Studying for a checkride — or trying not to forget everything you learned for the last one? Abeam turns aviation knowledge into a daily habit: five-minute sessions for student pilots working toward a rating, and for certificated pilots staying sharp between flights.
Abeam is built for pilots — in training and staying current. Your next flight review, IPC, or unfamiliar towered field shouldn't be a scramble. Short, focused quizzes you can finish on a coffee break. Streaks that keep you flying through your study material. Games that make the hardest topics stick. And a realistic ATC radio simulator that lets you practice readbacks before you ever key the mic.
A RADIO SIMULATOR THAT ACTUALLY TRAINS YOU
195 scenarios across 13 tracks — taxi clearances with hold-shorts and runway crossings, IFR clearance delivery, departures, enroute, approaches, go-arounds, and emergencies. Every scenario starts with a situation brief and, on the ground, an airport diagram showing your position, your taxi route, and exactly where to hold short. Listen to AI-generated ATC with realistic controller voices, key up, speak your readback, and get graded against real-world standards — the grading accepts proper phraseology variations the way a real controller would. Pass a level's scenarios to unlock the next difficulty, all the way to checkride-strict.
DAILY QUIZZES TAILORED TO YOUR RATING
Choose your track — VFR, IFR, Commercial, or CFI — and get questions calibrated to where you are in your training. Questions are grounded in FAR/AIM regulations and aeronautical references, with citations for every explanation.
GAMES THAT TEACH
Symbology: airport signs, runway markings, light gun signals, and VFR/IFR chart symbols — untimed visual recall with instant feedback, and IFR chart content that appears when your training calls for it. Weather Decoder for METAR/TAF practice. Phonetic Sprint for alphabet speed. The kind of practice that's painful with flashcards becomes addictive in short game loops.
AI-POWERED CUSTOM QUIZZES
Upload your study materials — manuals, study guides, FAR/AIM excerpts — and Abeam generates personalized quiz questions from them. Your study material becomes your test prep.
STREAKS AND PROGRESS
Build a daily study habit with calendar-day streaks, XP, and progress tracking that shows which topics you've mastered and where you need more reps.
BUILT BY A PILOT, FOR PILOTS
Created by an instrument-rated pilot working toward commercial. Abeam is a study companion, not a replacement for your CFI or formal flight training — but the daily reps make checkride prep feel like maintenance instead of a sprint.
About the name: in aviation, "abeam the numbers" is the moment on downwind when you commit to landing — flaps down, descent begun, eyes on the threshold. The moment when training meets action. Abeam is named for that moment. Practice every day so when yours comes, you're ready.
Try Abeam Premium free for 7 days. After that, $14.99/month or $119.99/year unlocks the full radio simulator, unlimited AI-generated quizzes from your documents, mastery tracking, and full analytics.
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This app has been such a lifesaver while traveling! I’ve been using it for a while now, especially between flights, and it gives me so much peace of mind. It’s amazing how easy it is to forget little details when you’re constantly on the go. I honestly don’t know how I traveled without it before! Absolutely love this app—thank you so much! ✈️❤️
Developer Response
Love hearing Abeam rides along between flights. Short sessions on the go are exactly what we built it for. Keep that streak alive, and if there's a topic you'd like us to add, email support@flyabeam.com. Blue skies!
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Captain Now
Wow. Very useful tool. This has helped me reached a peace of mind while flying. I have been using it for some time now, and it’s amazing how one starts forgetting things and the app keeps me in line. Awesome app!
Developer Response
Thanks for flying with Abeam! Keeping knowledge sharp between checkrides is the whole mission, and we're glad it's keeping you in line. More content is on the way, so tell us what you'd like next at support@flyabeam.com. Fly safe!
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Sand.shot
It’s not an app it’s a subscription service. First the app requires about 50 different questions just to get in the app . Absolutely annoying The atc is complete a robot a standard web browser has better voice than this. The art graphics are rushed and basic. All the words and text boxes are clearly ai written , poor quality control means the text boxes are often too small or you have sentences that continue with “….”
Developer Response
Thank you for taking the time to write this. You’re right on several points. Some were already on our list, and your review moved them to the top.If you’re open to it, I’d love to hear more. Email support@flyabeam.com and it comes straight to me. Our goal is an app every pilot finds useful, and honest feedback like yours is how we get there.
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Seller
JORGE LUIS RUIZ-ORTIZ
Size
36.1 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
