This document provides streamlined
workflows to support adding waypoints and
incident mapping to the ForeFlight
Mobile app commonly used by
incident
flight crews assisting with suppression and
providing aerial intelligence.
The ability for pilots to navigate to an incident assignment and view the same common operational picture map as the ground resources is critical. Additionally, pilots need view aeronautical charts, aircraft traffic, aviation weather, hazards and obstacles, TFR's, and more in this same picture. Use of Intterra Maps and ForeFlight Mobile together can provide this common picture.
Add a waypoint to ForeFlight
Intterra
Maps provides
'click and navigate to'
functionality for pilots
using the ForeFlight app.
A mission location can be
shared
from Maps to Foreflight users
as a waypoint in just a
few clicks. No more
fat-fingering tedious
lat/lon
coordinates into
ForeFlight!
Steps
- Click
a location on the map that
you want to navigate to.
This
opens the opens
the Info
Panel.
Depending on
the client and user
role,
a ForeFlight section is
available
under Route
to
Location.
- The next
step
depends
on
-
- If you
are
using an iOS
device with ForeFlight Mobile installed,
for
example the
pilot,
- Click
on
ForeFlight. The
single click
opens ForeFlight,
adds a waypoint and opens the
waypoint panel. From here,
pilots
can click on Direct To to
create a route with heading
and
distance from you
location.
- If you want to share the add
waypoint link to a pilot from
any
device, for example an
aviation dispatcher or
manager,
- Click on the copy
icon. The link
is
now copied to your device
memory.
- Hold and paste the link into an email or other
means*
and share to with a
pilot.
- The receiving pilot can click
on the pasted
link*. This
opens ForeFlight and
adds
the waypoint as above.
*NOTE:
Requires a device with ForeFlight
Mobile installed
and within an app that supports
link-tapping, such as iOS Mail
App. Using a QR code generator
also works.
Add an Incident Map to ForeFlight
The ability to view the same common
operational picture map as the ground
resources is critical.
The ForeFlight app can import
geoPDF formatted
files as custom charts. This is the
format commonly shared to resources assigned
to the
incident via QR Code or hyperlink for use
in Avenza. The process for ForeFlight is the same.
There are two sources
-
- Larger incidents with an incident
management
team. Various incident
map products are published and
shared. The may be a pilot pilot
specific product available with additional
information such as routes and checkpoints
and list of helispots and dip sites with
coordinates.
- Initial and extended attack
incidents prior to a team
arriving. The incident
location and
currently mapping being view by the
responders can be exported as geoPDF
formatted files by users from
within Intterra Maps. An
email with a hyperlink to the file is sent
to the user for use and
sharing.
Regardless of who produces the
files, the process for importing these maps
into ForeFlight as custom content
charts is the
same.
Steps
- Open the map document
- QR Code - Use the iOS
Camera app to view the QR
Code. Open in link the Safari
browser. If more than one link,
navigate desired one and select
it.
- Hyperlink - Tap the link,
open the document in
Safari browser.
- Email Attachment - Open
the email and tap to download
the attachment.
- Click on
share.
- After the share modal appears, scroll
through the app list in the middle until
you reach ForeFlight, then tap
"ForeFlight". This will open
ForeFlight. Note: If you
don't see the app you
want,
select More to
see the complete list of
app
choices.
- Press Customer Content, Custom
Charts and the map is added
as a
custom
chart.
Give it try
Here is a incident map link
to try out. Using
an iOS device with ForeFlight
Mobile installed,
- Click Here
- Scan this
Create a shareable Map from Intterra
Maps
You can create your own custom chart in
Intterra Maps.
Steps
- Setup the map you want to share with
the desired basemap, layers, and
extent.
- Use the Layer Export
Tool to export
the
map. An
email will be sent to your account
email
address.
- Open and Click on the link in
the email and follow the process for
importing
via Hyperlink above.
Cleaning up ForeFlight at the end of
a mission
- Waypoint - Tap FPL at
the top of ForeFlight screen
and
then Clear.
- Incident Map Chart - Tap More at the bottom of ForeFlight screen, Custom
Content, Custom
Charts.
- To remove all the charts, click Edit and Delete All
Custom Charts.
- To remove a specific
chart,
select the chart to
remove, and then Delete Chart.
Additional Reference Material
Pilots can load these pdf reference documents to ForeFlight Mobile.