YetiFlight Is Now Available — Is This the End of ForeFlight?

YetiFlight is no longer “coming soon.” It is here. Red Yeti Aviation built YetiFlight to give general aviation pilots a practical, connected electronic flight bag without forcing pilots to choose between useful capability and an expensive subscription.

The idea behind YetiFlight is simple: pilots should be able to plan the flight, check the weather, understand the terrain, manage the aircraft, review personal minimums, use common pilot tools, and continue learning without bouncing between a collection of unrelated apps.

What Is YetiFlight?

YetiFlight is an electronic flight bag (EFB) and pilot-training platform created by Red Yeti Aviation for iPhone and iPad. It combines the jobs pilots perform before and during a flight into one aviation-focused workflow.

Instead of treating the moving map, weather, aircraft profile, calculations, training material, and risk-management tools as separate products, YetiFlight is designed to let those pieces work together. Your route can inform your time, distance, and fuel estimates. Your aircraft profile can support planning calculations. Current weather can be viewed alongside the personal minimums you established before the pressure of the flight. Training material and instructor notes can remain with the same app you use to prepare for the flight.

Flight Planning and Aviation Charts

The chart and planning side of YetiFlight is designed to feel like the center of the app rather than an isolated map. Pilots can build VFR and IFR routes, work with airports and waypoints, review route distance, estimated time en route, fuel requirements, and NavLog information, and use aviation charts as the visual foundation for the flight.

YetiFlight supports sectional-chart workflows, airport and NAVAID information, route editing, measuring tools, terrain information, map layers, drawing tools, and downloadable map data. The goal is not to bury the pilot under controls. It is to make the information needed for the flight accessible when it matters.

Weather, Terrain, and Better Preflight Decisions

Weather is most useful when it is connected to the flight you are actually planning. YetiFlight brings aviation weather information such as METARs, TAFs, radar, winds, and other condition information into the planning workflow so pilots can evaluate conditions alongside the route and airports.

Terrain tools add another layer of situational awareness. Pilots can evaluate terrain in relation to the planned route and altitude and use profile information and terrain color layers as planning aids. These features do not replace official charts, minimum altitudes, required preflight information, or pilot judgment, but they can make potential concerns easier to recognize.

YetiFlight also puts emphasis on personal minimums and GO/NO-GO decision-making. Instead of writing personal limits down once and forgetting about them, the app is built to bring those limits into the actual preflight process.

Aircraft Tools That Stay With the Flight

A flight plan only means so much if the app does not understand the airplane being flown. YetiFlight allows pilots to build aircraft profiles and keep aircraft-specific information together with the rest of the planning workflow.

That includes tools for weight and balance, fuel calculations, aircraft speeds and limits, performance information, and aircraft documents. The Yeti Library provides a place for POHs, AFMs, checklists, training PDFs, and other aviation documents so they are easier to find when they are needed.

Pilot Tools Without Jumping Between Apps

YetiFlight includes common aviation tools pilots use during training and flight preparation, including an interactive E6B flight computer, crosswind calculations, density-altitude tools, cloud-base calculations, scratch-pad functions, and other cockpit utilities.

The point is not simply to create another calculator. The point is to keep those tools in the same place as the route, charts, aircraft, weather, and training information.

Where YetiFlight Is Different: Flight Training Is Built In

Red Yeti Aviation began with pilot training, and that is one of the areas where YetiFlight takes a different approach from a traditional EFB.

The flight-training section can include lesson-by-lesson progress, homework and preparation items, instructor signoffs, flight profiles, instructor notes, maneuver guidance, and checkride-readiness tracking. Instructors can keep notes and students can return later to see what needs improvement before the next lesson.

For a student pilot, that means the same app can follow the progression from learning a maneuver, preparing for the lesson, planning the flight, reviewing weather, loading the aircraft information, opening the chart, and flying. For an instructor, it creates a more organized way to keep training information connected with the cockpit tools the student is learning to use.

The Cost Question: YetiFlight vs. ForeFlight

ForeFlight is an excellent and mature aviation platform, and YetiFlight was not created simply to imitate it. But one of the biggest barriers for student pilots and general aviation pilots is the ongoing cost of aviation software.

YetiFlight was deliberately built to be a cost-effective alternative. The goal is to give pilots the core benefits they expect from a modern EFB—flight planning, charts, weather, terrain awareness, aircraft tools, calculations, documents, training resources, and connected decision tools—at a price that is easier to justify.

That puts YetiFlight's founding annual membership at roughly 46% less than ForeFlight Starter, 73% less than ForeFlight Essential, and 82% less than ForeFlight Premium, based on current published U.S. individual pricing.

YetiFlight also offers a $6.99 monthly option, while the $69.99 annual Founding Pilot membership stays active at that founding price as long as the subscription remains active.

Pricing referenced above is based on publicly listed U.S. individual pricing available in September 2026 and may change. See ForeFlight's current pricing and YetiFlight membership pricing for current details.

Who Is YetiFlight For?

• Student pilots who want an EFB that is also built around learning.
• Private pilots who want practical planning, charts, weather, documents, and aircraft tools in one place.
• Flight instructors who want training notes, syllabi, maneuver resources, and cockpit tools connected.
• VFR pilots who want serious capability without paying for features they may never use.
• Developing IFR pilots who want an app that can grow with their planning and training needs.
• Budget-conscious pilots who want to keep more money available for fuel, aircraft rental, instruction, and actual flying.

So, Is This the End of ForeFlight?

No single aviation app is going to be the perfect fit for every pilot. ForeFlight remains one of the best-known names in aviation software. But pilots now have another serious choice.

YetiFlight is built around the belief that a capable EFB should not have to become one of the most expensive recurring items in a pilot's flight bag. If your priorities are flight planning, charts, weather awareness, aircraft management, practical pilot tools, risk management, and training, YetiFlight gives you a new way to put those capabilities together while keeping the cost dramatically lower.

For many pilots, the better question may not be, “Can YetiFlight do everything every other EFB can do?” The better question is, “Does YetiFlight give me the tools and benefits I actually need for the flying I do—and does it do it for less?”

That is exactly what YetiFlight was built to answer.

YetiFlight Frequently Asked Questions

Is YetiFlight available now?

Yes. YetiFlight is now available for download on the Apple App Store for compatible iPhone and iPad devices.

How much does YetiFlight cost?

Founding Pilot membership is currently $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year. Founding pricing remains active as long as the subscription remains active.

Is YetiFlight a replacement for ForeFlight?

That depends on the pilot and the features needed. YetiFlight provides many of the core EFB capabilities general aviation pilots use—planning, charts, weather, terrain, aircraft tools, calculations, documents, training, and decision-support tools—at a much lower subscription price. The two products are not feature-for-feature identical.

Does YetiFlight include flight training?

Yes. Flight training is a major part of YetiFlight, including syllabus tools, lesson tracking, instructor notes, training resources, and maneuver-related material.

Can YetiFlight replace official aviation information?

No. YetiFlight is a supplemental flight-planning, training, and situational-awareness tool. Pilots remain responsible for verifying current official aviation information, approved aircraft documents, required weather and NOTAM information, and determining that each flight can be conducted safely and legally.

Availability and feature notice: Features, data sources, receiver compatibility, and subscription offerings can change as YetiFlight continues to be updated. Always verify the current app description and membership page for the latest supported capabilities.