C-5 FE and UPT Select here. Im finishing up my PPL and man I’ve learned more about Foreflight with you than 5 years behind pilots. Appreciate these videos! Thank you!
@@SethLakeDPE I’m Using the sim game MSFS 2020 with Foreflight to fly ifr in with the G1000 and autopilot. The I hand fly. Cheaper to make errors in the Sim before I start CFIII
I just draw lines on my map, with little acronyms. Usually 3, for VFR flights. One for “WX” (approx 30nm out) One for “TOD” (found by the long-touch method you describe, adjusted as necessary) One 10nm out to remind me to request/change to tower & put ground in standby, noted as “T/GS”
Hey Seth thanks for the tip. Another way I found was to use the NavLog to get the distance remaining at TOD and then plug the number in the way you showed on the flight plan. This avoids having to use the ruler.
You may run into a scenario where ForeFlight tells you that the leg isn’t long enough to set an Along-Track offset. Most likely, this is because the TOD is prior to a specific waypoint in your Flightplan. For example, if you were to use the most commonly-approved route from KPWT to KAST along a V-airway at 6000 feet, you would have this as your Route - KPWT CARRO V165 OLM V187 AST KAST. If you were flying a 172P, your top of descent would be approx. 23.1 nm Northeast of KAST. But you can’t set a waypoint 23.1 nm NE of KAST using V187 - because HEVOL is inside of 23.1 miles. The solution is to expand V187 by clicking on V187 while in Edit mode, and then Expand V187. You will now see HEVOL listed as a V187 waypoint - remove it. You can now set an Along-Track waypoint of 23.1 nm, and then add HEVOL back into the flight plan
Will the TOD Bluetooth transfer from ForeFlight into a flight plan on the garmin GPS units? If unknown, I will gladly report my findings by trying this myself. (GNC355 unit)
The difficulty is that as soon as you go to use the slide ruler that dot disappears. So it’s very hard to put the slide ruler in the exact spot. I wish Foreflight would fix this.
foreflight's flight planning needs some more work on the side of software developers, it is not intuitive and has some issues. I mean the profile view and making altitude corrections to accommodate overlying class B. It quickly takes you to TOC and you can not adjust it. You can not set different altittudes for different legs of the flight.
Agreed that they could make the vertical profile information a little better. However, this display will only be used to help your SA and isn't a replacement for good vertical planning for the individual aircraft and conditions.
C-5 FE and UPT Select here. Im finishing up my PPL and man I’ve learned more about Foreflight with you than 5 years behind pilots. Appreciate these videos! Thank you!
Awesome! Good to hear from an FE making the moving to the front seat!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. I’m a fan. Working on my instrument rating. Just started flying again after 30 years.
Awesome! Good to hear your getting back in the saddle. Best of luck with your training!
@@SethLakeDPE I’m Using the sim game MSFS 2020 with Foreflight to fly ifr in with the G1000 and autopilot. The I hand fly. Cheaper to make errors in the Sim before I start CFIII
I just draw lines on my map, with little acronyms. Usually 3, for VFR flights.
One for “WX” (approx 30nm out)
One for “TOD” (found by the long-touch method you describe, adjusted as necessary)
One 10nm out to remind me to request/change to tower & put ground in standby, noted as “T/GS”
Great technique!
That’s a great tip, thanks Seth!
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Hey Seth thanks for the tip. Another way I found was to use the NavLog to get the distance remaining at TOD and then plug the number in the way you showed on the flight plan. This avoids having to use the ruler.
Great idea!
You may run into a scenario where ForeFlight tells you that the leg isn’t long enough to set an Along-Track offset. Most likely, this is because the TOD is prior to a specific waypoint in your Flightplan.
For example, if you were to use the most commonly-approved route from KPWT to KAST along a V-airway at 6000 feet, you would have this as your Route - KPWT CARRO V165 OLM V187 AST KAST. If you were flying a 172P, your top of descent would be approx. 23.1 nm Northeast of KAST. But you can’t set a waypoint 23.1 nm NE of KAST using V187 - because HEVOL is inside of 23.1 miles.
The solution is to expand V187 by clicking on V187 while in Edit mode, and then Expand V187. You will now see HEVOL listed as a V187 waypoint - remove it. You can now set an Along-Track waypoint of 23.1 nm, and then add HEVOL back into the flight plan
Great breakdown. You're absolutely correct.
Will the TOD Bluetooth transfer from ForeFlight into a flight plan on the garmin GPS units? If unknown, I will gladly report my findings by trying this myself. (GNC355 unit)
I think it depends on how you build it. If you make it a custom point I believe it will transfer over. Try it out and let us know!
I built the flight plan as instructed in the video and connected via Bluetooth to my GNC355 and transferred the flight plan. It worked!
Seems silly that Foreflight doesn't have an option to do this automatically
Someday I'm sure it will. They consistently add features
The difficulty is that as soon as you go to use the slide ruler that dot disappears. So it’s very hard to put the slide ruler in the exact spot. I wish Foreflight would fix this.
That is a shortcoming
I tried doing this but sadly I don't have the pro subscription
Bummer
strangely this doesn't work for TOC, because there's no along-track offset for the first entry.
For the TOC, you would need to build an offset based on the second point or just manually create a point using the rubber band feature.
@@SethLakeDPE yeah, rubber band seems easiest.
foreflight's flight planning needs some more work on the side of software developers, it is not intuitive and has some issues. I mean the profile view and making altitude corrections to accommodate overlying class B. It quickly takes you to TOC and you can not adjust it. You can not set different altittudes for different legs of the flight.
Agreed that they could make the vertical profile information a little better. However, this display will only be used to help your SA and isn't a replacement for good vertical planning for the individual aircraft and conditions.