Features List

Here's a full list of the aviation, flight planning and logbook features offered by iFlightPlanner - let us know if we are missing any features!

Intangibles

  • Easy-to-use: This is our motto.
  • Efficiency: Perform all of your pre-flight steps in one simple, sequential process, the iFlightPlanner Flight Wizard. At every point, we prefill as much as possible based on your previous steps and selections.
  • Peace of mind: The Flight Wizard has been designed to help you complete steps some pilots skip, including official weather briefings, weight & balance calculations and flight plan filing. Complete the wizard and rest assured you've crossed your t's and dotted your i's.
  • Mobility: Not at home? Every iFlightPlanner membership includes our mobile version, accessible from any web-enabled mobile device.

Aviation Weather

  • Seamless aviation charts on Google Maps with color-coded METARs, TAFs, TFRs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs and animated RADAR overlay
  • FAA Certified Weather Briefs
  • Flight Rules color-coded, translated METARs
  • Flight Rules color-coded, translated TAFs
  • Translated (plain english) NOTAMs
  • National & regional animated RADAR
  • Animated Satellite
  • Graphical AIRMET, SIGMET & PIREP
  • Text AIRMET, SIGMET, PIREP & Forecast Area
  • US Flight Rules map
  • Prog Charts
  • Wind graphs
  • Temperature graphs
  • Temperature difference graphs
  • Wind streamline graphs
  • Freezing levels graphs

Aircraft Profiles

  • Store up to 5 aircraft profiles
  • Choose from over 420 (and counting) aircraft models (accounting for 200k+ registered aircraft) entered directly from FAA Type Certificate Data Sheets
  • Set performance profile (climb, cruise & descent & fuel burns)
  • Add/edit fuel tank capacity, ramp burn & CG arm
  • Add/edit aircraft CG arms
  • Add/edit CG envelopes
  • Complete profile customization
  • Let us know if we don't have your model's base data!

Pilot Logbook

  • Upon flight completion, log all flight time details
  • Easily sort logbook by date or any category
  • View logbook totals over time
  • Export logbook to Excel spreadsheet at any time

Flight Planning

  • Easily generate flight routes
  • Choose from 6 routing types:
    • Low-Altitude Airway Auto-Routing
    • Jet Route Auto-Routing
    • VOR-Direct Auto-Routing
    • Direct Routing for GPS/LORAN
    • Direct Routing for RNAV
    • User Selected Routing
  • Enter airports, waypoints, NAVAIDs, VORs and more to create a custom routing
  • View routes on seamless aviation charts in Google Maps
  • Review aviation weather in relation to route with color-coded enroute METARs and TAFs, animated RADAR overlay, TFRs, AIRMETs, SIGMETs
  • Easily reroute around significant weather or other obstacles by right clicking on map to find nearby waypoints, VORs and facilities
  • Routing generates total fuel burn, time and distance, plus, for each segment:
    • Waypoints, waypoint type, lat/lon or frequencies
    • Winds & temps at altitude
    • Magnetic & true heading (based on wind)
    • True airspeed, groundspeed
    • Fuel burn, time and distance

Flight Plan Filing

  • Electronically file official IFR/VFR flight plans
  • Use flight wizard to pre-fill 98% of flight plan fields
  • Receive acknowledgment via e-mail or text when flight plan is delivered to Air Traffic Control (IFR) or Flight Service Station (VFR)
  • Easily close flight plans from web or mobile device

Weight & Balance / CG Calculations

  • Quickly compute aircraft weight & balance/CG
  • Utilize aircraft profile data (no need to re-enter data)
  • Color-coded results immediately identify CG envelope
  • Send weight & balance results to e-mail or text message

Airport Facility Directory

  • Complete FAA airport/facility directory
  • Add to your favorites for easy info & weather access
  • Facility info includes:
    • General facility information
    • Communications (frequencies)
    • Documents (airport diagrams, minimums, STARs, SIDs & procedures
    • Runway data
    • Remarks
  • Includes public and private facilities
  • Data updated every 56 days, documents every 28 days