Freeze up on the radio?Practise on a controller who never gets impatient.
Talk to an AI air traffic controller out loud. Every readback is checked word-for-word against real FAA phraseology — not an AI’s opinion of whether you were close.
Make your first callFree account · no credit card · no headset · runs in your browser
Graded right — not guessed.
Most AI trainers ask a language model whether your readback sounded about right. That is an opinion. On a safety-critical readback, an opinion is not good enough.
Ten ways to get on the mic.
From an open, unscored conversation to a scored eight-call checkride — plus the reference library for when you just need to look something up.
Watch the roll become a takeoff.
Progress is drawn as a runway, because that is what it is. Clean-readback rate, sharpness, and the elements you keep dropping — all in one place.
See your whole class from one dashboard.
The Classroom dashboard is free for instructors — no per-seat cost, no quote, no sales call. Create a class, share your code, and see exactly where every student is struggling before their next lesson. Students who join on your code pay $6.99 / mo billed yearly instead of $12.99 / mo.
Start free. Upgrade when you’re hooked.
Free: 22 lessons — the first two of every phase of flight — plus the first call of every other one, on a free account. Pro: $12.99 / mo or $9.99 / mo billed yearly — all 201 lessons, AI grading on every call, the live AI controller, cross-country, checkride and weak-spot drills. The Classroom dashboard is free for instructors — lesson access is a separate Pro plan. There is no trial to cancel: the free tier is the trial.
Before you key the mic.
Every correct call is a fixed answer key written from the FAA Aeronautical Information Manual (Change 3, effective 9 July 2026) and the Pilot/Controller Glossary — never invented by the AI. Your grade is a deterministic, token-exact match against that key. You can switch to ICAO or Transport Canada phraseology in Settings.
Your call is sent securely to be transcribed and graded, then discarded — we never store recordings. Keeping recordings on your device to play back is opt-in, off by default, and you can delete them all in one tap.
No. Just your device’s microphone. ATCpal runs in your browser — there is nothing to download and no sim to set up.
Never. It gives you ground reps so your time in the air — and with your CFI — goes further. ATCpal is a training aid, not a certification.
Same goal — radio confidence. The difference is how you are graded: ATCpal pairs a talk-out-loud AI controller with deterministic, token-exact phraseology checking, so the pass or fail is reproducible rather than an AI’s judgement call.
Partly, and permanently. Twenty-two lessons are free on a free account — the first two of each phase of flight — plus the first call of every other lesson. No credit card. Pro is $12.99 / mo or $9.99 / mo billed yearly for all 201. Flight schools get a free classroom dashboard, and their students pay $6.99 / mo billed yearly.
Your first radio call shouldn’t be your first radio call.
Practise it here. Nail it there. Free to start, no credit card.
Make your first call
