ForeFlight Announces version 7.0 @ Sun-n-Fun

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The original "I don't know it all" of aviation.
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Features include
  • PC based flight planning that can be passed to the tablet
  • Ability to visualize Instrument procedures (SIDS STARS IAPs)
  • "Delta Pack" which is smaller and faster downloads of chart data
  • Chart View, allowing us to see the legends and margins of Sectionals and L-Charts
 
Plus digging a bit on the ForeFlight Blog finds Scott Dennstaedt (ScottD on PoA) posting some useful usage tips from his weather standpoint
 
Sounds like some good improvements to me. Still waiting for the external GPS fix.
 
PC-based features will give me cause to consider switching
 
The PC capabilities will cement Foreflight as my platform forever. Also, the IFR graphics for STAR's and SID's are incredibly useful.

Yeah, Foreflight!
 
And now being iOS8 min requirement, just alienated older iPad users
 
Scrabo said:
And now being iOS8 min requirement, just alienated older iPad users
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Maybe some of them. But my Ipad2 works better on 8.3 than it did on 7 thru 8.2, but if it doesn't cut the mustard with the FF update, I will buy a new Ipad. My Ipad2 has 64GB. Maybe 64GB helps. :dunno:
 
Scrabo said:
And now being iOS8 min requirement, just alienated older iPad users
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How old is your iPad?

I have an iPad2, and I have long since got my money's worth out of the device, for Foreflight and for other uses.

It owes me nothing more, and, when it gets dropped or becomes obsolete, I will happily give Apple more money as they have pretty much eliminated my need for an extra laptop in the living room.
 
Nice! Can't wait to be able to plan on the PC and have it go to the pad!
 
My thought about the PC feature is the ability to do pre-flight planning and briefings, then easily transfer my final item(s) and plan to the iPad.
 
Scrabo said:
And now being iOS8 min requirement, just alienated older iPad users
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I'm running iOS8 on my 1st gen iPad mini with no noticeable issues.

At some point as a developer you have to leave legacy guys behind or you hinder development of the platform.
 
This is a game changer imo.

That being said I am hesitant to update anything for fear of losing the external GPS signal.
 
Am I the only one who uses the sennheiser app? I've been planning flights on my PC and pushing to the tablet for like two years. I can also push to a garmin 430 or 530. I liked FF when I used it, but it was too expensive with not enough features. Maybe I'm missing something.

TJ


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Tj1376 said:
Am I the only one who uses the sennheiser app? I've been planning flights on my PC and pushing to the tablet for like two years. I can also push to a garmin 430 or 530. I liked FF when I used it, but it was too expensive with not enough features. Maybe I'm missing something.

TJ


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I just Googled the Sennheiser app. I don't see anything about it. First question is how, then the second question is how.

How do you push to a 430??? Do you have a "box" in your plane?
 
Scrabo said:
And now being iOS8 min requirement, just alienated older iPad users
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Apple alienated old iPad users. I was using ForeFlight with a Gen1 iPad with no issues. Apple iOS stopped updating on the Gen1 iPads, the system got slower, programs would close on their own. Reboots required.

After 4 years I upgraded to the Air2.

Sure FF 7 may require iOS8. It needs the processing power and speed to be viable.
 
BillTIZ said:
Apple alienated old iPad users. I was using ForeFlight with a Gen1 iPad with no issues. Apple iOS stopped updating on the Gen1 iPads, the system got slower, programs would close on their own. Reboots required.

After 4 years I upgraded to the Air2.

Sure FF 7 may require iOS8. It needs the processing power and speed to be viable.
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Surely it could be coded to query the version of iOS and enable/disable these new CPU/graphic intense features rather than have it all features, all the time.

Backward compatibility can be done.

With iOS 9 only 6 months away, even more processing power will be required and suddenly all these iPad Air2 unit are slower.
 
JoseCuervo said:
How old is your iPad?

I have an iPad2, and I have long since got my money's worth out of the device, for Foreflight and for other uses.

It owes me nothing more, and, when it gets dropped or becomes obsolete, I will happily give Apple more money as they have pretty much eliminated my need for an extra laptop in the living room.
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I upgrade with each iPad generation. The old ones "retire" by becoming handy internet access machines in different rooms. One even went to my elderly mom, who loves being able to see everything I do in real time (Skype, PhotoStream).

Even my iPad 1 sits upstairs and is used for televised podcasts, e-mail, Internet browsing.

Lot's of great things to do with "retired" iPads!
 
VWGhiaBob said:
I upgrade with each iPad generation. The old ones "retire" by becoming handy internet access machines in different rooms. One even went to my elderly mom, who loves being able to see everything I do in real time (Skype, PhotoStream).

Even my iPad 1 sits upstairs and is used for televised podcasts, e-mail, Internet browsing.

Lot's of great things to do with "retired" iPads!
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How much are you paying for data plans?
 
RudyP said:
None of the iPads have contracts on data plans. Just turn off the data portion if you retire them to in-home lightweight duty.
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Exactly. Run them on WiFi.

Keep one by the toilet to browse Trade-A-Plane every morning.
 
Scrabo said:
Surely it could be coded to query the version of iOS and enable/disable these new CPU/graphic intense features rather than have it all features, all the time.

Backward compatibility can be done.

With iOS 9 only 6 months away, even more processing power will be required and suddenly all these iPad Air2 unit are slower.
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I'd rather the developers work on new features than work on ways to make their program compatible with old operating systems.
 
jesse said:
That looks like way more work than just inputing it into the 430 manually.
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I think it honestly is... But I don't fly super long distances. I do love planning on the PC though and then pushing the flight to my iPad. Makes it quite a bit easier imo.

TJ


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jesse said:
That looks like way more work than just inputing it into the 430 manually.
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Agreed. I never put in more than a few waypoints before take-off. I've got plenty of time once I'm at cruising altitude to enter the rest of my flight legs. Besides, my routes are usually amended when IFR.

When VFR, my route consists of two items, my departure and my destination (and maybe another waypoint to route around some SUA).

Then again, as I've mentioned on other threads, I don't bother much with PC flight planning software. Foreflight on the iPad works just fine.
 
Turningfinal said:
I'd rather the developers work on new features than work on ways to make their program compatible with old operating systems.
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That's funny! :rofl:
If all the new programs worked on the old systems, no one would buy new systems! :mad2:
 
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