Foreflight opens up

scooter2525 said:
Just gimme Jepps in Foreflight
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I think Jeppesen is making a big mistake not licensing their plates. They could make a fortune doing it. I'd be willing to pay a significant premium to have their plates in ForeFlight, but as much as I love Jepps, I'm not giving up ForeFlight and using the Jepp app. By licensing, they can get out of the app business and just let the royalties roll in.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I think Jeppesen is making a big mistake not licensing their plates. They could make a fortune doing it. I'd be willing to pay a significant premium to have their plates in ForeFlight, but as much as I love Jepps, I'm not giving up ForeFlight and using the Jepp app. By licensing, they can get out of the app business and just let the royalties roll in.
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Their JeppFD app is terrible compared to Foreflight. And their marketshare is declining because of their anti-licensing plan.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I think Jeppesen is making a big mistake not licensing their plates. They could make a fortune doing it. I'd be willing to pay a significant premium to have their plates in ForeFlight, but as much as I love Jepps, I'm not giving up ForeFlight and using the Jepp app. By licensing, they can get out of the app business and just let the royalties roll in.
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My guess, whoever is in the helm comes from a different decade when it comes to technology.
 
I've never used Foreflight, but have watched some Youtube videos. I use JeppFD Pro every day at work at an airline and for our purposes it's great. I like Jepp because they've harmonized the int'l plates as well as the domestic ones. Lots of info concerning local laws/procedures. It doesn't appear Foreflight offers that level of complexity/detail and seems to be just a domestic app. Great for what it does for the domestic GA crowd though.
 
Foreflight does a very good job of listening to customers and integrating their ideas. From flight planning where it gives you optimal altitude based upon winds aloft; taking your plan and filing via Duats; alerting you when your cleared route is available.
The georeferenced charts kick in as soon as you taxi; alert when you approach runway, then when you enter; transition to enroute chart on takeoff; overlay of weather, traffic etc if you wish; then seemlessly transitions to IAP when you arrive; NOTAM tag on the IAP of there are any; then georeferenced taxi diagram upon landing.
Jepp is pretty much chart software while Foreflight is a full blown flight planning planning/SA software.
 
Nice, one of their VP's swore me to secrecy with that info last year. Hopefully we will have our Free Flight upgrade done in a few weeks and can try it out.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
I think Jeppesen is making a big mistake not licensing their plates. They could make a fortune doing it. I'd be willing to pay a significant premium to have their plates in ForeFlight, but as much as I love Jepps, I'm not giving up ForeFlight and using the Jepp app. By licensing, they can get out of the app business and just let the royalties roll in.
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I emailed ForeFlight that exact question. They wrote back a decent response that basically said Jepp sees them as competition. I wrote Jepp the same question. No response. What a surprise. I would bet ForeFlight would do it and let Jepp keep all the cash. It would mean more subscribers for FF and more money for Jepp.

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ATN_Pilot said:
I think Jeppesen is making a big mistake not licensing their plates. They could make a fortune doing it. I'd be willing to pay a significant premium to have their plates in ForeFlight, but as much as I love Jepps, I'm not giving up ForeFlight and using the Jepp app. By licensing, they can get out of the app business and just let the royalties roll in.
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I have JeppFD Pro for work, but I have Foreflight on my personal stuff. I hate NOS charts so I will not use them, if Foreflight adds Jepps I will love them forever!
 
There is only ONE good thing about a LIDO approach plate, IMHO, and that is it shows the runway length and witdth for that particular approach right there on the plate. So when you are briefing the approach you don't have to pause, flip to the 10-9, and then state runway length.

And briefing from a LIDO plate? Terrible. I used them for a year at 9E.
 
PositionAndHold said:
I emailed ForeFlight that exact question. They wrote back a decent response that basically said Jepp sees them as competition. I wrote Jepp the same question. No response. What a surprise. I would bet ForeFlight would do it and let Jepp keep all the cash. It would mean more subscribers for FF and more money for Jepp.

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Jepp is one of those big companies that has not yet realized the times are changing. For years they pretty much churned out the same product and knew that all the 121 carriers would purchase it, along with many 91 and 135 operations. They had a good product, but customer service was always horrible.
 
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