8Flight takes a clean sheet approach to what an EFB should be, while retaining many functions and flows you may be familiar with from other apps.
The "Charts" screen is the heart of the app. There you'll find enroute charts, weather, and all manner of airport destinations. And most importantly, a 7-day timeline to look at future weather and destinations at the time(s) you want to fly.
You can tap the screen anywhere outside of a map overlay to hide the map controls for a full-screen map experience. And you can tap anywhere on the map to display the controls again when they are hidden.
You can use the search box at the top of the screen to quickly find a particular airport, navaid, or fix; or input a full route.
The flight plan control area at the top of the screen can be dragged to resize or hidden completely. Tapping it's drag handle or anywhere on the bottom portion of it will quickly minimize that view to show only the Distance, ETE, ETA, Fuel, and Wind information, or again to quickly display the entire view.
The buttons on the left side of the screen provide fast access to frequently toggled information like weather observations (METARs/TAFs, Weather Cameras, & PIREPs), FBO fees for a given aircraft category, Fuel Prices (including Full-Service + Self-Serve for the absolute cheapest prices, or without Self-Serve to find the cheapest Full-Service prices), and Destinations (walkable restaurants, aviation museums, FBOs with free ice cream, fly-in events, and on-airport hotels). Selecting the bottom "Open Now" button filters any selected FBOs or destinations to only those open at the selected map time, and will change as the time slider is moved.
The layers button at the top left of the screen provides access to different aeronautical charts, weather overlays, and map overlays.
The timeline at the bottom allows you to select any hour in the next 7 days in order to view weather forecasts at that time, as well as destinations open at that time (with the "Open Now" button selected, which happens automatically when you first move the time slider too).
You can also tap and hold anywhere on the map to bring up waypoint information, access Skew-Ts and hourly weather, and more.
The "Airports" screen provides all sorts of airport details, from frequencies with a fast summary at the top (tap to scroll instantly to more frequency details); information such as remarks, runway details and winds, and airport / procedure charts; weather details; FBO information (tap to call or open in Google Maps); and NOTAMs (and a next-gen NOTAM system coming soon).
The "Flights" screen lets you view and save Flights for final planning and filing and to access a navlog or standard weather briefing.
"ScratchPad" lets you quickly take down notes.
"Profile" provides access to contract Fuel Cards, manage data Downloads, contact support, and more.
Learn more with our video guides: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuCOJ7ZSU7YtBHvLmDXAH-IuMrgSINLrO