Kneeboard Pro and Open In
From a briefing, Open In lets you send the trip into other tools. One of those options is Kneeboard Pro, which opens with your route and times already filled in.
What Open In does
On the briefing screen, the Open In button (Share icon) opens a menu of external tools. The menu is available on every plan: Free, Casual, Pro, Pro Plus, and Enterprise. There is no separate upgrade gate for these links.
- ForeFlight (iPhone and iPad only): opens a ForeFlight route deep link when the trip has an origin or destination. This option is hidden on desktop and Android browsers.
- Kneeboard Pro: opens Kneeboard Pro with the trip encoded in the link when both origin and destination are set.
- Aviation Weather: opens the Aviation Weather GFA flight-path view for the route.
- Export PDF: builds a PDF of the briefing. Shown when you are viewing your own briefing, not a shared view.
Open a briefing in Kneeboard Pro
- 1Open a trip briefing in PlaneWX (web, desktop browser, or the iOS app shell).
- 2In the briefing toolbar, tap or click Open In (on small screens the button label is Open).
- 3Choose Kneeboard Pro from the menu.
- 4PlaneWX opens Kneeboard Pro in a new browser tab with your trip pre-filled from the share link.
Kneeboard Pro must see both an origin and a destination. If either is missing, the Kneeboard Pro row does not appear in the menu.
What gets sent to Kneeboard Pro
PlaneWX builds an HTTPS link to Kneeboard Pro (kneeboardpro.imctvmedia.com) with a ?trip= parameter. That parameter carries a small JSON plan for Kneeboard Pro to read on load. Typical fields include:
- Departure and arrival airports
- Intermediate route or waypoints, when the trip has them
- Date, departure time, and arrival time when available
- Cruise altitude and flight rules (VFR or IFR), when set
- Aircraft tail number, when set
This is a normal web link, not a custom app URL scheme. On every platform PlaneWX opens it in a new browser tab (or the system browser from the iOS app shell). PlaneWX does not check whether a native Kneeboard Pro app is installed.
Which plans include it
Open In and Kneeboard Pro are available on Free, Casual, Pro, Pro Plus, and Enterprise. The menu is not limited by subscription tier.
If Kneeboard Pro does not open
- Confirm the trip has both an origin and a destination. Without both, Kneeboard Pro is not listed.
- Allow pop-ups for PlaneWX. The link opens in a new tab; a blocked pop-up looks like nothing happened.
- Try again from Safari or Chrome with an active network connection. The destination is an HTTPS site, so it needs the internet.
- If a blank Kneeboard Pro page loads, refresh that tab or open the same link again from Open In. Kneeboard Pro reads the trip from the URL when the page loads.
Still need help? Email support@planewx.com.