This app honestly gives such a refreshing way to practice and nail procedure down. I do my flight schooling at a Class C airport in a military city, being good on comms is almost half as important as flying the plane with how busy it gets. From using this app I’ve made leaps and bounds and thanks to it I don’t have to worry nearly as much about comms.

As a pilot with multiple ratings, I do not recommend this app to anyone, especially student pilots. The app gives no instruction on how to say something, rather it expects you to already know it. If you are to correctly transmit, there is a likely chance that the AI can’t correctly interpret it, because the app does not have an effective speech recognition software, resulting in an “invalid response.” The AI does not provide the correct response if a mistake is made, rather it gets frustrated at you instead, then proceeds to tell you to “start with ___” on your next transmission even if you already have on the previous transmission, providing no feedback (so much for an app labeled “AI Pilot Training.” The app does not recognize that there are multiple ways to transmit information, like the fact that callsigns can be said in different ways. The app does not provide the correct airport name for some airports when selecting a local airport which can be detrimental for some student pilots unfamiliar with their local airport names. These are only some of the mass amount of defective features I have encountered during my use of this app. I am encouraging all pilots to look up ATC communication tutorials elsewhere and to practice with your CFI and to STAY AWAY from this app, it is not worth your time and money.

After reviewing this app, I would not recommend it to my students. It does not pick up well on the microphone, even when speaking clearly. It also does not give proper holding instructions. In a real life scenario, ATC would never tell me right turns or one minute legs when holding over a fix. Anyone who has passed their instrument check ride or is an instructor understands that right turns our standard and does not need to be said as well as one minute. Legs is also standard and does not need to be said. In a scenario where you are giving the direction of the turn, it would be only for left turns and anything outside of a one minute hold. However, the app told me “hold over the fix on the 104 radial right turns one minute expect for the clearance at 1328z.” When responding with a correct read back for holding over the fix on the 104 radial expect for their clearance at 1328z it said incorrect. This was me using a three day, free trial and on the app for only five minutes. I do not intend to try it out anymore. I have made up my mind.

Love the concept but the app needs better AI that can better handle and understand the natural shorthand pilot speech and all of its variations. If I don’t repeat everything exactly as it asks, it makes me repeat it over and over and over again, even though I’ve included all the required information in the way that my brain processes it. I also had my airline pilot friend try this app and he had the same issues. Still - a really great idea but it needs to let us speak more naturally.