Yeah, that guy is the worst!
Foreflight is pretty awesome though. I've been having a good time lately planning my upcoming trip to Idaho and downloading old USGS maps and importing them into ForeFlight via their User Content interface. One of the ones I imported as a test was a 1905 map of my part of Wisconsin. So cool to fly around using Wright Brothers era maps with Foreflight putting the aviation graphics over the top.
Whoa, cool! You must show me how to do this. And where you got an electronic copy of a 1905 map!
No free subscription even?
I'm not "cantankerous towards" you. I just can't understand you persistent shilling of Foreflight. And you're definitely a persistant shill.
Or he just really likes the product. As do I. Which is why I volunteer some of my time as a beta tester for them, so I can help make it better. Yes, I get a free subscription. No, it's not even close to worth it for the time I spend making sure it isn't cantankerous, even when the pilot is.
lol, if Foreflight gave me a free subscription for life I’d happily rename my dog Foreflight and run up and down the floors of every FBO in FL naked whilst waving flags that say Foreflight on them.
$300 a year is no joke.
I once spent $225 on charts for a single trip in the pre-ForeFlight era. The cost of flying, period, is no joke.
Also, ForeFlight starts at $99/year. The $99 Basic Plus plan is geared toward your average recreational VFR pilot, though it does include everything you need for IFR as well as logbook and weight & balance features.
$199 gets you Pro Plus which adds "geo-referenced plates and airport diagrams, Plates on Maps, Hazard Advisor™, flight plan notifications, route Profile View, and Cloud Documents, which allows you to sync documents you’ve uploaded through ForeFlight Manage to all your devices."
https://www.foreflight.com/support/faqs/pricing/
The $299 Performance Plus plan is really meant for those who fly stinky-fuel burners up in the flight levels. It provides what I believe to be the most accurate time enroute and fuel burn numbers available anywhere, since it's taking both performance and winds aloft into account at all altitudes during climb and descent. It's fun to play with and pretend I have a jet, though, and it does allow you to put in a detailed performance profile for your own airplane or use one of the pre-done ones they have if you're really into efficiency. However, with a blue-juice burner where the fuel burn and performance doesn't vary nearly as much with altitude, you probably wouldn't save the extra $100 in the course of a year... Maybe if you had something with a turbo and had a wide variety of altitudes available. Maybe. But as an example, using the Basic profile for my plane for a hypothetical trip from Wisconsin to Philly for the Wings FlyBQ, I would have picked 13,000 as the best altitude, since it tied 11,000 for the lowest fuel burn (48.4 gal) but was a minute shorter (3:37). Looking at the Performance profile, I see that 11,000 would actually be the shortest at 3:41 and burn 45.8 gal, while 17,000 and FL190 tie for the lowest fuel burn (41.8 gal).
But in reality, that "mistake" would have cost me 1.4 gallons of 100LL, so Performance saved me about six bucks on what would be one of my 10 longest flights for the year. So, fun for us true geeks, but probably not financially worthwhile for the normally aspirated piston flyers here (myself included).
Mike is very enthusiastic about ForeFlight; I'm not sure when it happened, but he apparently took that over from Kent, who used to be a one-man marketing department for FireFlight.
I take full credit for their 90% market penetration.
(That is their market penetration in my flying club, at least... Even the guy who works for Google has an iPad with ForeFlight.) 90% ForeFlight, 3.33% Garmin Aera, 3.33% Garmin Pilot, 3.33% paper-wielding Luddite. Not bad.
I think Kent had to give that up after he swore his blood oath to Tesla.
Hah! I just appreciate well-designed, innovative products. ForeFlight completely changed the way we fly. Tesla will change the way we drive. And though they aren't what they were when Jobs was around, I do have a small pile of Apple gadgets in my general vicinity most of the time. And even though they're the big kid on the block, Garmin has captured the lion's share of the GA avionics market for a reason so you could call me a fan of theirs too.
And, as for Tim, he did not *just* become cantankerous.
+1
