midlifeflyer

I don’t have a horse in the race but I’m definitely enjoying the “I don’t have a reason to use one. That automatically means it’s bad and no one else should use it” comments.

Well, it kinda is modeling. But not ForeFlight's.

Don't worry about it. We've all asked dumb questions and managed to embarrassed ourselves in countless ways I'm sorry if I sounded snarky. I was just so taken by surprise by the question.

It's an AIRMET, just like the ones you learned about in private pilot training aviation Aviation Weather 101. Not sure where you heard that, but Foreflight does not have a nationwide meteorological staff forecasting weather, sitting at airports watching, or creating weather briefing content. The information comes from the national weather center. Go to the graphical G-AIMET online, and you'll see the same. information From the FAA's Aviation Weather Handbook:. "An AIRMET is a concise description of the occurrence or expected occurrence of specified en route weather phenomena which may affect the safety of aircraft operations. AIRMETs are intended to inform all pilots, especially VFR pilots and operators of sensitive aircraft, of potentially hazardous weather phenomena. AIRMETs contain details about IFR, extensive mountain obscuration, moderate turbulence, strong surface winds, moderate icing, and freezing levels" It means meteorological conditions are conducive to the formation of the subject weather conditions,. In the case of Sierra it depicts areas where IFR ceilings either are or expected, i.e.. a forecast). Like all forecasts, it is informational and might not actually occur. Those who get a briefing compare that to other things, such as METAR for current conditions and TAF for an update on expected future conditions.

What makes you think an AIRMET is Foreflight modeling?

Have you considered having an attorney read the lease, assuming that you have not yourself read it completely and understood everything in it?

That's what I did. In my case it was easy since my account MyFlightBook predates the existence of ForeFlight's logbook by about 10 years (it also predates ForeFlight's iPhone introduction) :D. But I would have done that anyway. I never wanted to feel tied to an EFB, even if it is possible to transfer the data (other than digital signatures). Fortunately, the initial loading of flight time was not an issue because I had been using an eLog as backup for my paper logbook since DOS.

Glad it helped. I’m familiar because I was using FltPlan.com for several years before EFBs came along. It was where we first saw things like advance flight plan filing, notification of expected clearances, and recent / common cleared ATC routes. Those are still excellent, but I think these days it’s mostly about the paid services. I connected the accounts when I signed up the first time but later disconnected them as unnecessary for my use.

I wouldn’t doubt that.

I think the primary reason Garmin purchased fltplan.com was the latter's corporate and non-dispatcher Part 135 base, something Foreflight was courting. While it was superior in the pre-EFB era, unless you are using Fltplan.com for flight plan planning and filing, or its paid eApis or PDC services, or have preexisting pilot and aircraft profiles you want to use in Pilot, I'm not sure if there is any benefit to linking the accounts.

I have both too and feel the same way, although I tend to like FF a little more for planning and GP a little more in flight. I’m trying to build my planning skills in GP more to bring them even.

FWIW, I parked at PMP for a few days last week. Even rented from Hertz. Nothing around there is cheap, but I felt well-taken care of. In other years, I've been into FXE and BCT too. One advantage of FXE, of course, is a visit to Banyan.

I did the same with my own logbook software. I can't help with Foreflight's reports since I never moved to it, but if you wrote your own before, it doesn't sound like pulling down the csv doing the query(ies), retaining as a template and updating the database as needed would be a big deal for you. Although MyFlighBook has greater internal query capability than Foreflight, I still find the need to update the Excel file and do a custom inquiry from time to time.

I used to do things like quit organizations when I didn't like something going on internally, but, somewhere along the way, I figured out that if I quit an organization solely because I didn't like it's internal politics, I wouldn't be a member of anything.

I browse my logbook, sometimes to reminisce, but I leave MyFlightBook to those types of milestones. My page shows over 20, including highest and lowest airports, number of airports I've landed in, number of states I've landed in, number of countries/continents I've flown in, when I logged by 25th different model of airplane, that type of stuff. Some you don't necessarily want to know, like the longest streak of not flying.