Fly Forecast2.4.0 - App Store

See turbulence before you feel it. Fly Forecast puts the weather pilots fly by on one live map - real pilot reports of turbulence and icing, hazard areas, radar, satellite and official FAA charts - and briefs your flight: set a route and an altitude, and it tells you what the line flies through.

For a pilot planning a leg, a frequent flyer picking the smoothest departure, or a nervous passenger wondering how tonight's flight will feel, Fly Forecast answers in plain words.

BRIEF YOUR FLIGHT
. Set a departure, destination, cruise altitude and time, and the route draws on the map
. The briefing lists what lies along it: pilot reports near your altitude, the hazard areas the line crosses and whether they reach cruise, the freezing level, and the winds aloft as a headwind or tailwind
. Takeoff and landing in plain words: gusts, crosswind, wind shear and storms
. Compare Days: your route's turbulence and jet-stream forecast, eight days ahead
. Check both ends against your personal minimums
. Start a plan from a flight number, save plans by name, share any as a pilot's or passenger's PDF with map, terrain and NOTAMs, kept in Files

LIVE TURBULENCE MAP
. Pilot reports (PIREPs) in standard symbols, colored by severity, each with its altitude; tap one for the full report in plain words, aircraft type included
. Presets for Turbulence, Icing, VFR Local, IFR Cruise and Convective
. An altitude band and a time bar: hazards at your level, hours ahead or two days back
. G-AIRMETs, SIGMETs, Center Weather Advisories, TFRs, the convective forecast, storm outlooks and watches, volcanic ash and fronts
. A worldwide turbulence forecast, the jet stream, forecast gusts, station winds and the Atlantic tracks
. Radar with echo tops and a loop, Canada's radar, satellite, and hurricanes with NHC cones and tracks
. FAA VFR Sectional, IFR Low and IFR High charts underneath
. Press and hold for a point briefing
. Opens on saved data if you lose signal

FOR PASSENGERS
. Track a flight by number, today or a week ahead, with a reminder that morning, and see what lies along its route
. Save the outlook before you board and read it in airplane mode
. The Turbulence Meter measures the bumps you feel and keeps every flight, by the minute and on the map, to share or export
. The Turbulence Guide explains what each level feels like and the sounds of a flight, with a breathing exercise

A PREFLIGHT PAGE FOR EVERY AIRPORT
. Almost 11,000 airports, with favorites, a home airport and the fields near you
. Decoded METAR and TAF with flight categories, a six-hour trend and density altitude
. Headwind and crosswind for every runway
. Sunrise, sunset and twilight
. NOTAMs, airport diagrams, FAA delays, the forecast discussion, and AWOS and ASOS with tap-to-call

WINDS ALOFT & CHARTS
. Winds and temperatures aloft for the US, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific, with each station's freezing level, or as barbs on the map
. 1,900 charts: Graphical Forecasts for Aviation, the jet stream, turbulence (GTG) and icing (CIP/FIP) guidance, significant weather, GOES satellite and space weather

MADE FOR THE COCKPIT
. iCloud keeps your plans, meter sessions, favorites and settings the same on all your devices
. Zulu time and a navy dark mode
. VoiceOver for every marker on the map, and text that grows with your settings
. Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight airport search, and side panels on iPad
. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking

Data from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, National Weather Service, Weather, Storm and Space Weather Prediction Centers, National Hurricane Center, the FAA, the USGS and NESDIS/STAR satellites, with international imagery from EUMETSAT, the German Weather Service (DWD) and the Japan Meteorological Agency, forecast winds from Environment and Climate Change Canada, flight positions from the adsb.lol and adsb.fi community networks and routes from adsbdb and adsb.im.

Fly Forecast is an informational tool and not a substitute for an official preflight weather briefing.

Version History Fly Forecast 2.4 keeps your flight plans and Turbulence Meter sessions, and carries them to all your devices with iCloud.

SAVED FLIGHT PLANS
• Save a plan by name from Plan a Flight, then update, rename or delete it
• Start a plan from a flight number: it fills in the airports
• Flight Plans, under More: edit, brief or send a plan to the map; share a pilot's or passenger's PDF, kept in Files
• The pilot's PDF has a navigation log, fuel, NOTAMs, and the terrain and obstacles under the route in profile
• Your favorite routes from 2.3 are already there as saved plans

TURBULENCE METER SESSIONS
• Every finished session is kept: summary, peak, time in each level and each minute's hardest bump
• With a GPS fix, a session keeps its path: see it and its bumps on the map (Settings can turn this off)
• Share, export (CSV) or delete sessions under More
• Real bumps now count even while the phone is in your hand

ICLOUD
• Saved plans, meter sessions, favorites, home airport, units and minimums stay the same on every device signed in to iCloud
• On by default; turn it off in Settings → iCloud

FOR YOUR FLIGHT
• Takeoff and landing in plain words: gusts, crosswind, wind shear and storms at each end of a planned flight
• A reminder on the morning of a flight you looked up ahead
• The turbulence forecast along your route, and Compare Days: the same flight on each of the next eight days
• The briefing adds the route on a map, arrival with the wind, when to expect bumps, other levels, delays and daylight; saved briefings are in Plan a Flight
• Look back: step the map through the last two days of reports and advisories
• Forecast Check: today's turbulence forecast against what pilots report
• Forecast Changes: what the newest forecast changed from the one before
• The North Atlantic tracks, on the map

CANADA AND ALASKA
• Canada is its own map region, with its radar and a finer gust forecast
• Alaska's turbulence and icing forecast charts, from Anchorage's forecasters

TURBULENCE GUIDE
• Four new topics: the sounds of a flight, the wing's moving parts, how crews avoid thunderstorms, and how turbulence forecasts are made

NEW MAP LAYERS
• A worldwide turbulence forecast at your flight level, the one airlines plan with
• The jet stream: forecast wind near cruise, shaded where strong, worldwide
• Surface wind: a barb at every reporting station, and a worldwide gust forecast
• Storm outlook: the Storm Prediction Center's risk areas for the days ahead
• Tornado and severe thunderstorm watches in effect

ON THE MAP
• The map shows at once at launch, and its markers fill in
• All Regions: the world's reports and advisories on one map
• Radar, satellite and jet stream opacity are yours to set; ash clouds are marked at every zoom
• Major airports by code (ICAO for pilots, IATA for passengers); tap one for its preflight page
• Share a pilot report or an airport from its details
• Clearer hurricane cones, and each storm's sustained wind
• Choosing a preset no longer changes your altitude band
• A report's flight opens in the Flightradar24 app when it's installed

CHARTS
• Chart times in Zulu and local time
• Jet-stream charts: observed winds at cruise over the US, and forecasts to 36 hours
• Clear-air and mountain-wave turbulence charts, at fourteen levels up to 48,000 ft
• Six more world areas of high-altitude significant weather and winds, and the mid-level North Atlantic chart

ON IPAD
• A wider details panel; the map moves so the marker you tapped stays in view
• Tap the map to close a panel; Back from a page in a panel returns to it

ALSO
• Winds Aloft: every level in one table
• A navy dark mode
• Pilot or passenger sets your units: knots and °C, or mph, km/h and °F
• The red Night appearance is gone; devices that used it switch to Dark
• Fixed: a crash at launch on a Mac, hurricane cones missing until the map moved, and Active Tropical Storms opening two pages at once

Questions or ideas? Email flyforecast@pocketfetch.com. We read everything. 2.4.0 2d ago Fly Forecast 2.3 is our biggest update yet. It briefs your flight, turns every airport into a preflight page, and speaks plainly to passengers.

BRIEF A FLIGHT
• Set a route, an altitude and a time: the map draws the line and lists the pilot reports, hazard areas, freezing level and winds along it
• A tracked airliner gets the same briefing along its path

A SMARTER MAP
• Presets: Turbulence, Icing, VFR Local, IFR Cruise and Convective
• An altitude band, and a time bar that steps the G-AIRMETs forward
• Radar echo tops and loop, satellite channels, hurricane cones, volcanic ash, and winds aloft on the map
• Press and hold for a point briefing; a Zulu clock on the status line
• Reports from airliners now show the aircraft type, too
• Opens on the latest saved data when you have no signal

AIRPORTS, NOW A TAB
• Decoded TAFs, runway crosswinds, density altitude, a six-hour trend, and daylight and twilight times
• Airport diagrams, NOTAMs, delays, and your own personal minimums
• Nearby airports, international ones first, that keep up as you travel
• Favorites and a home airport

FOR PASSENGERS
• Track tomorrow's flight, read the route in plain words, save the outlook for airplane mode, and breathe with one tap
• A calmer Turbulence Meter: graded on repeated bumps, not one jolt; it lasts the whole flight and saves a summary

EASIER TO READ
• Stronger colors, text that grows with your settings, VoiceOver labels for the map, and a list of what's on it
• A red Night mode for the cockpit, with the map as a dim red relief
• Temperatures show °F first, with °C alongside; switch the order in Settings

AND MORE
• Winds aloft for Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific
• Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight
• Links to forecasts and sources open right in the app
• Lighter on battery and data
• Send Feedback from More: the details that help us trace a problem go with your message

Questions or ideas? Email flyforecast@pocketfetch.com. We read everything. 2.3.1 Oct 7 Fly Forecast 2.3 is our biggest update yet. It briefs your flight, turns every airport into a preflight page, and speaks plainly to passengers.

BRIEF A FLIGHT
• Set a route, an altitude and a time: the map draws the line and lists the pilot reports, hazard areas, freezing level and winds along it
• A tracked airliner gets the same briefing along its path

A SMARTER MAP
• Presets: Turbulence, Icing, VFR Local, IFR Cruise and Convective
• An altitude band, and a time bar that steps the G-AIRMETs forward
• Radar echo tops and loop, satellite channels, hurricane cones, volcanic ash, and winds aloft on the map
• Press and hold for a point briefing; a Zulu clock on the status line
• Opens on the latest saved data when you have no signal

AIRPORTS, NOW A TAB
• Decoded TAFs, runway crosswinds, density altitude, a six-hour trend, and daylight and twilight times
• Airport diagrams, NOTAMs, delays, and your own personal minimums
• Favorites and a home airport

FOR PASSENGERS
• Track tomorrow's flight, read the route in plain words, save the outlook for airplane mode, and breathe with one tap
• A calmer Turbulence Meter: graded on repeated bumps, not one jolt; it lasts the whole flight and saves a summary

EASIER TO READ
• Stronger colors, text that grows with your settings, VoiceOver labels for the map, and a list of what's on it
• A red Night mode for the cockpit

AND MORE
• Winds aloft for Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific
• Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight
• Lighter on battery and data
• Send Feedback from More: the details that help us trace a problem go with your message

Questions or ideas? Email flyforecast@pocketfetch.com. We read everything. 2.3.0 Oct 6 Fly Forecast 2.1 puts official FAA charts under your weather — and adds new data across the map, airports and charts.

AERONAUTICAL CHARTS ON THE LIVE MAP
• VFR Sectional, IFR Low and IFR High enroute charts, drawn under the weather layers
• Full US coverage at every zoom level — from the whole country down to a single approach, over land and open water
• Pick your chart from the map's Layers sheet or in Settings

NEW MAP LAYERS
• TFRs — FAA temporary flight restrictions
• Graphical convective forecast (TCF): forecast thunderstorm coverage drawn on the map
• Alaska AIRMETs
• Surface analysis: cold, warm, stationary and occluded fronts with High/Low pressure centers
• New region picker: see AIREPs — automated aircraft reports — over Europe, Asia & the Pacific and the North Atlantic
• Share a snapshot of your map view with one tap

AIRPORTS
• NOTAMs for US airports, with runway, taxiway and obstruction notices highlighted
• Live FAA airspace status: ground delays, ground stops and closures right on the airport page
• The local NWS forecast discussion — the forecaster's own reasoning behind the forecast

WEATHER CHARTS
• Active tropical storms in the new Live section, with National Hurricane Center positions and advisories

AND MORE
• Searchable offline aviation glossary (from the FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary) in Settings → Tools
• Fixes and polish throughout, including aeronautical charts that stay sharp and visible at any zoom

Questions or ideas? Email flyforecast@pocketfetch.com — we read everything. 2.2.0 Jul 23 Fly Forecast 2.0 is a complete rebuild of the app — faster, cleaner, and packed with new weather data.

THE LIVE MAP, SUPERCHARGED
• Graphical AIRMET hazard layers: turbulence, icing, IFR conditions, mountain obscuration, surface winds, wind shear and freezing level
• Domestic and international SIGMETs, plus Center Weather Advisories, drawn right on the map
• Live NWS radar and GOES satellite imagery overlays
• Redesigned pilot-report symbols using standard aviation pictograms, with altitude shown on every report
• Choose between clustered or individual report symbols, three base map styles, and finer filters for severity, age and altitude
• NEW: track any flight by number — its live position and flown path draw right over the turbulence map
• NEW: Turbulence Meter — measure the bumps you're feeling using your device's motion sensors

WINDS ALOFT & AIRPORTS
• NEW: winds and temperatures aloft (FD forecasts) as wind barbs by region and flight level
• Search 7,700+ airports by code, name or city
• Decoded current conditions (METAR) with VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR flight category, terminal forecasts (TAF), runway details, frequencies and nearby airports

UPDATED WEATHER CHARTS
• Rebuilt chart library with current NOAA sources: G-AIRMET graphics, Graphical Forecasts for Aviation, SIGMET charts, surface analysis, convective and fire-weather outlooks, radar mosaics and GOES-East/West satellite
• NEW: national forecast charts for every element — feels-like temperature, dew point, humidity, sky cover, wind, gusts, precipitation, snow and ice
• NEW: air-mass and lightning satellite imagery, plus a tropical Atlantic sector
• Pinch to zoom, swipe between forecast hours, and share, copy or save any image

AND MORE
• Modern design for iPhone and iPad with full dark mode and a new appearance setting
• Faster and lighter: rebuilt natively with no third-party code
• Your settings carry over from the previous version automatically
• Still no account, no ads and no tracking

Questions or ideas? Email flyforecast@pocketfetch.com — we read everything. 2.1.0 Jul 12 Fly Forecast 2.0 is a complete rebuild of the app — faster, cleaner, and packed with new weather data.

THE LIVE MAP, SUPERCHARGED
• Graphical AIRMET hazard layers: turbulence, icing, IFR conditions, mountain obscuration, surface winds, wind shear and freezing level
• Domestic and international SIGMETs drawn right on the map
• Live NWS radar and GOES satellite imagery overlays
• Redesigned pilot-report symbols using standard aviation pictograms, with altitude shown on every report
• Choose between clustered or individual report symbols, three base map styles, and finer filters for severity, age and altitude
• NEW: track any flight by number — its live position and flown path draw right over the turbulence map
• NEW: Turbulence Meter — measure the bumps you're feeling using your device's motion sensors

ALL-NEW AIRPORTS TAB
• Search 7,700+ airports by code, name or city
• Decoded current conditions (METAR) with VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR flight category
• Terminal forecasts (TAF), runway details, frequencies and nearby airports

UPDATED WEATHER CHARTS
• Rebuilt chart library with current NOAA sources: G-AIRMET graphics, Graphical Forecasts for Aviation, SIGMET charts, surface analysis, convective outlooks, radar mosaics and GOES-East/West satellite imagery
• Pinch to zoom, swipe between forecast hours, share or save any chart

AND MORE
• Modern design for iPhone and iPad with full dark mode and a new appearance setting
• Faster and lighter: rebuilt natively with no third-party code
• Your settings carry over from the previous version automatically
• Still no account, no ads and no tracking

Questions or ideas? Email flyforecast@pocketfetch.com — we read everything. 2.0.1 Jul 10 Fly Forecast 2.0 is a complete rebuild of the app — faster, cleaner, and packed with new weather data.

THE LIVE MAP, SUPERCHARGED
• Graphical AIRMET hazard layers: turbulence, icing, IFR conditions, mountain obscuration, surface winds, wind shear and freezing level
• Domestic and international SIGMETs drawn right on the map
• Live NWS radar and GOES satellite imagery overlays
• Redesigned pilot-report symbols using standard aviation pictograms, with altitude shown on every report
• Choose between clustered or individual report symbols, three base map styles, and finer filters for severity, age and altitude

ALL-NEW AIRPORTS TAB
• Search 7,700+ airports by code, name or city
• Decoded current conditions (METAR) with VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR flight category
• Terminal forecasts (TAF), runway details, frequencies and nearby airports

UPDATED WEATHER CHARTS
• Rebuilt chart library with current NOAA sources: G-AIRMET graphics, Graphical Forecasts for Aviation, SIGMET charts, surface analysis, convective outlooks, radar mosaics and GOES-East/West satellite imagery
• Pinch to zoom, swipe between forecast hours, share or save any chart

AND MORE
• Modern design for iPhone and iPad with full dark mode and a new appearance setting
• Faster and lighter: rebuilt natively with no third-party code
• Your settings carry over from the previous version automatically
• Still no account, no ads and no tracking

Questions or ideas? Email flyforecast@pocketfetch.com — we read everything. 2.0.0 Jul 9 Version 1.4.1
• Optional Map overlay wasn't being updated correctly. All fixed now.

Version 1.4
• Bug fixes and performance improvements
• User Interface improvements
• Optional Map overlay of your speed, altitude, and location 1.4.1 01/07/2021 • Bug fixes and performance improvements
• User Interface improvements
• Optional Map overlay of your speed, altitude, and location 1.4 01/07/2021 • Bug fixes and minor improvements 1.3 03/10/2020 • A few User Interface enhancements
• General performance improvements
• Updated Aircraft and Airlines databases 1.2 03/05/2020 • Needed to squash one more minor bug 1.1.4 10/13/2019 • Minor bug fixes and performance improvements
• Support for iOS 13
• Dark mode is now supported
• Updated Aircraft and Airline database 1.1.3 10/12/2019 Minor bug fixes and various User Interface improvements. 1.1.2 07/05/2019 Bug fixes and various improvements. 1.1.1 06/28/2019 Minor UI improvements. 1.1 06/14/2019 1.0 06/13/2019