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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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