ozziecat35
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
Giggity Giggity, just got my invite. Plan on playing with it today and using it for this weekends flying.
Foreflight Desktop Beta
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Don't get too excited. It doesn't do much yet.
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Light rain is dangerous!It's telling him not to fly on the eastern seaboard today
let him fly....Opens up a survey spot ;P
So you can haul your iMac with you on your next flight, duh
MidlifeFlyer
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Planning a flight and filing IFR flight plans on a desktop with a huge screen and a keyboard.
Flight plans you create are automatically synced with the app.
It was apparently a fairly often-requested feature.
Cessnaflyer
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Only if they could make it like fltplan.com and have accurate information then I'd use a desktop version.
ozziecat35
4 out of 5 great lakes prefer Michigan.
Where's the pretty magenta line? I don't see a Direct To button anywhere...
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Whoa! Wait!
What? What? What?
You actually like the UI of FLTPLN.com??! I'm rapidly reaching old codger status, but FLTPLN is so 1990, or whenever html 1.0 was invented.
I find FLTPLN horribly antiquated and often times, downright frustrating.
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No batteries needed. Never runs out of power. Completely flexible cellulose-matrix screen suitable for stuffing in bags or large pockets. Special micro thin graphite-based screen display technology. Sounds like the future to me!
JeppUpdater
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I don't care what it looks like. I care that it provides much more accurate info than ForeFlight with regards to flight planning.
The overwhelming majority of 91 crews I deal with use FltPlan.com for planning and filing. It is far superior to ForeFlight for accuracy whether you're needing to do detailed planning or just toss in a quick flight plan.
I've tried to use ForeFlight, adjusting the aircraft info, etc but it simply can't keep up. It's a pretty display for in flight usage, weather, charts. But the ability to select from preferred routes and check various altitudes all on one page and actually have very accurate results seals the deal for FltPlan.com. I've used FltPlan.com on many 5-6 hour flights and had it within a couple of minutes and 50 lbs of my planned numbers.
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True, the FLTPLN comparison page is nice. Other than that, though, I'd put Foreflight up against FLTPLN any day of the week. Once you've got your profiles set up, you can get accuracy with Foreflight just as good as that offered by FLTPLN. You can add preferred routes easily. You can visually assess the various DPs an STARS against where you are going. I find that much easier than having to page through each DP or STAR on paper to figure out which ones make sense for my overall trip, and then having to go back to the computer to enter it into the flight plan. At just a quick glance I see all the DPs, for instance and instantly know which one is most appropriate. I can also see NOTAMs associated with each procedure on the procedure which allows me instantly to know if the procedure will even work or not. That way I don't file, then read the NOTAMs, then have to go back and change the filed flight plan.
I think, as with many things, it boils down to what one is familiar with and comfortable using. They are both good tools.
But....... that interface!!! Aiiiighhh. Drives me batty.
Cessnaflyer
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
They both have their pro's and con's but if the boss says we are going to go from point a to b how much fuel do we need and how long will it take? Fltplan is much more accurate, I get a route and I'll be able to tell him in a minute. When we are flying we use Foreflight because it is much better than everything else.
And expired charts make great Christmas wrapping paper for cheap bastards like me!
MidlifeFlyer
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Feel free to draw lines, call Flight Service for a weather briefing, take down those winds aloft, grab your E6B, make the en route wind corrections to figure your time/distance and fuel requirements, and call FSS back to file your flight plan. Then you can join me and wake me from the nap I'd been taking after I finished using a different set of tools.