Fantastic tool
Im an (german) VFR PPL and I got my license in 1994 from the Stanford Flying Club. I used ForeFlight during a long cross country flight from Fayetteville (KFAY) to Westchester County Airport (KHPN) north of NYC. To give an executive summary first: ForeFlight brings aviation to the next level of flying. The software provides (besides others) a full coverage of VFR sectionals stitched together to one big map. TACs are worked in to it. I used it for flight planning and in flight for enroute navigation. I prepared all airport plates and was so able to easily find all frequencies, runway and taxi way layouts and weather conditions even enroute on one (!) device paperless. The positioning on the map by GPS of my iPad was sometimes off of estimated some hundred feet even so the precision was shown by 10 meters. The maps sometimes seems not to be perfectly geo-referenced. I never found that a problem though. We avoided a restricted area (R-4005) and the controller got nervous since we "where just half a mile away from the border" clearly manageable with ForeFlight.
The software is very intuitive to handle. Enroute changes can be applied with the tip of your finger. Weather data (radar and sat and many others) can be overlaid to the maps. An extremely helpfully feature. Even if 3/4G coverage aloft is only occasionally and at rather low altitude available one can update the data from time to time e.g. in a stop over.
Over all for me as a rather inexperienced pilot ForeFlight is a affordable revolution. But also my co-pilot and >5000 hours CFI was impressed and plans to sign in to ForeFlight for his professional work. An also strong plus is the highly responsive support of the company. All (also newbee) emails were answered within 15 minutes. Strong plus for me. Im still on a trial account witch worked just fine. Overall: must have. Im looking forward to the next versions may be with digitized maps with flexible rendering (e.g. show airspace only). Dr. Michael R. Alvers
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ForeFlight Mobile EFB, v4.5.1