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Sound like a pilot before you key the mic.
Daily reps for everything that fades between flights: radio phraseology, weather, regulations, symbology. Built for the checkride, and for staying sharp long after it.
Think Duolingo, for pilots. Streaks, games, and five-minute sessions that actually stick.
iPhone · Free to start, no account required · 7-day premium trial
Five minutes a day · Streak, XP, mastery radar
Built by an instrument-rated pilot working toward commercial, who got tired of watching the knowledge fade between flights.
Inside the app
Built for the left seat.
Version 1.3. Streak and XP up top, a knowledge radar that shows what's slipping, and the radio simulator one tab away.
The radio simulator
Practice the radio without the $200/hr meter running.
195 ATC radio scenarios across 13 tracks. You get a brief, you hear the controller, you key up and speak your readback, and it's graded against real-world standards. It's pilot radio practice you can do on the couch.
Correct
Hold short and call sign both read back in full.
Real controller voices
Scenarios play as audio, at the pace a real controller speaks, not text on a screen.
Airport diagrams on the ground
See your position, your taxi route, and exactly where to hold short before you answer.
Graded like a controller would
Proper phraseology variations are accepted. Missing a hold-short readback is not.
Taxi to emergencies
Clearance delivery, departures, enroute, approaches, go-arounds, and the calls you hope you never make.
Everything else
A daily habit, not a cram session.
Short enough to finish on a coffee break. Structured so the things you learned for the written, regulations, weather, sectional symbols, don't quietly disappear.
Daily quizzes
Checkride-prep questions tuned to your track, VFR or IFR, with explanations that cite the FAR/AIM rather than just marking you wrong.
Symbology & weather games
Sectional chart symbols and METAR decoding are pure pattern recognition. Games beat flashcards for both.
Your materials, your quizzes
Upload a POH, a school SOP, or any study guide and Abeam turns it into questions you can drill.
Streaks & mastery tracking
See what's solid and what's slipping, topic by topic, so review time goes where it actually helps.
Who it's for
Two kinds of pilots use Abeam.
Working toward a rating
You have a checkride coming.
The radio is the part most student pilots dread, and the oral covers more than anyone can hold at once. Abeam turns checkride prep into daily reps you can actually keep up with, so you walk in having already said the words out loud a hundred times.
Already certificated
You passed. Then the forgetting started.
Nobody warns you how fast it goes when you're flying twice a month. Abeam is the structure for staying current between flights, so your next flight review, IPC, or unfamiliar towered field isn't a scramble.
Pricing
Less than five minutes of Hobbs time.
Start free. Premium unlocks the full radio simulator and unlimited quiz generation.
Free
$0
No card required
- Daily quizzes
- Games and weather practice
- A sample of the radio simulator
- Streaks and progress
Premium · 7-day free trial
$14.99 / month
or $119.99 / year
- All 195 radio scenarios, all 13 tracks
- Unlimited quizzes from your own documents
- Full mastery tracking and analytics
- Every future track as it ships
FAQ
Questions pilots ask.
What is Abeam?
Abeam is a daily training app for pilots: think Duolingo, but for aviation. It combines an ATC radio simulator with 195 graded scenarios, daily quizzes tuned to your rating track, sectional symbology and METAR decoding games, and streaks that keep you studying a few minutes every day. It's on the App Store for iPhone.
Is Abeam like Duolingo for pilots?
That's the idea. Short daily sessions, streaks, games, and mastery tracking. It's the habit mechanics of a language app applied to aviation knowledge: radio phraseology, regulations, weather, and chart symbology.
Does it help with checkride prep?
Yes. Daily quizzes cover the knowledge areas of the oral with FAR/AIM-cited explanations, and the radio simulator lets you practice every call out loud before the checkride, from taxi with hold-shorts to IFR clearances and emergencies.
I'm already certificated. Why would I use it?
Because the forgetting starts right after the checkride. A few minutes a day keeps regulations, weather, and radio phraseology sharp between flights, so your next flight review (BFR), IPC, or unfamiliar towered airport isn't a scramble. That's the situation Abeam was built for.
How does the radio simulator grade me?
You hear the controller with a realistic voice, press push-to-talk, and speak your readback. Abeam grades it against real-world standards, accepting proper phraseology variations the way an actual controller would, and flagging what a controller would make you say again.
Is it a substitute for a CFI?
No. Abeam is a study aid. It makes the knowledge stick between lessons and between flights, but it's not flight instruction and not a source of official aeronautical information. Your CFI and current FAA publications always win.
Cleared for takeoff.
Abeam is live on the App Store. Free to start, no account required. Premium unlocks everything with a 7-day free trial.
iPhone · $14.99/month or $119.99/year after the trial · cancel anytime