AOPA Flight Planner Interface for Easy Weather Access

AOPA has a great free product for its members, the AOPA Flight Planner (developed by Jeppesen). This product allows a pilot to create a detailed flight plan for a given flight. In addition, it has built in access to the various weather reporting agencies.

With the press of a single button, all AOPA Flight Planner weather information for a particular flight can be imported into the package file. This information includes all graphic images and text weather, NOTAMS, TFRs, etc. Now general aviation pilots without expensive weather computers can see in flight all the information upon which they based their flight plans.

Below is dialog box from the desktop program that allows the pilot to select both the images and the textual information desired. Below that are a few corresponding screenshots from the handheld device of the imported information.

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