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Star your STARs!

Have you wished you can have particular plates or taxi diagrams handy, regardless of what airport you’re viewing in the […]

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Full Screen Flight Log

The interactive electronic flight log has always been one of the core features of AvPlan EFB.  An option recently added to […]

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Is Your Airspace Active?

As well as the usual active airspace regions (military airspace, etc) pilots are used to seeing around their region that have […]

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At-a-glance METARs

The METAR Overlay on the EnRoute map has been available in AvPlan EFB for a few years now, however what […]

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Default Aircraft Icon

The Default Aircraft Icon is the icon that is displayed on the map whenever there is no plan currently open. […]

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Entering Passenger Names

If you simply add a weight to a load station, it’s treated as cargo by AvPlan EFB.  If you wish to […]

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Printed Flight Plan Options

A new feature that appeared in AvPlan EFB version 6 is the ability to control certain aspects of how your printed […]

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Adding a Delay

Got some aerial work you wish to do at/around a particular waypoint?  Wish to add it to the flight plan […]

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Sharing Your Location With Others

Last week, I touched upon sharing a particular flight plan with friends or loved-ones.  But what if you don’t wish […]

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Sharing Your Flight Plan With Others

There may be many times that you’d like to share your flight live with others on the ground.  They could […]

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Critical Point

Eagle-eyed PRO Upgrade subscribers may have noticed a new Route Annotation popping up along their flight plan. It’s a little […]

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Traffic Trails

Have you ever been watching traffic on the map and wondered what their next move might be?  Now you can […]

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Infrared Satellite Overlay

Most pilots will be used to looking at the Rain RADAR overlay; it’s a great tool, however this does not necessarily […]

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Aircraft Defaults

If you have an aircraft that is flown in a similar loading or setup, you can save time each and […]

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Electronic Ruler

Electronic maps are wonderful things! No more folding, ripping or replacing. However, one thing that is eroded ever so slightly with […]

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Glide

Have you wanted to use the Aircraft Glide envelope, but don’t have the necessary details to get it going? Let’s […]

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AvPlan Live Traffic

See other AvPlan Live enabled users right on your map – no special equipment needed! AvPlan Live uses your internet connected […]

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Keeping Your EFB Cool

Things are starting to really heat up for those flying down in the Southern Hemisphere.  However, it doesn’t just take […]

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Runway Centreline Extensions

These very handy little lines can be displayed on the map for your planned departure and arrival airports. Turning them on: […]

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Drawing on Plates

Whether it’s making notes to yourself or highlighting important text, the plate drawing feature in the Terminal pane can come in […]

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Freezing Level Overlay

Most pilots (if not all!) will be familiar with the humble Synopic Chart.  Where similar points of pressure are joined […]

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Airspace Overlay

Depending on where you are, aviation maps may give you a lot of information, or they may give you very […]

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Transitioning from Planning to Flying

After you’ve prepared your flight plan, it’s time to go fly it.  Here’s a typical transition from planning phase to […]

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Pass Abeam

How do you track directly towards your distant destination, but still have timing points along your route? You could set […]

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Course Pointer

The course pointer is a favourite feature of mine.  At first it took me a moment to understand what it […]

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Data Downloads

What do all those colours mean? The Data Downloads page can give you an at-a-glance window into the data you […]

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Route Annotations

Hi Team, Apologies for missing last week’s tip! My approach to Friday became unstabilised, so I’ve completed a go-around and […]

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A closer look at Airspace

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the Nearest Items popup.  That was a single tap on the map, […]

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Adding an Alternate

Having an appropriate alternate in your flight plan is an important part of being prepared.  Thankfully, AvPlan EFB makes it […]

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Quickly Accessing BOD/EOD details for your destination.

There are many reasons why pilots should be aware of daylight hours – particularly Day VFR pilots. If you’re ever […]

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Preparing a Plan for Re-Use

We here at AvPlan EFB headquarters often get asked the question, “How do I re-use a plan that I’ve already […]

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Get to know the Nearest Items PopUp.

Every AvPlan EFB user has probably tapped on this many hundreds of times (if not thousands!).  If you stop and […]

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Discussing Direct-To

Everyone is probably aware of the Direct-To and how it functions on a GPS-enabled device.  But what if I told […]

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Let’s Talk LSALTs

Whenever you plan along an air route, the LSALT (Lowest Safe Altitude) for that published route is automatically entered in […]

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Terminal Page Shortcut

Have you ever had to get to those RNAV-Z plates in the Terminal pane? If you scroll page by page […]

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New NavData – Using the app while it’s still downloading.

It’s that time again – new NavData cycle.  NavData is at the core of AvPlan EFB, containing waypoints, airways, navaids, […]

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‘Append Plan’ Button – What does it do?

Append Plan is a very handy feature of Edit Mode.  It allows you to extract waypoints from another plan and have […]

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METAR Overlay – how to turn them on and what do they mean?

METARs are those coloured little circles on the map you may have seen when you first started AvPlan EFB.  They are […]

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Have you wished you can have particular plates or taxi diagrams handy, regardless of what airport you’re viewing in the […]

Read More

The interactive electronic flight log has always been one of the core features of AvPlan EFB.  An option recently added to […]

Read More

As well as the usual active airspace regions (military airspace, etc) pilots are used to seeing around their region that have […]

Read More

The METAR Overlay on the EnRoute map has been available in AvPlan EFB for a few years now, however what […]

Read More

The Default Aircraft Icon is the icon that is displayed on the map whenever there is no plan currently open. […]

Read More

If you simply add a weight to a load station, it’s treated as cargo by AvPlan EFB.  If you wish to […]

Read More

A new feature that appeared in AvPlan EFB version 6 is the ability to control certain aspects of how your printed […]

Read More

Got some aerial work you wish to do at/around a particular waypoint?  Wish to add it to the flight plan […]

Read More

Last week, I touched upon sharing a particular flight plan with friends or loved-ones.  But what if you don’t wish […]

Read More

There may be many times that you’d like to share your flight live with others on the ground.  They could […]

Read More

Eagle-eyed PRO Upgrade subscribers may have noticed a new Route Annotation popping up along their flight plan. It’s a little […]

Read More

Have you ever been watching traffic on the map and wondered what their next move might be?  Now you can […]

Read More

Most pilots will be used to looking at the Rain RADAR overlay; it’s a great tool, however this does not necessarily […]

Read More

If you have an aircraft that is flown in a similar loading or setup, you can save time each and […]

Read More

Electronic maps are wonderful things! No more folding, ripping or replacing. However, one thing that is eroded ever so slightly with […]

Read More

Have you wanted to use the Aircraft Glide envelope, but don’t have the necessary details to get it going? Let’s […]

Read More

See other AvPlan Live enabled users right on your map – no special equipment needed! AvPlan Live uses your internet connected […]

Read More

Things are starting to really heat up for those flying down in the Southern Hemisphere.  However, it doesn’t just take […]

Read More

These very handy little lines can be displayed on the map for your planned departure and arrival airports. Turning them on: […]

Read More

Whether it’s making notes to yourself or highlighting important text, the plate drawing feature in the Terminal pane can come in […]

Read More

Most pilots (if not all!) will be familiar with the humble Synopic Chart.  Where similar points of pressure are joined […]

Read More

Depending on where you are, aviation maps may give you a lot of information, or they may give you very […]

Read More

After you’ve prepared your flight plan, it’s time to go fly it.  Here’s a typical transition from planning phase to […]

Read More

How do you track directly towards your distant destination, but still have timing points along your route? You could set […]

Read More

The course pointer is a favourite feature of mine.  At first it took me a moment to understand what it […]

Read More

What do all those colours mean? The Data Downloads page can give you an at-a-glance window into the data you […]

Read More

Hi Team, Apologies for missing last week’s tip! My approach to Friday became unstabilised, so I’ve completed a go-around and […]

Read More

A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the Nearest Items popup.  That was a single tap on the map, […]

Read More

Having an appropriate alternate in your flight plan is an important part of being prepared.  Thankfully, AvPlan EFB makes it […]

Read More

There are many reasons why pilots should be aware of daylight hours – particularly Day VFR pilots. If you’re ever […]

Read More

We here at AvPlan EFB headquarters often get asked the question, “How do I re-use a plan that I’ve already […]

Read More

Every AvPlan EFB user has probably tapped on this many hundreds of times (if not thousands!).  If you stop and […]

Read More

Everyone is probably aware of the Direct-To and how it functions on a GPS-enabled device.  But what if I told […]

Read More

Whenever you plan along an air route, the LSALT (Lowest Safe Altitude) for that published route is automatically entered in […]

Read More

Have you ever had to get to those RNAV-Z plates in the Terminal pane? If you scroll page by page […]

Read More

It’s that time again – new NavData cycle.  NavData is at the core of AvPlan EFB, containing waypoints, airways, navaids, […]

Read More

Append Plan is a very handy feature of Edit Mode.  It allows you to extract waypoints from another plan and have […]

Read More

METARs are those coloured little circles on the map you may have seen when you first started AvPlan EFB.  They are […]

Read More