Quiz: Can you find the hidden flight planning data in ForeFlight?

While iPad apps like ForeFlight have consolidated all the flight planning resources in one convenient location, you have to know where to look in the app to find key data when planning a flight. Test your knowledge on some of these gotchas in our latest quiz.

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Where can you find the PAPI or VASI glide path angle for a runway?

Runways tab on the Airports screen

In the A/FD tab on the Airports screen

Airport diagram

Correct!
Wrong!

Where can you find the traffic pattern altitude for an airport?

Procedures tab on the Airports screen

Runways tab on the Airports screen

In the main data block for an airport on the Airports screen

Correct!
Wrong!

Where can you find the length of a displaced threshold for a runway?

Runways tab on the Airports screen

ForeFlight airport diagram

Taxiways button on the Airports screen

Correct!
Wrong!

Where can you find information on how to accomplish VOR receiver checks located?

In the A/FD tab on the Airports screen

In the Plates screen along with the instrument approach procedures

In the Chart Supplement document

Correct!
Wrong!

Where are IFR Alternate Minimums listed for an airport?

At the top of any approach chart for the airport

On the side panel of the IFR en route charts on the Maps screen

In the Arrival section of the Procedures tab on the Airports screen

Correct!
Wrong!

How can you determine the lighting intensity and color of a tower or obstacle on the map?

Enable the VFR sectional layer to view the tower details on the chart

Enable the Obstacles layer on the map and tap one of the symbols

The obstacle data is located in the remarks section for an airport in the A/FD tab on the Airports screen

Correct!
Wrong!

Where can you find a visual depiction of the freezing level across the U.S. when on the ground?

In the Freezing Level layer on the Maps screen

In the CONUS Surface graphics on the Imagery screen

In the Graphical AIRMETs section on the Imagery screen

Correct!
Wrong!

How can you determine the altitudes and operating hours of MOA airspace?

Tap and hold the airspace boundary on the maps screen

In the NOTAMs tab on the airports screen

It’s listed inside the airspace boundaries on VFR Sectional charts

Correct!
Wrong!

Where can you find the time zone for an airport?

In the airport data block on the VFR sectional chart

At the top of the airport diagram

On the More > Features tab on the Airports screen

Correct!
Wrong!

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