Say it right before you say it for real.
Realistic ATC radio practice through your own headset. Automated speech recognition hears your call, a simulated controller answers in a synthetic voice, and fixed rules, not an AI model, check every element of your readback.
Start free, no card · laptop or desktop and a headset · a training aid, not approved training
One loop, every call.
The same loop as the aircraft, with a controller who waits for you and a check that never gets tired.
Speak
Hold the transmit key and say your call through your headset, the way you would in the aircraft.
Understand
Automated speech recognition turns your audio into text, and the engine reads the elements of your call from it.
Operate
Tune COM 1, read back, hold short, cross, change frequency. The controller and the airfield answer what you actually did.
Improve
Fixed rules mark every required element. The debrief shows what was missed and names what to practise next.
The radio works like the radio.
The instrument you tune and the check you get are the product itself, not pictures of it. Try the radio.
Tune it yourself
The flight deck's COM 1. Turn the knob to set STANDBY, then swap.
YR-DMK, contact Tower 118.205.
- Turn the inner knob (drag, scroll or arrow keys) until STANDBY reads 118.205.
- Press the swap key to make it ACTIVE.
Notice the knob skips 118.195: in 8.33 kHz spacing that is not a channel.
Every element, checked
Miss the hold short and it is marked not said, and the controller says it again.
Yankee romeo delta mike kilo, taxi via charlie, hold short of runway zero nine.
Taxi via charlie, Yankee Romeo Delta Mike Kilo.
Yankee romeo delta mike kilo, negative, i say again, taxi via charlie, hold short of runway zero nine.
Taxi via charlie, hold short of runway zero nine, Yankee Romeo Delta Mike Kilo.
A flight plan, lesson by lesson.
From the spelling alphabet to a cross-country: short drills, full phases of flight and Exam checkrides, in the order a pilot meets them. Each lesson says which readback elements it checks.
46 of 46 lessons live today. The rest are on the route, marked, and open the day the engine can check every readback in them.
- 9 of 9 live
Foundations
Callsigns, the spelling alphabet, numbers, key words and what you must always read back.
- 12 of 12 live
Controlled aerodrome
Ground and Tower at a controlled field: from the ATIS to vacating the runway.
- 3 of 3 live
AFIS and radio aerodromes
Strejnic- and Ilfoveni-type fields: information, not clearances. You decide and announce.
- 3 of 3 live
Uncontrolled aerodromes
No one on the ground: announce your position and intentions, and talk directly to other pilots.
- 5 of 5 live
CTR and TMA
Controlled airspace: the PPPIIR first call, entry, transit, restrictions and Special VFR.
- 3 of 3 live
Flight information
An information service: first contact, flight plans, position reports, requests and transfers.
- 2 of 2 live
International VFR
Crossing an FIR boundary: Bucharest Information to Budapest Information to Szeged.
- 3 of 3 live
Transponder, traffic and weather
Squawk instructions, traffic information, and keeping VMC.
- 5 of 5 live
Abnormal and emergency
Lost, MAYDAY, PAN PAN, lost communications and interception.
- 1 of 1 live
Capstone
The whole flight on the corpus's Strejnic-to-Cluj pattern: an AFIS departure, flight information en route, the arrival to a controlled field, landing and taxi in.
Frequencies, points and altitudes in lessons are training data, not for real-world navigation. Training only; not approved flight training.
Realistic where it counts.
Realism here means the parts of the radio a pilot actually gets wrong, rebuilt faithfully, and nothing pretending to be more than it is.
- Real radio operationLive
- COM 1 with ACTIVE and STANDBY, a concentric knob and the 8.33 kHz channel plan. You are on the frequency you set, not the one you meant.
- Aviation notationLive
- Frequencies, runways, routes and codes are shown the way they are written in aviation, in an instrument face: RWY 09, 121.905, F D A.
- A different exercise every timeLive
- Each lesson generates its exercise from a seed: another stand, another route, another runway in use. You practise the skill, not the answers.
- Rules you can inspectLive
- The checks are fixed rules traced to published EU rules of the air, and where an exercise is stricter than the rule it says so. That tracing is not yet independently reviewed.
- Multiple controller voicesIn development
- Today one qualified synthetic controller voice speaks every station. A roster of different synthetic controller voices is in development.
Your progress, drawn across the airfield.
Every check is kept as evidence. The debrief shows each element you got right or missed; your route, rank, weekly goal and skills are worked out from those records by fixed rules. Accuracy earns the XP, not speed.
Below is an example learner three weeks in: invented drills and sessions, drawn by the same components and rules the app uses on your own records.
Where am I?
Section 2 · Controlled aerodrome
- 2.1ATIS and departure clearance
- 2.2Radio check and start-up
- 2.3Taxi
Up next2.2.1
Radio check and start-up
3 min · Scenario
- QNH
- Callsign
Rank
Solo
Next: Cross-country
- A clean CTR exit (Tower departure, clean run), not yet
- Reliable on runway, squawk and frequency readbacks, not yet
A rank is progress in this trainer, never a licence or a rating.
This week
- Monday: trained
- Tuesday: no training
- Wednesday: no training
- Thursday (today): no training
- Friday: ahead
- Saturday: ahead
- Sunday: ahead
1 more training day meets your goal; 4 days left this week, today included.
What am I good at?
- SquawkPractising
- QNHPractising
- Level restrictionIntroduced
- Frequency changeIntroduced
- CallsignPractising
- ATIS informationIntroduced
For flight schools and ATOs.
Consistent, repeatable radio practice between lessons, with your own fleet as the callsigns and assessment an instructor can read. We are looking for a small number of schools to pilot it with.
- YR-ABCC172
- YR-ABDC172
- YR-PAXP28A
- Example registrations
Start free. Pay for the whole course.
Foundations and your first controlled-aerodrome unit are free, with no card. Pro opens every lesson; its price is still under test and always shown before you pay.
- Free€0no card needed
- Pro€30.00per month, price under test
- Flight SchoolTalk to usPriced per organisation
- Enterprise / ATOTalk to usPriced per organisation
Questions pilots ask first.
Is this approved flight training?
No. It is a practice tool for radio communication. It is not approved or certified by any aviation authority, it does not count towards a licence or rating, and it does not replace an instructor, an examiner or an approved training device.
Is an AI deciding whether I was right?
No. AI is used to recognise your speech and to voice the controller. Whether your readback is right is decided by fixed rules in the training engine, one required element at a time, the same way every time. You can see which element was checked and how.
What do I need?
A laptop or desktop with a recent browser, and a headset with a microphone. Voice training does not run on phones yet. A one-minute headset check runs before your first call.
Do you record my voice?
Your audio is streamed to a speech recognition service while you hold the key, so it can be turned into text. We do not keep a recording of your voice or the text of your calls. We keep the result of each check, so your debrief and progress work. The details are in AI and data processing.
What if it mishears me?
If the audio is unclear, nothing is counted against you and you are asked to say it again, as a controller would. Speech recognition can still mishear clear speech; when it does, the check is made on what it heard, and the radio log shows you that text.
Which phraseology does it use?
An ICAO-based European training convention, on a fictional practice airfield. The content has not yet been independently reviewed, and the exercises say so.
What does it cost?
Foundations and your first controlled-aerodrome unit are free, with no card. Pro opens the whole course for a monthly price that is still under test, shown before you pay; cancel any time. See pricing.
What flight schools say
Placeholder. This space holds quotes from instructors and students once flight schools have used the beta. There are none yet, so nothing here is a real quote.
- Quote placeholderInstructor at a flight school
- Quote placeholderStudent pilot, PPL course
- Quote placeholderHead of training, ATO