Sky DutyForeFlight Alternative for Flight Departments
ForeFlight is an excellent pilot EFB for flight planning, charts, and navigation. Sky Duty is a flight operations platform for managing your entire department. Many pilots use both.
If you need flight planning and charts, use ForeFlight. If you need to schedule your fleet, track maintenance, log flights, and manage expenses, use Sky Duty. They solve different problems and work well together.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Sky Duty | ForeFlight |
|---|---|---|
| Gantt Scheduling | ||
| Digital Logbook | ||
| Maintenance Tracking | ||
| Expense Tracking + Receipt Scanning | ||
| Custom Form Templates | ||
| Offline-First | Partial | |
| Charts and Navigation | ||
| Advanced Weather Layers | Basic | |
| Flight Planning | ||
| Fleet Management | ||
| Crew Roles and Permissions |
When to choose Sky Duty
- You manage a flight department with multiple aircraft
- You need scheduling, maintenance, and expense tracking in one app
- You want custom form templates for your specific workflows
- You need full offline capability, not just cached charts
When to choose ForeFlight
- Best-in-class IFR charts, approach plates, and weather layers
- Comprehensive flight planning and navigation tools
- Deep airline and professional pilot feature set
- Established user base in commercial and GA aviation
Use both
Many flight departments use ForeFlight for flight planning and charts alongside Sky Duty for scheduling, maintenance, expenses, and fleet management. The two apps solve different problems and work well together.
Why this comparison matters
Most pilots who research this comparison are already paying for ForeFlight in the cockpit and now need a way to run the rest of the department. A two-aircraft Part 91 operator picking ForeFlight expects charts, weather, and flight planning, and that is exactly what they get. What ForeFlight does not do is tell the chief pilot which tail is on which trip next Thursday, when the King Air is due for its 100-hour, or what the fuel receipts from last quarter add up to once they are sorted by aircraft and customer. That is where Sky Duty fits. The two apps live on the same iPad and answer different questions. ForeFlight answers what the flight looks like in the cockpit. Sky Duty answers what the operation looks like on the ground. A flight department running both keeps the EFB it already trusts for charts and adds scheduling, maintenance tracking, expense reporting, and crew assignment in one place instead of stitched-together spreadsheets and group texts. The result is a setup where the pilot still flies with ForeFlight in front of them, the chief pilot still sees the whole fleet at a glance, and nobody has to argue about which copy of the schedule is current on any given Monday morning. In practice, the first month after a department layers Sky Duty over an existing ForeFlight subscription is where the value shows up. The chief pilot stops re-typing trips that came in by phone into a shared calendar and out into a group text. The maintenance vendor stops getting screenshots of aircraft logs. The accountant stops chasing pilots for receipts after the trip is done. Those small frictions compound across a quarter, and removing them is what the second app on the iPad is paying for.
See what Sky Duty offers
Guides and tools
Frequently Asked Questions
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Is Sky Duty weather a replacement for a ForeFlight briefing?
Try Sky Duty alongside your current tools
See how Sky Duty complements your existing workflow. Available on the App Store.
