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AvPlan Web: What’s New Since Launch

Discover what’s new in AvPlan Web since its July launch, including new route options, New Zealand weather, aircraft imports, flight paperwork and tools for operators.

Happy 7th Birthday, AvPlan EFB

Today AvPlan EFB turns seven! On the 10th of August 2011 we had our first release approved by Apple and […]

There are more to winds that meets the eye

In November 2017 Australian aviation went through the first major change in forecasting in many years with the introduction of […]

Satellite Map – AvPlan EFB 7.6

AvPlan EFB 7.6 AvPlan EFB 7.6 is now available in the App Store as a free update for all users. […]

Infrastructure upgrades

This weekend the AvPlan EFB devops team completed a major upgrade to the supporting computing infrastructure that powers AvPlan EFB. Over […]

AvPlan EFB Data Updates, 12 November 2015

Data updates for AvPlan EFB valid from the 12 of November 2015 are now available for download. For US users […]

AvPlan EFB 5.3

AvPlan EFB 5.3 is now available from the Apple App Store as a free update for all users. AvPlan EFB […]

Aces High for AvPlan EFB and Paul Bennet Airshows

The team at AvPlan EFB is excited to announce their partnership with Paul Bennet Airshows. “We’re proud that we can […]

AvPlan EFB comes to Apple Watch

We have been hard at work in the back rooms preparing AvPlan EFB for Apple Watch. We have taken the […]

SARTIMEs

AvPlan EFB goes to great lengths to ensure that you don’t forget to cancel your SARTIME. When you submit your […]

Australian Bonanza Society BPPP – Narromine

This weekend I spent time with the Australian Bonanza Society at their biennial BPPP (Bonanza Pilot Proficiency Program) at Narromine […]

Australian Grand Prix TRA

The TRA for the Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park Lake is now active.   Users of AvPlan EFB will […]

Jeppesen FliteDeck

One of our big new features in AvPlan EFB 5.0 is the integration with Jeppesen FliteDeck. With this, you can […]

LSALT Calculator

AvPlan EFB 5.0 includes a LSALT calculator to assist you calculating RNP2 based lowest safe altitudes. To display the RNP2 […]

AvPlan EFB 5.0

AvPlan EFB 5.0 is our largest single release so far since the launch of AvPlan back in August 2011. In […]

Data Updates Valid from March 5th 2015

Data updates valid from the 5th of March are now available for download. For US users, the sectional, enroute, AFD […]

AvPlan EFB : Avalon Airshow – Civil Innovation Award Winner

We are extremely proud to announce that we have been awarded a major innovation award at the 2015 Australian International […]

25 years and (not) counting

Today marks a pretty significant milestone in my life. Today, 25 years ago I had my first flying lesson. December […]

AvPlan 3.3.1

AvPlan 3.3.1 is now available in the App Store. In this release we have fixed a few issues with aircraft […]

NAIPS Account Issues

Around a year ago we transitioned into the new NAIPS environment (when all your NAIPS passwords changed). It appears though, […]

AvSoft Australia is born!

Today we are extremely excited to announce the formation of AvSoft Australia Pty Ltd which is a joint venture between […]

How to clear a flight plan

If you have submitted a flight plan and want to reuse it, tap the edit button at the bottom left […]

What is flight planning?

I’ve been flying for 22 years now. When I started training I would trundle down to the briefing office at […]

Buttons on the map

There are now two buttons at the bottom left hand side of the map. The left button toggles locking the […]

Delays delays

AvPlan 2.0 was rejected again early this morning – All the issues stem from Apple’s insistence we change from auto-renewing […]

Disable Variable Fuel Reserve

Variable fuel reserves can be enabled or disabled on an aircraft by aircraft basis. Tap the aircraft symbol under the […]

Cancel direct-to

To cancel direct-to navigation, activate the appropriate leg in your plan. Tap and hold on the waypoint and a list […]

My Flights

We have launched a new area on our website, My Flights. Here you can view your flight plans online, and […]

Saturdays flight

AvPlan 1.1

The approval process for AvPlan 1.0 is still in progress with Apple. This however has not stopped work on AvPlan […]

AvPlan 1.0 Submitted

We have re-submitted AvPlan 1.0 to the Apple App Store for review. After initial rejection on some fine print points […]

AvSoft Store Now Open

With recent changes to the contractual fine print around subscriptions in the App Store we can now offer direct subscription […]

AvPlan for iPhone

The development effort for AvPlan for iPhone is rapidly coming to a conclusion, and it appears that the first release […]

First release submitted

AvPlan 1.0 has now been submitted for review to the Apple App store. We are looking forward to their review […]

New Radar Overlay

We have added animated weather radar data to AvPlan. An hour’s radar data is displayed on all map types (WAC, […]

Beta Update

We have been getting some great feedback from our beta testers. We have introduced some updated user interface elements and […]

Printing

Printing support via AirPrint has been added to AvPlan. Wirelessly from your device AvPlan will print your flight plan in […]

BOM Radars

The ability to display current routing on BoM radar images as now been added to AvPlan. The current route and […]

Beta Testing

Good news everyone! Beta testing has begun. At this stage we are looking for feedback on the user interface, the […]

User Interface

We have been putting in a bit of effort designing a user interface on the app which simple to understand […]