iFly EFB web application?

[Cobra]

Bottom Line Up Front: What are the chances iFly EFB could be ported to a web application? (Apparently, FF has a web app...)

I was engaged in a discussion with a FF user, and we were talking about our flight planning flows. He was talking about how convenient it was to do all of his flight planning and filing from within FF. I mentioned that I often used tools other than iFly for early flight planning in part because I don't always have my tablet with me, and don't like to use the small screen on my phone for that work.

He said, "ForeFlight can be used on phone, tablet, and web, and I use all three for exactly the reasons you're talking about. Long range planning at the trip level, it's really nice to have the whole thing on a 27" 4K display.". I was like,


Can we get that??!?

 

[Don Norris]

That's what I use the Windows app for - on the PC with the big monitor, all my WX resources, etc.

 

[Cobra]

That's what I use the Windows app for - on the PC with the big monitor, all my WX resources, etc.

Yes, and I have that on my personal laptop.

But I'm not allowed to install iFly on my work computer. If I could take a short break from work and pop open iFly in a browser window, I might be more likely to do more/all of my flight planning / filing within iFly.

This could be a good solution for Mac users, too.

 

[MDreger]

I second/third this. I don't know how easy it is to make the Windows version a web app, and I suppose the argument would be that they would still want to limit the number of applications/versions we could have on a single or a multi platform application.

Perhaps the answer is to make the web app unusable for navigation. Remove the GPS, ADSB, AHRS, and any other ability that would be for active navigation. Leave in:
- the ability to gather an display weather,
- the simulator so we can prefly the trip at a speed fast enough to see any potential problems in the route.
- gas prices
- Real Plan
- anything we would need to plan and share the plan across our other devices, but not actually fly the plan, other than in the simulator.

 

[Cobra]

I second/third this. I don't know how easy it is to make the Windows version a web app, and I suppose the argument would be that they would still want to limit the number of applications/versions we could have on a single or a multi platform application.

Perhaps the answer is to make the web app unusable for navigation. Remove the GPS, ADSB, AHRS, and any other ability that would be for active navigation. Leave in:
- the ability to gather an display weather,
- the simulator so we can prefly the trip at a speed fast enough to see any potential problems in the route.
- gas prices
- Real Plan
- anything we would need to plan and share the plan across our other devices, but not actually fly the plan, other than in the simulator.

I'd be okay with that limitation.

 

[Chad]

I still maintain my FF account mainly for IFR flying. Would love to get rid of it and hoping that iFly can get to parity on the IFR side.

I find the FF web app is useful for downloading track logs to upload into MyFlightbook. I use my iPad for pretty much everything else related to FF. It is easier due to muscle memory and the fact I constantly pack info I case I don’t have connectivity later.

With that said it would be nice to have similar functionality.