Sporty's Pilot Training

• Commercial Pilot Course — $299.00
• Flying With ForeFlight — $29.99
• Garmin G1000 Checkout — $99.99
• Instrument Rating Course — $299.00
• Multiengine Training Course — $129.00
• Pilot's Guide to Airspace — $39.00
• Real World Flight Review — $99.99
• Remote Pilot Test Prep — $19.99
• Sporty's Learn To Fly Course — $299.00
• VFR Communications — $49.99

Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.9 11006 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Great app! Got me flying confidently very quickly

   I just recently hired a CFI to get my flight time for my Private Pilot Certificate, and here is his advice as a pilot for 11 years: “Learning to fly a plane is 10% in the plane, and 90% in the classroom.” This app leads you through everything. Preflight, Engine Function, Flight Tools, Radio Communications, Takeoffs and Landings, Straight and Level, and Emergency Situations. The really fun part about learning on this app is that everything you learn is immediately applicable in your next flight lesson, whenever it may be. Being able to do ground school whenever is so convenient, and it isn’t like Duolingo where you get bored and don’t come back to it for a month. Once you start, you’re hooked (or at least that’s how it was for me). Also, for any that are worried about certain aspects of flying, i.e. Radio communication and dangerous weather, it has courses that go into that in further detail so that you can become a professional in those areas. ——————————————————————— Dear Sporty’s A great way to improve the Private Pilot lessons would be to include an option for the student to choose either Diamond, Cirrus, or Cessna before the videos that entail the startup of the aircraft and flight tool configuration. This would help with giving students more confidence and reduce the lost feeling that some get when they get in a cockpit that isn’t a Cessna like in the videos. Hope that all makes sense, thanks.

   BenCutler · 30 Aug 2026

2. 3/5Video downloading is an exercise in frustration, hosed my iCloud backups

   For whatever reason the developers of this app store any videos downloaded for offline use in the app’s “documents” directory, meaning that they’ll be automatically be backed up to iCloud as part of iOS’s iCloud backup feature. This is not only a waste of iCloud storage space (I can download the videos again via the app if necessary), but in my case it prevented iOS from backing up altogether as uploading 6GB of instrument training videos over my slow DSL connection would take an eternity. I’m very lucky that nothing happened to my iPad in the weeks between downloading the videos and iOS notifying me of the lack of completed backups, as it very likely would have resulted in losing important data. Additionally, the offline download functionality is poorly implemented. Want to download all videos in a given section? The app will begin downloading all videos at once, leading to it taking an eternity for even a single video to complete. What’s more, if you switch away from the app for more than a moment or two, the video downloads are interrupted and you’ll need to manually start them again. And start again they will. Even if the video was 90% downloaded, an interrupted download will start over from scratch. This means that on all but the fastest connections you’re forced to sit and keep your device awake to let the download complete, lest you be forced to start the download over again.

   bdashnz · 30 Aug 2026

3. 5/5Amazing training! Do not buy from app store.

   I bought this to supplement a cheaper PPL ground school that I went thru before I knew anything about aviation. I wish I would have started with Sporty’s. The training is so well done and easy to understand. However I would recommend going directly to their website to buy the courses instead of using the Apple in app purchase. I ran into an issue where progress would not sync to their server and ended up losing many hours of work because I didn’t have a sporty’s account logged in at the time of the in app purchase. It was frustrating and customer service had to help resolve. I don’t think it would have happened if I had just bought it directly from their web portal. They really need to fix their app to handle this situation its a big hole in the system and I’m sure I’m not the only one who fell in it.

   AndrewJP80 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Best you can get

   By far the best study app you can use. I studied with it for two months straight and was able to pass my private pilot written exam with a 90%. Practice questions are in a similar layout with some questions very similar to the exam. If you pass the practice exam on here with over an 80% you’re guaranteed to pass the exam. The studying resources the app off is second to none. I will have to say…I do wish the app video segment would go in order instead of jumping around, circling back around in later segments. Example weather will be discussed in multiple chapters making it hard to take notes, that’s the only shortfall. Overall, this WILL make you pass your exam if you’re consistently getting over 80%.

   Shaun7689 · 30 Aug 2026

5. 2/5Glitchy - curriculum didn’t prepare me for the test.

   I have found several glitches throughout the app including frozen loading screens. One of my study sessions froze resulting in a 73 because I couldn’t finish answering the questions and was forced to grade the session. Now I can’t delete that session that glitched because although the feature to delete is there…it doesn’t work. There are a few question in the library very poorly worded. I accidentally did the sport pilot course first and lost many hours of work toward my PPL. Switching courses in the app is super confusing. The only reason I knew I did was because my CFI caught the mistake when he checked on my progress. My much bigger problem is the teaching method. I spent hours watching videos and taking quizzes that did not prepare me at all for the endorsement tests at the end. Ultimately I had to practice sessions that I failed over and over until by sheer volume of failure I began getting questions right. I am a professional with a degree and advanced training in other fields and have never seen a process as convoluted as this. All of this would be fine if this service was free. It is not. This is an expensive course that does not teach you what you need to be a successful pilot and successful student. I’m not sure how this course is so highly rated. I will pass my test but it will not be because this course was so dynamite. It will be because I put in many many hours on my own getting ready for my test. Disappointed. Very.

   P-tee · 30 Aug 2026

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