New foreflight briefing

[bradp]

I just fiddled with this new graphical briefing.   Seems an improvement from the usual way.   I must say that anything that is less than a straightforward flight I still like to talk to a human, however varied that experience may be.  

 

 http://blog.foreflight.com/2015/11/11/graphical-preflight-briefing-in-foreflight-7-4/

[jlunseth]

I looked at it too, and I really like it.  I get almost all of my briefings from a person at Lockheed, over the phone, but I do that mostly because there is then a record.  The one issue I have with Lockheed is that they often provide stuff that is way off the route.  I flew to Michigan from Minnesota on Tuesday.  There was a front over the western Dakotas and a trough over eastern Michigan, everything in between including my route was clear and high pressure, and I had to listen to the stuff about the Dakotas and eastern MI.  That's ok I guess, but had I not looked at some weather maps beforehand I might not have figured out that he was giving me the Dakota and eastern MI stuff just because, and it would have no impact on my flight at all.  That new briefing style on Foreflight is just great, distills the weather down to understandable graphics, all in one place. 

[Ned Gravel]

Does not work with Canadian tail numbers.

[DXB]

Had fun playing with it- certainly better than the old text.  Noticed that it translates the area forecasts for you, but these are about to disappear.  I great time for them to incorporate a new source of cloud info...

[Will W]

The whole program is a copy of the Lockheed briefing website at www.1800wxbrief.com. The graphics aren't the same but that's what they're trying to do. It is a work in progress but that's what they're trying to immulate. I do like the graphics on the web a little better though. It won't work in Canada because Canada doesn't send Lockheeds servers all of their weather information. NAV Canada is making sure of that I have a feeling.