New in 10.2: Home Screen widgets and quick actions — resume your last video, start a study session, or open this month's PilotWorkshops's Mastery VFR scenario in one tap.
Sporty’s innovative Pilot Training app brings a variety of aviation training courses to one location, allowing you to access all of your Sporty's aviation content from your iPad, iPhone or AppleTV.
It’s free to get started - including interactive free FAA handbooks, free FAR/AIM, FAA practice tests and HD/4K training videos.
SPORTY’S 2026 LEARN TO FLY COURSE
For the cost of a single flight lesson, Sporty’s Learn to Fly course will save you time and money earning your pilot certificate. This is not a weekend “cram course” or a boring ground school lecture on video. It is a comprehensive flight-training companion designed to make your lessons more efficient, more complete and more fun. There is nothing extra to buy—just add flight instructor!
INCLUDES: 20 hours of HD video training with search, knowledge test prep, interactive flight maneuvers guide, video-referenced Airman Certification Standards (ACS), Flight Training Syllabus, Ask a CFI service.
After successful course completion, you’ll earn an FAA knowledge test endorsement and FAA WINGS credit.
SPORTY’S 2026 INSTRUMENT RATING COURSE
With Sporty’s Complete Instrument Rating Course, you’ll ace your FAA written test—we guarantee it! But this app is much more than just test prep. With incredible in-flight footage and 3D animations, we unlock the secrets of the IFR system so you can be a safe, smooth and proficient pilot. Detailed video segments cover both glass cockpits and analog gauges.
INCLUDES: 13 hours of video training, knowledge test prep, interactive instrument maneuvers guide, video-referenced Airman Certification Standards (ACS), Flight Training Syllabus, Ask a CFI service.
AVIATION COURSE LIBRARY
2026 Learn to Fly/Private and Sport Pilot Training Course
2026 Instrument Rating Course
2026 Commercial Pilot Test Prep Course
Aviation Weather
Multiengine Training Course
Tailwheel Checkout Course with Patty Wagstaff
Seaplane Rating Course with Patty Wagstaff
ForeFlight Power Users Training
Flight Review
Instrument Proficiency Check (IPC)
Takeoffs and Landings
VFR Communications
IFR Communications
Pilot's Guide to Airspace
Basic Aerobatics with Patty Wagstaff
Garmin G1000 Checkout Course
Garmin G5000 Training Course
Garmin GTN 650/750 Essentials
Garmin Aviation Weather Radar
Garmin TXi Essentials
Garmin GFC500 Autopilot Essentials
Garmin G3X Touch Certified Essentials
Flying the Aspen Evolution
So You Want to Fly Twins
So You Want to Fly Gliders
Flight Instructor Course
Remote Pilot Test Prep
Complete PilotWorkshops library
I just recently hired a CFI to get my flight time for my Private Pilot Certificate, and here is his advice as a pilot for 11 years: “Learning to fly a plane is 10% in the plane, and 90% in the classroom.” This app leads you through everything. Preflight, Engine Function, Flight Tools, Radio Communications, Takeoffs and Landings, Straight and Level, and Emergency Situations. The really fun part about learning on this app is that everything you learn is immediately applicable in your next flight lesson, whenever it may be. Being able to do ground school whenever is so convenient, and it isn’t like Duolingo where you get bored and don’t come back to it for a month. Once you start, you’re hooked (or at least that’s how it was for me). Also, for any that are worried about certain aspects of flying, i.e. Radio communication and dangerous weather, it has courses that go into that in further detail so that you can become a professional in those areas.———————————————————————Dear Sporty’sA great way to improve the Private Pilot lessons would be to include an option for the student to choose either Diamond, Cirrus, or Cessna before the videos that entail the startup of the aircraft and flight tool configuration. This would help with giving students more confidence and reduce the lost feeling that some get when they get in a cockpit that isn’t a Cessna like in the videos. Hope that all makes sense, thanks.
Video downloading is an exercise in frustration, hosed my iCloud backups
bdashnz
For whatever reason the developers of this app store any videos downloaded for offline use in the app’s “documents” directory, meaning that they’ll be automatically be backed up to iCloud as part of iOS’s iCloud backup feature. This is not only a waste of iCloud storage space (I can download the videos again via the app if necessary), but in my case it prevented iOS from backing up altogether as uploading 6GB of instrument training videos over my slow DSL connection would take an eternity. I’m very lucky that nothing happened to my iPad in the weeks between downloading the videos and iOS notifying me of the lack of completed backups, as it very likely would have resulted in losing important data.Additionally, the offline download functionality is poorly implemented. Want to download all videos in a given section? The app will begin downloading all videos at once, leading to it taking an eternity for even a single video to complete. What’s more, if you switch away from the app for more than a moment or two, the video downloads are interrupted and you’ll need to manually start them again. And start again they will. Even if the video was 90% downloaded, an interrupted download will start over from scratch. This means that on all but the fastest connections you’re forced to sit and keep your device awake to let the download complete, lest you be forced to start the download over again.
Developer Response
Thanks for your feedback. We have now changed the offline storage behavior so saved videos are no longer included with the iCloud backup. We also plan to implement a more robust download manager in a future release.
Amazing training! Do not buy from app store.
AndrewJP80
I bought this to supplement a cheaper PPL ground school that I went thru before I knew anything about aviation. I wish I would have started with Sporty’s. The training is so well done and easy to understand. However I would recommend going directly to their website to buy the courses instead of using the Apple in app purchase. I ran into an issue where progress would not sync to their server and ended up losing many hours of work because I didn’t have a sporty’s account logged in at the time of the in app purchase. It was frustrating and customer service had to help resolve. I don’t think it would have happened if I had just bought it directly from their web portal. They really need to fix their app to handle this situation its a big hole in the system and I’m sure I’m not the only one who fell in it.
Best you can get
Shaun7689
By far the best study app you can use. I studied with it for two months straight and was able to pass my private pilot written exam with a 90%. Practice questions are in a similar layout with some questions very similar to the exam. If you pass the practice exam on here with over an 80% you’re guaranteed to pass the exam. The studying resources the app off is second to none. I will have to say…I do wish the app video segment would go in order instead of jumping around, circling back around in later segments. Example weather will be discussed in multiple chapters making it hard to take notes, that’s the only shortfall. Overall, this WILL make you pass your exam if you’re consistently getting over 80%.
• New ForeFlight Power Users lesson — "Feature Focus: Map Annotations 2.0"
• Faster eBook search — find titles instantly by name or keyword right from the eBooks tab
• Performance improvements and bug fixes
Version 10.2.1
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