PocketATC

Master in-flight radio. Without leaving the ground.

By letting you effortlessly navigate through recordings of actual interactions between air traffic controllers and pilots so that you’re exposed to a far richer range of situations than most pilots encounter during their own flying, PocketATC offers a faster, cheaper, and less intimidating way to master the seemingly foreign language of ATC terminology. Version 1 includes more than 400 conversations between GA, airline, and military pilots and air traffic controllers at nine airports (KADS, KATL, KBGR, KBOS, KDED, KFLL, KLAX, KMIA, and KSEA).


PocketATC offers three ways to study ATC conversations:


1. Structured Study
Work your way through all the conversations in the app, in order of difficulty. You’ll start with the slowest-paced conversations and move on to conversations with more background noise and faster speech as your proficiency grows. Conversations have been organized by radio frequency, and your progress is tracked as you go. Start again from scratch at any time by resetting your training record for the frequency whose conversations you wish to study again. As you study, you can view the transcript for each conversation one line at a time or view the entire conversation on the screen at once (tap a transmission to listen to it). Conversations have been split into individual transmissions so that you can focus on each line before moving on to the next one.


2. Random Practice
Create a pool of randomly ordered conversations to explore by choosing a particular frequency, flight type, airspace class, or airport. Or, draw conversations from the app’s entire library. As with structured study, you can view the transcript for each conversation one line at a time or view the entire conversation on the screen at once (tap a transmission to listen to it). 



3. Comprehension Quiz
Listen to a series of randomly selected transmissions and test your comprehension by filling in the missing words.