Meredith gives a down-to-earth, easy to understand explanation of how to use ForeFlight for real-world VFR flight planning. #vfr #studentpilot #foreflight
One thing to note is that for brevity I didn’t fill out the entire paper nav log completely… clearly you would want to finish the job by calculating the ETE for each leg and the total fuel required for the trip, plus a one-hour reserve. I’m glad so many of you are enjoying this video and finding it helpful!
I really like her attitude and her practicality and no nonsense flying wisdom! Use the tools that you have to remain coherent to your location geographically!!! Pro using GPS to track where you are located!
Wonderful video. I just did my dual cross country last Friday. Working on my solo x country now. I use foreflight and paper. Learned some good tips from this. Thank you
Closer to your take off airport was an isogonic line of 7 degrees west, so even closer to your plotter number lol Not that it matters, great hack in Foreflight, thanks for showing that and loved the video. This really helped me a lot. I'll be browsing through the rest of your videos now.
I like your appreciation and acceptance of the technology/GPS/Foreflight, but I gotta say, I did your E6B wind correction angle calculation in about 6 seconds on the CX-3. 🙂 Great video, I definitely learned some helpful tips! Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
Thanks Meredith. I’m a CFI in Tallahassee and have appreciated the content you provide. I’m glad there are flight schools like yours out there. I stumbled across a hack for finding the magnetic course awhile back. A quick tap on the magenta line will display the course without having to change the ETD. Thanks again and I’ll look forward to more videos.
Appreciate it! Yep that works too, but I like students to see the backlog change from HDG to CRS when winds aloft are eliminated so they make the connection.
I am so happy you mentioned this! Thank you Meredith.. My take on it ... Reality Check: You at the very least need to aligned your HI with Magnetic Compass ... And you must do it frequently. Without the magnetic compass, the HI is useless. Im talking steam gauge here. ..
Great video! Sometimes the “along track offset” is useful to add waypoints without the course changes. But thank you for teaching me a better way to teach this.
Love the pilotage instruction. I fly from WV. People ask me how far you been, ever been to Florida? How do you get there? I used to tell them I flew approximately due east and when I saw the ocean I turned right!! really?? LOL
This afternoon I delivered a ground lesson on the topic to a student pilot who is a busy working husband and father who is struggling to find the time to study airspace, etc. In our example, we planned a trip from KCRG to KGNV which takes you through the Camp Blanding restricted areas. I showed him how he could go direct (plan A) but if they’re hot, make another nav log (plan B) which follows major roads. Have both nav logs available and if ATC says they’re cold, use plan A, if they say they’re hot, use plan B. I like to show students how they can take charge of these situations with just a little more advance planning using common sense.
Thank you. I know there are some CFIs who think electronic devices are inappropriate for student pilots, however I am aware that many students fly well equipped aircraft and it’s unrealistic to ignore what’s on the panel. It’s not the technology that causes inattention, it’s students who lack the self discipline to use the technology responsibly.
Hi Meredith. Great video! There is a way to name waypoints in Foreflight. Press-and-hold on a map location like you did in the video... but instead of tapping on the GPS coordinates to add it to the flight plan... press 'more', then 'save'. The 'name' field in the box that pops up is editable... so you can name it 'Abeam NAS' or whatever you want. The custom waypoint name does appear in the navlog. The downside to this approach is these saved waypoints stick around.... so your chart might get cluttered with user-defined waypoints.
Interesting! Thanks for this! When I exchanged some emails with ForeFlight tech support on this subject over a year ago, I was told the points could not be named. I will share this information with my students!
I just tried this again, and the text name does not show up in the printed navlog. Can’t post a photo here in the comment but it shows up in the navlog screen on Maps but not when you click Send To - Flights - Navlog (purple button).
@@HolladayAviation hmmm… I see my user-defined waypoint name in the FPL tray (the bubbles when I enter airport names I’m FPL), the Navlog tab in FPL, and the print preview of the paper navlog when I click print. I’m using ForeFlight 15.10.1. Just the basic subscription. If I have time in the next day or so, I’ll record my screen and post a CZcams video. Stay tuned.
This is SUCH a useful video for me right now! (The only way it could be better *for me* is if you had used the horrible, archaic Piper performance charts. 😅) Thank you so much!
3:10 note that navigation with an expired chart is illegal, while it may help your situational awareness, flying with no chart is better from a legal standpoint!
I am in the market to purchase an iPad for using ForeFlight and have a question? Do I need to purchase an iPad with cellular service capability or will an iPad with only WiFI capability will work? Thanks!
Great question! The short answer is, the cellular enabled devices have standalone GPS capability, whereas with a Wi-Fi only device you will need to toggle to a GPS enabled device in order to have GPS position display on ForeFlight. My personal iPad is Wi-Fi only, because I toggle to the Garmin 650 or the Sentry mini in my airplanes.
There is one caveat of not learning old school manual calculations. If the pilot just wants to be a Private Pilot, then sure he/she doesnt need to be oncerned with total technology failure while enroute. I'm OK with that thinking. However if we are grooming future career pilots who will be conducting more advanced flying careers then I wouid urge them to learn the E6B and learn how to use other means to manually calculate various navigation problems. Im a professional pilot of many years, and still on occassion use old school means for calculating. Just my opinion from my real every day flying.
Thanks for your comment. To be clear, I never ever said or suggested that pilots should not know how to do basic calculations in their heads. Quite the opposite. The sad truth is that our educational system is churning out high school students who struggle with the fundamental arithmetic that is necessary for determining ground speed, fuel required, etc. I am fascinated by the manual, slide-rule style E6B and used it during my flight training 20 years ago, but the reality is that this device should not be necessary if one knows how to do basic math. ForeFlight is simply a tool just like the E6B was decades ago.
When you are “abeam the numbers” on the downwind leg in left traffic, the numbers should be under your left wing. It’s a way to describe your position.
Not a pilot or a student - when there is a certain technology available to make our lives easier, safer, more accurate, not using those tools seems pretty dumb to me. It's like one Doctor uses laparoscopic technology and cuts you 1" while the other old Dr. slices you 10" to perform the same work. I switched from traditional paper and pen to Cadd systems back in the mid 80s while the other Architects caught up in the mid 90s. I'd tell the DPE "relax dude we are not going back to doing anything by pan, paper calculators and those dumb E6B crap my dad used back in the 50s" :) You want to fail Me? Go ahead make my day 😂
I’m sure there are DPE’s out there who may debate this but the FAA has made it very clear that the use of technology in general aviation is widely accepted.
One thing to note is that for brevity I didn’t fill out the entire paper nav log completely… clearly you would want to finish the job by calculating the ETE for each leg and the total fuel required for the trip, plus a one-hour reserve. I’m glad so many of you are enjoying this video and finding it helpful!
Very good video! thanks!
I really like her attitude and her practicality and no nonsense flying wisdom! Use the tools that you have to remain coherent to your location geographically!!! Pro using GPS to track where you are located!
Thanks for the tip on measuring using two hands. I never could get it with one hand. Great tip!
Wonderful video. I just did my dual cross country last Friday. Working on my solo x country now. I use foreflight and paper. Learned some good tips from this. Thank you
Great videoMeredith! I learned a few tricks for my bag of tools to be used on my next XC. Be safe!
Closer to your take off airport was an isogonic line of 7 degrees west, so even closer to your plotter number lol Not that it matters, great hack in Foreflight, thanks for showing that and loved the video. This really helped me a lot. I'll be browsing through the rest of your videos now.
Loved it!
I like your appreciation and acceptance of the technology/GPS/Foreflight, but I gotta say, I did your E6B wind correction angle calculation in about 6 seconds on the CX-3. 🙂 Great video, I definitely learned some helpful tips! Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
Love your video. So detailed. I needed this for my commercial checkride in 2 days! I subscribed
Enjoyed your video, Even an old pilot is always learning thanks for sharing ....
Great presentation! Thank you!
Great job explaining this.much appreciated thank you
Thanks Meredith. I’m a CFI in Tallahassee and have appreciated the content you provide. I’m glad there are flight schools like yours out there. I stumbled across a hack for finding the magnetic course awhile back. A quick tap on the magenta line will display the course without having to change the ETD. Thanks again and I’ll look forward to more videos.
Appreciate it! Yep that works too, but I like students to see the backlog change from HDG to CRS when winds aloft are eliminated so they make the connection.
I am so happy you mentioned this! Thank you Meredith.. My take on it ... Reality Check: You at the very least need to aligned your HI with Magnetic Compass ... And you must do it frequently. Without the magnetic compass, the HI is useless. Im talking steam gauge here. ..
Thank you , I learned a lot from your video !
Great video. Just subscribed!
I have only 3 words:
Wow!!! Thank you!
Great video! Sometimes the “along track offset” is useful to add waypoints without the course changes. But thank you for teaching me a better way to teach this.
Very good instruction. Thank you
I'm sure you're a excellent cfi great video just subscribed!!!!!!
Love the pilotage instruction. I fly from WV. People ask me how far you been, ever been to Florida? How do you get there? I used to tell them I flew approximately due east and when I saw the ocean I turned right!! really?? LOL
This afternoon I delivered a ground lesson on the topic to a student pilot who is a busy working husband and father who is struggling to find the time to study airspace, etc. In our example, we planned a trip from KCRG to KGNV which takes you through the Camp Blanding restricted areas. I showed him how he could go direct (plan A) but if they’re hot, make another nav log (plan B) which follows major roads. Have both nav logs available and if ATC says they’re cold, use plan A, if they say they’re hot, use plan B. I like to show students how they can take charge of these situations with just a little more advance planning using common sense.
Great video. I enjoyed your commonsense approach to the topic.
Thank you. I know there are some CFIs who think electronic devices are inappropriate for student pilots, however I am aware that many students fly well equipped aircraft and it’s unrealistic to ignore what’s on the panel. It’s not the technology that causes inattention, it’s students who lack the self discipline to use the technology responsibly.
Thanks very helpful!
Very well explained
LNS! I flew to that field many times!
I would love to chat with you about that route on the wall. I would like to do do something similar.
Hi Meredith. Great video! There is a way to name waypoints in Foreflight. Press-and-hold on a map location like you did in the video... but instead of tapping on the GPS coordinates to add it to the flight plan... press 'more', then 'save'. The 'name' field in the box that pops up is editable... so you can name it 'Abeam NAS' or whatever you want. The custom waypoint name does appear in the navlog. The downside to this approach is these saved waypoints stick around.... so your chart might get cluttered with user-defined waypoints.
Interesting! Thanks for this! When I exchanged some emails with ForeFlight tech support on this subject over a year ago, I was told the points could not be named. I will share this information with my students!
I just tried this again, and the text name does not show up in the printed navlog. Can’t post a photo here in the comment but it shows up in the navlog screen on Maps but not when you click Send To - Flights - Navlog (purple button).
@@HolladayAviation hmmm… I see my user-defined waypoint name in the FPL tray (the bubbles when I enter airport names I’m FPL), the Navlog tab in FPL, and the print preview of the paper navlog when I click print. I’m using ForeFlight 15.10.1. Just the basic subscription. If I have time in the next day or so, I’ll record my screen and post a CZcams video. Stay tuned.
I just uploaded a video on CZcams. It’s on my @jantonitis channel. It was recorded on a iPad Mini 6 using ForeFlight 15.10.1.
@@jantonitis ah, I see… you are going directly to Print, not to Navlog. Click on the purple button and you’ll see what I mean.
Thank you
This is SUCH a useful video for me right now! (The only way it could be better *for me* is if you had used the horrible, archaic Piper performance charts. 😅) Thank you so much!
It’s new technology why not use it… awesome video ❤
You can just touch the magenta line on the map connecting the departure and destination,and it will show you the course
Yes, but we need to teach students where that number comes from, how it is derived.
That’s a pretty person
3:10 note that navigation with an expired chart is illegal, while it may help your situational awareness, flying with no chart is better from a legal standpoint!
I said have a paper chart as a backup, not as the primary.
Can you set more than one cruise altitude? In case you need to climb/descent mid flight?
Yes. Select the waypoint in the Edit mode and then Set Altitude/Speed. These new parameters will appear on the navlog.
thanks!@@HolladayAviation
I am in the market to purchase an iPad for using ForeFlight and have a question? Do I need to purchase an iPad with cellular service capability or will an iPad with only WiFI capability will work? Thanks!
Great question! The short answer is, the cellular enabled devices have standalone GPS capability, whereas with a Wi-Fi only device you will need to toggle to a GPS enabled device in order to have GPS position display on ForeFlight. My personal iPad is Wi-Fi only, because I toggle to the Garmin 650 or the Sentry mini in my airplanes.
What would you recommend other than foreflight?
Garmin Pilot is the mostly equivalent app for Android users.
Okay, thankyou.@@HolladayAviation
There is one caveat of not learning old school manual calculations. If the pilot just wants to be a Private Pilot, then sure he/she doesnt need to be oncerned with total technology failure while enroute. I'm OK with that thinking. However if we are grooming future career pilots who will be conducting more advanced flying careers then I wouid urge them to learn the E6B and learn how to use other means to manually calculate various navigation problems. Im a professional pilot of many years, and still on occassion use old school means for calculating. Just my opinion from my real every day flying.
Thanks for your comment. To be clear, I never ever said or suggested that pilots should not know how to do basic calculations in their heads. Quite the opposite. The sad truth is that our educational system is churning out high school students who struggle with the fundamental arithmetic that is necessary for determining ground speed, fuel required, etc. I am fascinated by the manual, slide-rule style E6B and used it during my flight training 20 years ago, but the reality is that this device should not be necessary if one knows how to do basic math. ForeFlight is simply a tool just like the E6B was decades ago.
What is abeam?
When you are “abeam the numbers” on the downwind leg in left traffic, the numbers should be under your left wing. It’s a way to describe your position.
Not a pilot or a student - when there is a certain technology available to make our lives easier, safer, more accurate, not using those tools seems pretty dumb to me. It's like one Doctor uses laparoscopic technology and cuts you 1" while the other old Dr. slices you 10" to perform the same work. I switched from traditional paper and pen to Cadd systems back in the mid 80s while the other Architects caught up in the mid 90s. I'd tell the DPE "relax dude we are not going back to doing anything by pan, paper calculators and those dumb E6B crap my dad used back in the 50s" :) You want to fail Me? Go ahead make my day 😂
I’m sure there are DPE’s out there who may debate this but the FAA has made it very clear that the use of technology in general aviation is widely accepted.
I was thinking of taking flying lessons, but after watching this .. and being a mathematical idiot, I think maybe I’ll switch to hang gliders 🙄
It’s really not as hard as it seems, basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Trust me, I got a C in calculus, if I can do it, so can you!