Fly Forecast

About Fly Forecast

Fly Forecast 2.4 keeps your flight plans and Turbulence Meter sessions, and carries them to all your devices with iCloud. SAVED FLIGHT PLANS • Save a plan by name from Plan a Flight, then update, rename or delete it • Start a plan from a flight number: it fills in the airports • Flight Plans, under More: edit, brief or send a plan to the map; share a pilot's or passenger's PDF, kept in Files • The pilot's PDF has a navigation log, fuel, NOTAMs, and the terrain and obstacles under the route in profile • Your favorite routes from 2.3 are already there as saved plans TURBULENCE METER SESSIONS • Every finished session is kept: summary, peak, time in each level and each minute's hardest bump • With a GPS fix, a session keeps its path: see it and its bumps on the map (Settings can turn this off) • Share, export (CSV) or delete sessions under More • Real bumps now count even while the phone is in your hand ICLOUD • Saved plans, meter sessions, favorites, home airport, units and minimums stay the same on every device signed in to iCloud • On by default; turn it off in Settings → iCloud FOR YOUR FLIGHT • Takeoff and landing in plain words: gusts, crosswind, wind shear and storms at each end of a planned flight • A reminder on the morning of a flight you looked up ahead • The turbulence forecast along your route, and Compare Days: the same flight on each of the next eight days • The briefing adds the route on a map, arrival with the wind, when to expect bumps, other levels, delays and daylight; saved briefings are in Plan a Flight • Look back: step the map through the last two days of reports and advisories • Forecast Check: today's turbulence forecast against what pilots report • Forecast Changes: what the newest forecast changed from the one before • The North Atlantic tracks, on the map CANADA AND ALASKA • Canada is its own map region, with its radar and a finer gust forecast • Alaska's turbulence and icing forecast charts, from Anchorage's forecasters TURBULENCE GUIDE • Four new topics: the sounds of a flight, the wing's moving parts, how crews avoid thunderstorms, and how turbulence forecasts are made NEW MAP LAYERS • A worldwide turbulence forecast at your flight level, the one airlines plan with • The jet stream: forecast wind near cruise, shaded where strong, worldwide • Surface wind: a barb at every reporting station, and a worldwide gust forecast • Storm outlook: the Storm Prediction Center's risk areas for the days ahead • Tornado and severe thunderstorm watches in effect ON THE MAP • The map shows at once at launch, and its markers fill in • All Regions: the world's reports and advisories on one map • Radar, satellite and jet stream opacity are yours to set; ash clouds are marked at every zoom • Major airports by code (ICAO for pilots, IATA for passengers); tap one for its preflight page • Share a pilot report or an airport from its details • Clearer hurricane cones, and each storm's sustained wind • Choosing a preset no longer changes your altitude band • A report's flight opens in the Flightradar24 app when it's installed CHARTS • Chart times in Zulu and local time • Jet-stream charts: observed winds at cruise over the US, and forecasts to 36 hours • Clear-air and mountain-wave turbulence charts, at fourteen levels up to 48,000 ft • Six more world areas of high-altitude significant weather and winds, and the mid-level North Atlantic chart ON IPAD • A wider details panel; the map moves so the marker you tapped stays in view • Tap the map to close a panel; Back from a page in a panel returns to it ALSO • Winds Aloft: every level in one table • A navy dark mode • Pilot or passenger sets your units: knots and °C, or mph, km/h and °F • The red Night appearance is gone; devices that used it switch to Dark • Fixed: a crash at launch on a Mac, hurricane cones missing until the map moved, and Active Tropical Storms opening two pages at once Questions or ideas? Email [email protected]. We read everything.

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The developer, Chris Carcerano, reported these privacy practices to Apple.