pilot edge anf foreflight

[machie]

Hi All,

I am a brand new user--have not flown a flight yet but am excited to get going. I am a simmer going back as far as holding those black cardboard ww2 silhouette aircraft over my bed at night in the 1940's---have been a pilot for almost as long--my godmother was a WW2Wasp and started me flying at Half Moon Bay Airport when I was 5 or 6 years old.
As I prepare to start using the system I have been looking through a million YouTube Videos related to the subject--Sky Vector and Fore Flight etc. ---I saw one video with the instructor from the Baltic flight Academy using Fore flight on a tablet of some type and wonder if he was using it only as a side reference device or was somehow using it to actually file a flight plan through some sort of connection?

Cheers and thanks for any comments on this question/issue.

Cheers

Dorn Cranert

[Keith Smith]

Hi Don,

You can use Foreflight as an electronic flight bag to reference sectional charts, TACs, low/high enroute, airport facility diagrams and terminal procedures. Additionally, you can send a signal from your simulator to Foreflight which will provide Foreflight with positional information so it can show your location on some or all of those charts (to have it on all of the charts, you need the pro subscription which includes georeferenced plates).

You cannot file a flight plan on PilotEdge from Foreflight yet, but we have had the discussion with the Foreflight team about it. For now, you file through our web site, or through the pilot client.

Welcome to the network! I learned to fly at San Carlos and have many landings logged at Half Moon Bay airport. It holds a special place in my heart because it was where I flew solo the day before my PPL ride.

[Ryan B]

I'm surprised the weather actually cooperates there (HAF) ... everytime I glance at the metar on skyvector its IFR.... sort of like Duluth - always a marine layer - get's really old really quick.

[machie]

Hi Keith, Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the information---I will try to learn how to send a signal from the sim to Fore Flight--any tutorial links on this technique would be much appreciated. ---

I still go down to Half Moon for lunch once in a while just to help get the olfactory memory going and help savor those heady, rich, aviation days just after WW2---My God Mother (Dorothy Davis)--who is seen often in the book "Wasp" by Vera Wilson had some sort of partnership in a surplus T6 and an old yellow Stinson---I did most of my very young flying in an old Piper Tri Pacer (the only thing small enough for me to reach the rudders. As for Ryan B's comments on the weather--- how true! Sometime in the early 1980's I met some interesting old instructors at the North Field in Oakland---they were WW@ and Korean War vets---one of the really impressed me with his tales of night time Artillery spotting in the mountains of North Korea and landing for lunch with his wife ion small sand spits at low tide in the N. Carolina Banks---I decided to ask for some lessons on some of these techniques and I was promptly taken on a number of Citabria flights to Half Moon for cross wind torture and ultra-short touch and goes on the 1/2 or 1/4 of the field that was not yet covered by fog--one day too many of Sweat, aching arms and legs and outright airsickness final ended that game for me---I did learn some things though---at least I think I did. I do know that you can turn a $100 Hamburger into a $500 Hamburger if you land at Half Moon for a Lunch just off the Runway in town and do not keep someone looking back at the runway at all times---it is also a good Idea to pay for your lunch in advance so that you can drop everything and run for the runway at a moment’s notice.
Cheers

Dorn

[Keith Smith]

Great stories! If you are using xplane, the ability to send xplane position info to Foreflight is already built into the sim, just got to settings->net connection->Ipad/Iphone and click the button to broadcast your location to the IPad.

If you're using FSX, you'll probably want to use an app like FSXflight: http://www.fsxflight.com/

[machie]

Thanks for the quick reply---I will get on this ASAP---this is real cool stuff and can really help me in my Pilot mentoring Hobby/avocation. Too old to fly in real life without another certified pilot on board--so mentoring is the logical next step---I actually find the sim more fun than the actual flying these days---not so many maintenance hours for each flying hours---at least Sim Maintenance is done with a cup of coffee by my side and on nights like this the opening of the NFL Season

Cheers

Dorn

[Keith Smith]

Dorn, glad to help. You're not alone. There were times in the past where I have skipped a real world proficiency flight and have just used the sim instead.