PlaneEnglish: ARSim

Please, check the ICAO lessons. There are a lot of mistakes with ICAO.

It’s absolutely wonderful, it has taught me how to talk to ATC fluently, it teaches VFR, IFR, holding patters, and many more things. The app does require a free trial which is why I’m a bit disappointed but they do give a free 3 day trial which I think is fantastic for new users to understand how the app works. Overall it’s fantastic.(sometimes there’s errors with the voice recognition and mic so I think that could be worked on)

This is a big help for me on my PPL journey. One weird thing: sometimes my callsign gets replaced with ARC. Not sure why but it’s only for some prompts. I have yet to find a pattern to this behavior. It’s by no means a dealbreaker, just annoying.

Unique !!! App I love it but doesn’t work as is supposed to, even when you say all words in the correct place time and pronunciation the app just don’t get it which is really frustrating please check that out

So when you pay for a subscription it says you get access to 500 plus airports but when i go into xc flight etc i get the option to choose from like maybe 10? So im giving this a 4 till i figure out what is going on. Other than that, pretty good app so far

I tried the app and thought it was subpar. It doesn’t really give you a great practice baseline with how you're supposed to talk to ATC. And some of jargon you wouldn’t even use in reality. There are better programs and when I tried requesting a refund, the app developer straight up complained to Apple about it and I couldn’t get my money back. If that doesn’t scream customer desperation I don’t know what does. There’s plenty of radio coms training you can learn for free on YouTube. Don’t waste your money on this worthless product.

At first I thought it was having issues with my accent, but it wasn’t. There needs to be a better way of indicating a step is done, something more obvious than the next arrow being enabled. It took me doing a slip of tongue before noticing it won’t let you advance without finishing first. Please look into an app, like DuoLingo for inspiration. On the plus side, having to say things out loud took the fright I had initially. I feel more confident now. The app is kinda expensive though. It feels like the developer concluded student pilots must love expensive stuff.

I tried this app for a month (VFR). I’m a rusty private pilot and want to get my skills sharp again, including my radio work. While this app does a great job of instilling the basics of proper phraseology (and even pronunciation in some cases), I found the various chapters and topic sub-groupings confusing, and the user interface with the mic and other buttons at the bottom of the practice screen a bit perplexing at first. Some trial and error and a YouTube video or two got me sorted, but I didn’t find it especially intuitive. For instance, I assumed the mic button was a press-and-hold to talk button, but is instead a TAP-to-record button (no need to hold it down when speaking as in the real airplane). Also, the accuracy grade bar that illuminates in different colors from red to green appeared at first to be a kind of equalizer, presumably measuring my volume and cadence, not reflecting a score of some kind. Again, this was figured out after a few minutes, but a simple numerical score might be an improvement. Lastly, in what I hope is being taken as constructive critique, please get rid of the synthesized ATC responses. They’re terrible, akin to what I remember from twenty years ago using the Comm1 Radio Simulator software on my PC. Some real human voices recorded speaking the responses over a scratchy VHF radio would level-up the realism and the fun of learning the back-and-forth between pilot and controller. Also, for student pilots, it wouldn’t be so starkly different from what they’ll hear in their headset during real flights in the system. I know nothing about app development, but since all the app’s scenarios are scripted, it would seem to be only a matter of getting some controllers (or just some voice actors) to pre-record all the various ATC responses, preferably over an actual radio. All that said, I’m still giving this app an enthusiastic 4 stars for its thorough coverage of the myriad concepts involved, the fact that it offers both VFR and IFR comms simulation, is reasonably priced, and conveniently usable on phone, tablet, and desktop devices.

Wish I knew about his when I was starting off. Follows a organized learning process from start to beginning and the microphone recording has some bugs but overall amazing app for learning.

This app is great for learning and pronouncing radio calls. The developers did great by allowing for multiple different teaching styles so that people can use it the way that helps them the best. Overall five stars, use it everyday!