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Infrared Satellite Overlay
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AvPlan Live Traffic
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Keeping Your EFB Cool
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Drawing on Plates
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Freezing Level Overlay
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Transitioning from Planning to Flying
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Course Pointer
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Data Downloads
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A closer look at Airspace
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Adding an Alternate
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Quickly Accessing BOD/EOD details for your destination.
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Preparing a Plan for Re-Use
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Get to know the Nearest Items PopUp.
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Discussing Direct-To
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Let’s Talk LSALTs
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Terminal Page Shortcut
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New NavData – Using the app while it’s still downloading.
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‘Append Plan’ Button – What does it do?
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METAR Overlay – how to turn them on and what do they mean?
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SARTIMEs
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ASETPA Glide Calculator
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LSALT Calculator
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Flight plan submission changes
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Automatic Data Updates
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AvPlan EFB – Create a flight plan
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NAIPS Account Issues
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AirDrop
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Visualise a subdivision
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Reverse or Invert Flight Plan
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Area Frequency
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Link AvPlan to Dropbox
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Restricted Area Status
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New Download Page
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Push flight plans
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Disable Moving Map Mode
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Rotation Lock
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Export to your Garmin GPS
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Other Avionics
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No WnB arms displaying?
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PRD Display
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Share your flights with others online
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Resent a flight plan
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How to clear a flight plan
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Show/Hide Position on airport diagrams and approach plates
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Like the app?
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Buttons on the map
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Disable Variable Fuel Reserve
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Cancel direct-to
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Other Avionics
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Add an alternate
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Red (!) on Weather Pane
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Add a fix
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Dismiss keyboard on ‘Add Track Point’ window
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Delete a cached ERSA/DAP page
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Resubmit a flight plan
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Activate direct-to navigation in moving map mode
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Stored Plans Colour
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Like the app?
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Extend Battery Life
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Cancel Direct-To Navigation
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Delete a stored flight plan
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Cancel SARTIME
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Track Up Mode
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Enable AvSoft Cloud
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Terrain!
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Connect to X Plane
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EMail an aircraft
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Find a location
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Display table of contents for AIP
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Load the AvPlan user manual into iBooks
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Aircraft colours
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Delete an unwanted performance profile
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Default aircraft
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Display a SIGMET
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NAIPS fields
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Can not scroll map
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Download an aircraft model
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Keep it cool
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Automatic Backups
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
At-a-glance METARs
The METAR Overlay on the EnRoute map has been available in AvPlan EFB for a few years now, however what […]
Global Airspace
AvPlan EFB now includes a global database of controlled and special use airspace. No matter where you fly you can […]
PIREPs
AvPlan EFB 7.1 brings pilot in-flight reports (PIREPs) to our customers. PIREPs are updated via the internet, ADSB (USA Only) […]
Default Aircraft Icon
The Default Aircraft Icon is the icon that is displayed on the map whenever there is no plan currently open. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Adding a Delay
Got some aerial work you wish to do at/around a particular waypoint? Wish to add it to the flight plan […]
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 […]
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 […]
Critical Point
Eagle-eyed PRO Upgrade subscribers may have noticed a new Route Annotation popping up along their flight plan. It’s a little […]
Traffic Trails
Have you ever been watching traffic on the map and wondered what their next move might be? Now you can […]
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 […]
Aircraft Defaults
If you have an aircraft that is flown in a similar loading or setup, you can save time each and […]
Electronic Ruler
Electronic maps are wonderful things! No more folding, ripping or replacing. However, one thing that is eroded ever so slightly with […]
Glide
Have you wanted to use the Aircraft Glide envelope, but don’t have the necessary details to get it going? Let’s […]
AvPlan Live Traffic
See other AvPlan Live enabled users right on your map – no special equipment needed! AvPlan Live uses your internet connected […]
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 […]
Runway Centreline Extensions
These very handy little lines can be displayed on the map for your planned departure and arrival airports. Turning them on: […]
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 […]
Freezing Level Overlay
Most pilots (if not all!) will be familiar with the humble Synopic Chart. Where similar points of pressure are joined […]
Airspace Overlay
Depending on where you are, aviation maps may give you a lot of information, or they may give you very […]
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 […]
Pass Abeam
How do you track directly towards your distant destination, but still have timing points along your route? You could set […]
Course Pointer
The course pointer is a favourite feature of mine. At first it took me a moment to understand what it […]
Data Downloads
What do all those colours mean? The Data Downloads page can give you an at-a-glance window into the data you […]
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 […]
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, […]
Adding an Alternate
Having an appropriate alternate in your flight plan is an important part of being prepared. Thankfully, AvPlan EFB makes it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Let’s Talk LSALTs
Whenever you plan along an air route, the LSALT (Lowest Safe Altitude) for that published route is automatically entered in […]
Terminal Page Shortcut
Have you ever had to get to those RNAV-Z plates in the Terminal pane? If you scroll page by page […]
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, […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
SARTIMEs
AvPlan EFB goes to great lengths to ensure that you don’t forget to cancel your SARTIME. When you submit your […]
ASETPA Glide Calculator
New in AvPlan EFB 5.0 is the ASETPA Glide Calculator. This feature, unavailable anywhere else, shows you during flight planning […]
LSALT Calculator
AvPlan EFB 5.0 includes a LSALT calculator to assist you calculating RNP2 based lowest safe altitudes. To display the RNP2 […]
Flight plan submission changes
Recently, an upgrade in the Australian ATC systems means the use of RMK/GPSRNAV has been deprecated and now is ignored […]
Automatic Data Updates
In AvPlan EFB 4.0 we added the ability to to automated data updates. When enabled in Settings, User Settings, Automatic […]
AvPlan EFB – Create a flight plan
Here is a quick video tutorial on how to create and submit a flight plan with AvPlan EFB
NAIPS Account Issues
Around a year ago we transitioned into the new NAIPS environment (when all your NAIPS passwords changed). It appears though, […]
AirDrop
A new feature in iOS 7 is ‘AirDrop’. This allows information to be shared across different apps on different devices […]
Visualise a subdivision
In AvPlan you can now easily visualise a forecast subdivision. Tap Planning, Winds to view the various forecast overview’s for […]
Reverse or Invert Flight Plan
Tap the edit button under the flight plan (first of the 5 buttons) to expose two rows of buttons under […]
Area Frequency
The current and next area frequency can be displayed on the Data Labels (Map Settings, Show Position). If you tap […]
Link AvPlan to Dropbox
AvPlan can now be linked to a dropbox account (or a shared dropbox account for your company documents). Go to […]
Restricted Area Status
AvPlan 3.0 and above can display the current status of PRD areas on the map. Tap the map settings button […]
New Download Page
In AvPlan EFB there is a new map-based download page. Different map types can be selected at the top of […]
Push flight plans
We have added the ability to push a plan via the cloud with the touch of a button. Tap the […]
Disable Moving Map Mode
With the latest AvPlan update, when you disable ‘Moving Map Mode’ under Settings, User Settings, the Plan/Fly button enables and […]
Rotation Lock
During flight your iDevice will be subject to many changes in G forces, as you manoeuvre the aircraft. It is […]
Export to your Garmin GPS
AvPlan now supports exporting flight plans to your panel mount & newer Garmin GPS units. Tap the send button under […]
Other Avionics
With the introduction of the ICAO flight plan 2012 changes, there are some additional information required when specifying ‘Z’ or […]
No WnB arms displaying?
If your weight and balance arms are not displaying in the envelope (but the weight calculations look correct) the problem […]
PRD Display
The new PRD display on the planning pane displays the various restricted and danger areas that you are going to […]
Share your flights with others online
AvPlan supports sharing your flights with others by sending/emailing a link to your flight. Your route and ground track are […]
Resent a flight plan
If you have submitted a flight plan as NOSEND and then want to submit it again as a real plan, […]
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 […]
Show/Hide Position on airport diagrams and approach plates
AvPlan 2.0 can show your position on airport diagrams and approach plates. You can individually enable and disable the Aircraft […]
Like the app?
If you like the app, please rate it in the app store.
Buttons on the map
There are now two buttons at the bottom left hand side of the map. The left button toggles locking the […]
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 […]
Other Avionics
When adding an aircraft, the various avionics may be specified by tapping on ‘Avionics’. If you require to use ‘Z […]
Add an alternate
To add a flight plan leg to an alternate aerodrome, tap the ‘+’ at the top of the flight plan. […]
Red (!) on Weather Pane
The red (!) on the icon for the Weather pane indicates there is a SIGMET in the current forecast. […]
Add a fix
AvPlan includes the ability to add a fix to a map, just like drawing a circle around your current position […]
Dismiss keyboard on ‘Add Track Point’ window
One method of adding a track point to your plan is tapping the ‘+’ at the top right hand side […]
Delete a cached ERSA/DAP page
In some cases it can be necessary to delete a single ERSA or DAP page and have it re-download (if […]
Resubmit a flight plan
When a flight plan has been submitted using NOSEND, and then the same plan needs to be sent with a […]
Activate direct-to navigation in moving map mode
Moving map mode is enabled at any time when no flight plan is active. Tapping the map will bring up […]
Stored Plans Colour
At times you will notice the stored plans have different colours Black – all is in sync Blue – currently […]
Like the app?
If you like the app, when a new update appears in the App Store, go and rate the new version. […]
Extend Battery Life
To extend your battery life when flight planning, disable the moving map (which will turn off the GPS). Tap ‘Settings’, […]
Cancel Direct-To Navigation
In moving map mode, tapping the data labels that overlay the map will cancel direct-to navigation.
Delete a stored flight plan
An old stored flight plan can be deleted by swiping the row. Tap the delete button which appears and the […]
Cancel SARTIME
An active SARTIME can be cancelled directly by AvPlan. Firstly, submit a flight plan or SARTIME notification with AvPlan. At […]
Track Up Mode
To enable track up mode on the map, tap the map settings button and tap ‘Map Rotation’. With ‘track up’ […]
Enable AvSoft Cloud
AvSoft Cloud Services enable flight plans and aircraft details to be backed up and synchronised automatically across your various devices. […]
Terrain!
AvPlan includes a terrain database which covers all of Australia at a resolution of approximately 1km square. A view of […]
Connect to X Plane
Since version 1.6.1, AvPlan has included an interface to enable it to connect to X-Plane. Tap ‘Settings’, ‘User Settings’ and […]
EMail an aircraft
AvPlan can email complete aircraft models, which can be imported by other users on their devices. Tap ‘Settings’, ‘Aircraft Type […]
Find a location
AvPlan now includes the ability to search for a location. Tap the En Route pane to go to a map, […]
Display table of contents for AIP
The table of contents for the AIP is available in AvPlan 1.6.1. Tap ‘Text’ and open a section of the […]
Load the AvPlan user manual into iBooks
To load the AvPlan user manual into iBooks, on your iPad/iPhone, open Safari and open the user manual located at […]
Aircraft colours
The aircraft icon changes colour depending on the state of the GPS signal; Black when location information is unavailable, or […]
Delete an unwanted performance profile
To delete an unwanted performance profile, tap the aircraft icon under the flight plan, and then the aircraft. Swipe the […]
Default aircraft
By default, AvPlan will use the last aircraft and flight rules used to create a new flight plan.
Display a SIGMET
AvPlan will interpret and display current SIGMET’s as large orange areas on the map. To enable the SIGMET display, on […]
NAIPS fields
Additional fields in a NAIPS plan submission can be entered as follows; DLA/ – tap on the desired leg of […]
Can not scroll map
With ‘Centre on location’ set on the map, you will find you cannot scroll around (zooming will still work). To […]
Download an aircraft model
To download an aircraft model from the type database, Go to http://www.avplan-efb.com/wp/avplan/aircraft-model-database/ on your iPad or iPhone. Tap on a type and […]
Keep it cool
Your iPad and iPhone will shut down if they get too hot. To ensure that your device remains available, do […]
Automatic Backups
If you enter an email address and password into AvPlan (Tap Settings, User Details), the app will automatically backup your […]