While airline mobile apps are great for booking flights and accessing boarding passes, they're less than ideal for flight ...

Portable ADS-B receivers have become essential gear for most pilots flying with an iPad these days, providing ADS-B traffic/weather and GPS navigation. The beauty of these systems is that they’re dead ...

All pilots can agree on a few absolutes in aviation: tailwinds on a cross-country flight, the beauty of watching a sunrise from the air, and the adrenaline rush of accelerating down the runway during ...

Apple’s iPad line has been long overdue for a refresh and hasn’t been updated since 2022. You likely haven’t noticed unless you’re a power user who needs the latest Apple silicon M-series chip for ...

One of our favorite features in ForeFlight is its ability to continuously monitor your position, altitude and flight profile to provide a number of in-app audio and visual alerts. These are designed ...

For most general aviation pilots, flying at night is a pretty rare event, making up less than 10% of hours logged. But there are some real advantages to flying after sunset, including smoother rides ...

ForeFlight, aviation’s most popular app, has come a long way from the days of basic weather maps and digital charts. Now a full-featured preflight and in-flight app, it can help you plan a route, ...

One of our favorite activities on the ground is keeping an eye on flight-tracking apps to see who is flying in the airspace above and where they’re going. FlightRadar24 is one of the top apps for this ...

This iPad flight sim app displays the full instrument panel from a Cessna 172, and includes flight, engine and navigation instruments. There are 2 versions available: a free version of the FSi C172 ...

As pilots, we’re more aware of what’s going on with the weather than most, thanks to our innate curiosity about the 3D nature of the atmosphere. Even on the days we’re stuck on the ground, we can’t ...

With the news of ForeFlight joining the Boeing company earlier this year, many pilots expressed concern about the future of the app and if the attention would shift away from its core base of general ...