Mobile FliteDeck VFR transition options
On 12 June, all current subscribers to our Mobile FliteDeck VFR app were informed that it will be replaced with ForeFlight Mobile as of 31 December 2019. Our parent company, Boeing, recently purchased ForeFlight, which provides the popular ForeFlight Mobile app for iPad® and iPhone®.
A software integration team is identifying the needs of our Mobile FliteDeck VFR customers and comparing the findings to the current versions of both apps. This will help our teams develop an even richer ForeFlight Mobile, customized for your European VFR flying requirements.
All those who have:
- tried and used Mobile FliteDeck VFR in the past,
- a current Mobile FliteDeck VFR service (expires before or after 31 December 2019)
- not yet tested Mobile FliteDeck VFR or any other iPad app from us,
please contact us at +49 6102 50 70 or fra-services@jeppesen.com to get information about all of our options for your VFR flying. We want to identify your best options on an individual basis as the Mobile FliteDeck VFR transition occurs through the remainder of 2019.
CONTACT US
On 12 June, all current subscribers to our Mobile FliteDeck VFR app were informed that it will be replaced with ForeFlight Mobile as of 31 December 2019. Our parent company, Boeing, recently purchased ForeFlight, which provides the popular ForeFlight Mobile app for iPad® and iPhone®.
A software integration team is identifying the needs of our Mobile FliteDeck VFR customers and comparing the findings to the current versions of both apps. This will help our teams develop an even richer ForeFlight Mobile, customized for your European VFR flying requirements.
All those who have:
- tried and used Mobile FliteDeck VFR in the past,
- a current Mobile FliteDeck VFR service (expires before or after 31 December 2019)
- not yet tested Mobile FliteDeck VFR or any other iPad app from us,
please contact us at +49 6102 50 70 or fra-services@jeppesen.com to get information about all of our options for your VFR flying. We want to identify your best options on an individual basis as the Mobile FliteDeck VFR transition occurs through the remainder of 2019.
CONTACT US
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For those of us who have ForeFlight with Jeppesen charts, a revision letter similar to what JeppView had, would be a MAJOR enhancement.
Thank you for the info.
This is good news – if my Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck VFR will integrate into my ForeFlight Mobile just as smoothly as my JeppFD does when I am flying IFR using ForeFlight.
Hello,
Thank you for your comments and using our products. We will consider every input, however, development will take time and we will see what route to take is the best option for the whole flying community. If you have further and also detailed comments, please contact fra-services@jeppesen.com.
Jeppesen Team
Hello,
I am a satisfied user of mobile flite deck for several years. Now I am wondering if foreflight will be as useful for me, or if it is time for a change. Can you give me some further informations.
Best wishes
Martin
Hello
Thank you for using our products. We are sorry that you did not receive any information through the established channels. For your convenience and details on the transition please check here http://www.foreflightaboeingcompany.com/.
In order to give you the best options for your operations, please contact fra-services@jeppesen.com.
Jeppesen Team
Will Foreflight be replacing the Garmin Pilot any time soon for the USA market?
You need to put the mobile app VFR AS IS in foreflight. Nothing else will replace this app. Don’t change anything.
When big business buy a small company this is never good as all is geared towards big money, the airlines and destroying GA. We should stop using internet and going back to paper or we will become slave to the system of big money and governments. The proof is that you are cancelling a perfect VFR product to make more money.
I’m interested in Mobile Flight Deck IFR because I don’t want to pay for IFR Charts Twice. With Foreflight you have to purchase an IFR subscription then purchase a Jeppesen Subscription… it should be all one price and choose which charts you want … NACO or Jepp. I prefer the Jepp but don’t want to pay for both in order to get the jepp.
Hello,
Thank you for your comments and using our products. In order to give you the best options for your operations, please contact fra-services@jeppesen.com.
-Jeppesen Team
Guten Tag wie bekomme ich die Karten auf mein paid .?
Hallo – aus ihrer Frage ersehen wir, das Sie ForeFlight nutzen. Welche Karten wollen Sie den nutzen? Generell muss das entsprechende Kartenpaket ausgewählt und dann …..
-Jeppesen Team
Sorry, but I got no Information that all MFD-VFR users have to migrate to ForeFlight. To me, this Information is completely new!
Any my both mails with regard to the future of MFD-VFR remain unanswered.
My MFD-VFR expires on Aug 02.
What shall I do? What do you want me to do?
By the way, I know a lot of pilots who are fans of SkyDemon which is much more cheaper than Jeppesen Apps.
Regards,
Michael
Hello Michael,
thank you for using our products. We are sorry that you did not receive any information through the established channels. For your convenience and details on the transition please check here [link].
Until your expiration date, you can in parallel test the ForeFlight Mobile app.
We hope you have many happy landings and would love to welcome you in our ForeFlight community.
-Jeppesen Team
What a pity. A great product is being discontinued. For flying in Europe there is NO comparison between ANYTHING and Jepp VFR FD. Although not perfect it easily rated a 95 for anyone who wanted a dependable, legal, trouble-free, INTUITIVE, one-resource solution.
Foreflight is no comparison. To many moving parts and graphically unsatisfying to a large number of clients (remember: they could have changed earlier, had they wanted to). The beauty of Jeppesen was its dedication to VFR and uncompromisingly effective work flow for “serious VFR” (at least) in the European environment.
I am also shocked, that Jepp/Boeing allowed me to renew my subscription automatically a few days ago ALTHOUGH they knew that this product would be discontinued (I did not). This is seriously questionable business practice.
This is how customer choice falls by the wayside through the wonderful shareholder benefit (?) of “consolidation”. Maybe we should wait until Airbus puts out something better (won’t happen)? The European Jepp representatives tried hard to build a community around the Jepp VFR product. I do not envy their situation now. A lot of people must feel seriously let down. Does Boeing actually expect that all these disappointed customers will automatically transition to Foreflight (having had hat option earlier, as already stated)?
Let us hope that “G” develops their (Jepp-compatible) product to provide an alternative (unfortunately also not VFR centric, and still missing essential features).
A disappointed long-term user.
i see that the foreflight “solution” is umm, *not*. i fly into zurich airport on occasion…i *loved* being able to magnify the airport aeamlessly and then see the taxiways, neatly marked. not to mention the vfr approaches and departures. where are those now? seems like one must buy vfr for each countey and hope it’s integrated into the foreflight main map (i’m expecting it not to be). seriously, we had one unified solution for approaching unfamiliar fields across europe and now it’s just gone? i think this is somehow about elliminating competition and also saving costs. boo, boeing!