for the 4 additional products (lighting, cloud tops, icing, and turbulence) has them being deployed to a Key Site (one of the FIS-B Regional Control Centers) in September, and deployment to the remainder of the NAS (subject to FAA approval, of course) by November.
Nice. I have started to do a lot of pre-flight planning with Aerovie due to it's vertical weather profile. It's not quite ready to be a replacement for my primary EFB app, but it is an excellent app that keeps getting better and better.![]()
Nice. I have started to do a lot of pre-flight planning with Aerovie due to it's vertical weather profile. It's not quite ready to be a replacement for my primary EFB app, but it is an excellent app that keeps getting better and better.![]()
Hmm, do you want FF to track density altitude for you also? At some point the pilot has to actually think about the flight plan.
I agree all features of ForeFlight should be accessible from the the web (or atleast most the features).
Would a stick shaker be too much to ask? I want a stick shaker on my tablet.
Density altitude has relevance enroute and that is to what I was referring.The sad part is, that functionality (vertical weather) was available in the company-who-shall-not-be-named who sued everyone over magenta lines, years and years ago.
I've never been able to figure out if other EFB makers just never bothered to look at the competition at all, or if they were scared they'd hit another bad software patent fight by including it.
That software also allowed you to put real book numbers or other numbers of your own choosing in for climb and descent calculations (although not the crossing restriction thing you want) way back then, too. On a crappy Win98 touchpad.
Many of the features that folks asked the tablet software makers to duplicate (touch an airport for information on the airport, etc) all were in that software. It was just built on a completely sucky hardware platform.
If that company had put half the effort into moving to real tablets instead of screwing around with suing online flight planning tools that didn't compete with their stuff in the cockpit at all... they'd have been two or three YEARS ahead of even the early versions of ForeFlight.
But they didn't. Their loss.
Umm Clark... ForeFlight does DA calc with METAR temps and pressures for all airports and has since October of 2008.. See bottom item...
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The web planner is pretty awful.
I know I don't want to ask, but why do you want your stick shaken?![]()
I was thinking about this the other day. I know FF captures a track log for viewing after the flight. But seeing the bread crumbs during the flight would be a useful thing every once and a while.* Display track log on map
Nice. I have started to do a lot of pre-flight planning with Aerovie due to it's vertical weather profile. It's not quite ready to be a replacement for my primary EFB app, but it is an excellent app that keeps getting better and better.![]()
I agree, seems like a useful and obvious feature to have. Maybe not for instrument flights and other general across countries where you already have a fair bit of clutter on the map, but for aerial maneuvers, training, and other stuff it would be nice to haveseeing the bread crumbs during the flight would be a useful thing every once and a while.
Welp, ForeFlight already got breadcrumbs, and just got proto-social network functionality with "Discover".* Display track log on map
* Email/calendar client
* Integrated development environment
* Lisp interpreter
Being able to search your logbook and pull out the flights that count. Like if you want to see just the flights that count for XC or instruments or whatever.
Those three can be found in MyFlightBook.I've used a few and find Foreflight to be the most intuitive.. there's little I'd change, however, I find the logbook within it, in fact I find ALL logbooks, paper included, to be sorely lacking... for instance:
-make searching and tagging flights easier
-tie endorsements and 'qualifying' flights more readily into the entries
-create exportable 3D maps and make KML exports easier (or exportable at all!)
I do love the endorsements feature and the logbook is decent in Foreflight, but, there are a few features, like above, I'd like to see
Foreflight also got "AI" for the airport comments.Welp, ForeFlight already got breadcrumbs, and just got proto-social network functionality with "Discover".
Can't wait to like/comment/subscribe!![]()
Foreflight also got "AI" for the airport comments.
Here's Foreflight's blog post about it in case you were suffering from insomnia.Artificial Insemination, Intelligence, or Attitude Indicator?