Recent content by Eric Reyes

For all of you who repeated “if you read it it’s true and if you hear it it’s magnetic” you are missing my point. As I stated before I checked over a dozen airports out West where they have very large magnetic variations +10 degrees or more and at every airport the reported written METAR wind...

So when you place two fingers at a distance apart on the Maps page, a ruler pops up and the tape on the top and bottom side of the ruler lists magnetic course, distance, and the estimate time in route between the two points on each end of the ruler. If the two points on each end of the ruler...

So the airspeeds for climb and cruise in the Nav log are always spot on. The problem is just the last led from top of descent into the arrival airport. I double checked the performance profile for the aircraft which is a 172 and everything appears correct. Because I went with the ForeFlight...

I was taught that if you read a wind direction in text form it will be based on true north, such as METARS, TAFS, and wind aloft forecasts and if it’s spoken, the wind direction will be based on magnetic such as ATIS, AWOS, ASOS. However I spent the last half hour listening via the ATC app to...

Ok. ForeFlight sent me a reply to my support ticket. They said that that use the POH descent speeds for a normal descent for their performance profiles, but then they add some extra time for flying the pattern and landing. So a 90 KTAS descent for 10 miles from TOD to entering the pattern plus...

Thanks. I’m definitely looking at true air speed (TAS) in the NavLog. On one flight with a headwind, the NavLog had me traveling at 54 KTAS from top of descent to destination and my ground speed was only around 45 knots due to a head wind. You are correct that this slow true airspeed are...

I have found a number of errors in the ForeFlight Flight planning engine. I planned a flight in a Cessna 172S traveling 55 miles at 4,500 feet at 2,400 rpms with a cruise true air speed of 108 knots. I exported this flight from the Maps page to the Flights page and then viewed the Navlog on the...