Hi @jacko,
I’m looking into it, but you are correct that is a proprietary format. I’ll see what answers I can can find this week and get back to you when I know more.
Josh
I am playing around with the trip planner option on the web application (advertised as a premium plus feature). From what I can see the route planner calculates flight time as a straight-line between departure and destination airport. Is that correct?
If so, that renders this premium feature essentially useless. On long routes (>3hrs) EUROCONTROL routings can easily add 5% to planned flight time (ignoring en-route shortcuts) which starts to become significant. This is especially the case when the trip is planned close to the operating hour limits of the airport.
It’s a trip "assistant’, not a trip planner. It gives you a starter-for-ten offering options for en-route stops. Clearly you need to do a bit of homework in then generating routes for specific legs.
Dave_Phillips wrote:
It’s a trip "assistant’, not a trip planner.
Completely agree but it’s not like we are talking about SkyVector adding AutoRouting. ForeFlight already has all the infrastructure and back-end available to offer correctly calculated routes & according timings. Would it not make sense for trip assistant to calculate those so that the timing is as realistic as possible? In the end you pay for the application to do as much of the “homework” as possible for you
Just as suggestion for @Josh_Tahmasebi_ForeFlight and team!
Hi @TimR,
Appreciate the feedback. I believe you are correct that right now it is based on DCT so we can look into future enhancements. I have forwarded this to the team that works on Trip Assistant.
Josh
Hello everyone!
Just an update that ForeFlight 11 was released today so I’ll share the release notes here:
Airport 3D View
Breadcrumbs
Expanded Coverage for the Netherlands, Denmark, and Faroe Islands
KMZ File Support
@Snoopy sorry we didn’t have this out the other day, but it will work for future items!
Settings Filter
Another quick note is we have new Europe focused social channels on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Have a great evening,
Josh
Any news on fly-by waypoints for autorouting, and making the altitude limits work properly?
We have raised the priority of these items and should have more to share soon. I don’t have an exact date, but there are things moving.
Josh
Josh_Tahmasebi_ForeFlight wrote:
Airport 3D View is included in Performance Plus, Business Performance, and MFB Performance subscription plans.
This is a bit of a bummer. I just downloaded v11 (US version) and had a quick look at that – really cool and useful. The only issue is, that all the other Performance Plus functionalities are very much tailored to the bizjet market – not a space I (and many others) are in. Any chance to add this to the Pro Plus plan or make it available as an add-on there?
Yes, I downloaded the latest today too and was disappointed to check prices. For the cost of the upgrade from Pro Plus to Performance Plus, I’ll continue to use Google Earth for airport 3D viewing – I’ve been doing that for years. Otherwise I find Foreflight to be a fantastic tool for my use.