ForeFlight has sharpened its pencils as it goes about adding features to the industry's most premium EFB application, and the results show it with better situational awareness, charting, and capability for pilots across the spectrum of operations.
ForeFlight 16.3 includes an Aeronautical Map Drawer, Basic Navlog Template, Power Lines on the Basemap, and Aeronautical Map Toggles and settings in a collapsible 'drawer'. That now houses all Aeronautical Map toggles and settings, optimizing space when you aren't using it. Tap the new button in the lower-left corner of the Maps view with the Aeronautical Map layer enabled to open the drawer and toggle map elements like airports, airspace, waypoints, and more, or tap the ellipses button at the very bottom to access Aeronautical Map Settings.
Below the toggles are new Aeronautical Modes for IFR High, IFR Low, and VFR, which you can select to quickly change altitude-based map elements like waypoints, navaids, airways, ATC boundaries, and VFR map elements.
The new release also includes a new Basic Navlog tailored for VFR pilots that offers a cleaner format resembling a traditional navlog. From the Flights view, tap the Navlog button next to Briefing at the top of a flight plan to open the Navlog, then tap the Settings cog in the top-right to select the Basic template.
While it may not be something that most USDM operators notice at first blush, ForeFlight 16.3 comes with support for detailed VFR charts in South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, and Angola. Those, like all the other map packs, must be added to an account's subscription feed.
In addition, power lines are now depicted on the moving map, too - very, VERY helpful should an unfortunate pilot have a no-notice off-airport landing.
FMI: www.ForeFlight.com
