8Flight Features & Pilots' Guide

The app has five main tabs:Airports
With FBO fees by aircraft category, fuel pricing, and other details. At the top you'll find the airport diagram (tap to open full screen), airport details, and sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset times (and phase) when the moon is at least 25% illuminated.
Tapping the nearest button on the left will bring up the nearest airport, tapping a second time will reveal a list of nearest airports to select from. The map button on the right will show the current airport on the chart.    - Freq for instant access to airport frequencies. Fast Frequency buttons summarize frequencies in one glance at the top, and tapping a frequency type (eg. "App") will scroll immediately to those frequencies.    - Info is where you can find A/FD (Chart Supplement) remarks, Airport A/FD entries and Taxi Diagrams, and (for 8Flight Aviator plan subscribers) IFR plates (SID, STAR, Approach).    - Weather tab where you can see the latest weather for that airport, including "1-minute" AWOS data where available, nearest METAR, nearest TAF, and soon D-ATIS.    - FBOs lists FBOs with fees and fuel prices by aircraft category, as well as hours and other amenities offered (like free ice cream). You can tap an FBO to call them or open in Google Maps.    - NOTAMS lists airport NOTAMs ordered by most recently updated. (Airport NOTAMs are not currently available offline, but Briefings are, and we have big improvements coming to NOTAMs in June.)

Charts
Where you can view a mosaic FAA VFR sectional (and for Aviator subscribers, IFR low/high charts), overlaid with whatever data you select from the left-side toolbar: METARs/TAFs, FBO fees for the currently selected category (from the Airports tab), fuel prices (100LL / Jet, all or full-serve only), airport restaurants (and FBOs with ice cream), airport hotels, and "Open Now" to filter data to display only FBOs/restaurants that are open at the selected time. You can tap the screen to show/hide the controls. Select any map item for more details (and tap the magenta airport symbol on any airport weather details to go to that airport's full information.)The layers button at the top left allows you to select the current chart and weather overlay (realtime/forecast radar/tops, realtime IR satellite cloud tops, forecast icing, forecast turbulence, forecast clouds, and forecast winds/temps (<FL180 blue if <0C, orange if >ISA+15, black otherwise; FL180+ blue if <ISA-15, orange if >ISA+15, black otherwise).
Any layer with multiple vertical levels will display a slider on the right side of the screen to select the desired altitude. Radar, clouds, and winds are available hourly to 7-days; other layers are currently limited to 18 hours.
Realtime radar is optimized for devices released in the past two years, but we're constantly improving performance on older devices as well.AIRMETs/SIGMETs, PIREPs, special use airspace, and airspace/security NOTAMs (like TFRs) are always displayed. Tap on any to view more details. Airspace (colored according to type) and TFRs (red) active within the next hour are displayed for the selected time. When the current/realtime is selected, TFRs active within the next 48 hours are displayed in orange. (8Flight is the only app to display full airspace schedules, as well as all AIRMETs/SIGMETs and for their correct valid times.)Tap and hold anywhere on the map to bring up airspace details and nearby airports and waypoints.    - Timeline: at the bottom allows you to display data for the selected time -- weather (currently: AIRMETs/SIGMETs, TAFs, and forecast weather radar) or FBOs/restaurants that are open at that time (if "Open Now" is also selected). You can tap and drag the selected time or tap the left/right arrows above the timeline to change the selected day/time.    - Location: Selecting the Charts tab icon again will center the map on your current location and track it until you move the map again manually. Selecting it once more after centering / while tracking, will rotate the map to a “track-up” view.    - Search: at the top allows you to zoom to a particular airport or fix or plot a route between several airports/waypoints. 8Flight's unique "Route Search" continues to present results as you type so you can rapidly search for every point in your route (soon all waypoints and airways/procedures too).
You can also tap and drag the plotted route to add/remove additional waypoints.    - Flight Plan Controller: at the top summarizes route data and allows you to edit flight plan parameters. Select / configure an "Aircraft", then select / configure an appropriate "Performance Profile" (user configurable climb/cruise/descent profiles, with prebuilt per-aircraft profiles coming in a couple weeks for Aviator subscribers). Then once you have a route entered either via the search bar or by tapping any "+" box to begin entering route elements in the flight plan view, you can compare "Altitudes" or select from "Routes" suggestions. "Reverse" the route or "Clear Route." Aviator subscribers can "Save Flight" to send the current flight plan to the Flights view and generate a navlog or briefing and file / amend IFR/VFR flight plans or activate / close VFR flight plans.Tap and drag on the handle at the bottom to resize the flight plan controller, or tap the handle / data fields to quickly show or hide the editor while keeping the Dist / ETE / ETA / Fuel / Wind information on the screen.8Flight automatically downloads weather aloft for the region of your flight, allowing you to make changes offline on the fly, generally anywhere within at least hundreds of miles and several hours of your route.

Flights
Allows you to create, organize, and view flights for planning, briefing, or filing. Create or select a flight to view and edit details, generate navlogs and briefings, or view an expected IFR route after filing. In an individual flight, tapping the map button will send that flight to the map. When you're ready, tap "File" to enter/review final details and scroll to the bottom to file a flight plan.

Scratchpad
Offers a notetaking space to draw / write notes with undo / redo and clear.

Profile
Where you can configure account settings, add and view your contract jet fuel programs, and more.


In general, any information viewed anywhere in the app will then be available offline as well.

FAQ

What about other data like TFRs, NOTAMs, Frequencies, etc?
8Flight is now a full EFB, with airport details (frequencies, runway info, etc), NOTAMs (including all TFRs), military airspace activations (including ones that no other EFB provides), and more.Can I file a flight plan?
8Flight features one-touch planning, filing, and briefing (with built-in aircraft performance profiles coming soon). This is part of the new 8Flight Aviator subscription tier ($99/yr) that includes IFR charts and plates.What about IFR charts and plates?
Full IFR charts and georeferenced plates are available with the 8Flight Aviator subscription plan.Do you have a desktop / web version?
The app is currently available on iOS, iPadOS, and (Apple Silicon) Macs. You can download it from the App Store on any recent Apple device.