Your companion on the way to becoming a pilot: Pass your PPL theory and radio exams. Go from first lesson to pilot. Keep your pilot skills sharp. Practise your weak subjects. Refresh what you have forgotten. Learn together with other pilots. Look up aviation knowledge. Find flight schools and instructors. Explore aircraft and aerodromes

From your first lesson to your licence and long after it: exam questions, radio practice with an AI controller, courses, other pilots to learn with and aviation knowledge to look up.

A free week with most features, then a free account. No card needed.

  • 288 pilots practised this week
  • 3,000+ practice questions
  • ECQB-PPL release 26.2
  • Questions in 10+ languages
  • Runs in your browser, no installation · Get the Android app

Pick your licence

What LearnATC covers for it and where the questions come from.

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Pilot licence

Private Pilot Licence for aeroplanes

The theory exam for the private pilot licence on aeroplanes.

Where the questions come from

ECQB-PPL questions, licensed from Aircademy

ECQB-PPL release 26.2

All nine exam subjects

Air LawHuman Performance and LimitationsMeteorologyCommunicationsPrinciples of FlightOperational ProceduresFlight Performance and PlanningAircraft General KnowledgeNavigation

How you practise

  • An explanation after every answer
  • Mock exams graded like the real exam
  • The questions you keep missing, collected for you
  • Questions in 10+ languages
Start with PPL(A)
In the app: a licence and its subjects

Five stages, one platform

The order most student pilots follow, with the screen you use at every stage.

Start with a plan

Your start page shows what you have done and what comes next. Roger, your coach, plans short learning bites around your time and what you find hard.

  • Progress per subject
  • A learning calendar
  • Learning bites planned by Roger

Learn the theory

Written VFR and IFR radio courses with a short animated video for every lesson, and video courses on Aviation for beginners, Soaring and the Cessna 172.

  • VFR and IFR radio courses
  • A short video for every lesson
  • Three video courses

Practise the exam questions

The ECQB-PPL bank for PPL(A), PPL(H), SPL and BPL, licensed from Aircademy, and the BZF and AZF catalogues. Every question explains why the right answer is right.

  • 3,000+ practice questions
  • An explanation after every answer
  • Questions in the language you pick

Talk to ATC before you fly

Pick a real airport and talk through a flight from start-up to landing. An AI controller answers by voice, flags wrong calls and gives you a debrief. Scenarios and five short radio trainers fill the gaps.

  • Real airports
  • An AI controller who answers by voice
  • Listening, ICAO alphabet, METAR and NOTAM drills

Sit mock exams

Mock exams from the exam questions, graded like the real exam. The questions you keep missing wait in one list, and your progress shows where you stand in every subject.

  • Graded like the real exam
  • Your result per subject
  • Missed questions collected for you
Start free

A free week with most features, then a free account. No card needed.

Try it here

Three questions as the app asks them: a readback, a METAR and a transponder code. No account needed.

  • The question card you practise with in the app
  • An explanation after every answer
  • 3,000+ more questions once you sign up
Start free

A free week with most features, then a free account. No card needed.

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ATC

D-EABC, squawk 7000.

The controller gives you a squawk code. What do you say back?

1Roger, D-EABC.
2Squawk 7000, D-EABC.
3Wilco.

More than the exam

LearnATC stays useful after the licence: keep practising, look things up and stay in touch with other pilots.

Keep your skills sharp

Short radio drills and whole flights in the simulator, for pilots who fly less often than they would like.

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Practise your weak subjects

The questions you keep missing are collected per subject, so you practise exactly those.

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Refresh what you have forgotten

Search the glossary for any aviation term and get a short, clear explanation.

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A library of aviation knowledge

The wiki, blog articles and explainer videos: dense, sorted by topic and open to everyone.

Take a look

Learn with other pilots

Chat with other student pilots, ask questions and help each other.

Take a look

Flight schools, aircraft and aerodromes

Find flight schools and instructors, and look up aircraft types and aerodromes with their frequencies and weather.

Take a look

Keep your skills sharp

Short radio drills and whole flights in the simulator, for pilots who fly less often than they would like.

Take a look

Practise your weak subjects

The questions you keep missing are collected per subject, so you practise exactly those.

Take a look

Refresh what you have forgotten

Search the glossary for any aviation term and get a short, clear explanation.

Take a look

A library of aviation knowledge

The wiki, blog articles and explainer videos: dense, sorted by topic and open to everyone.

Take a look

Learn with other pilots

Chat with other student pilots, ask questions and help each other.

Take a look

Flight schools, aircraft and aerodromes

Find flight schools and instructors, and look up aircraft types and aerodromes with their frequencies and weather.

Take a look

Everything in one account

Every part of LearnATC. Open one to read more about it.

Start free

A free week with most features, then a free account. No card needed.

Licensed questions, regular updates, people you can reach

This week on LearnATC

288
Pilots practised
7,890
Questions answered
1,272
Radio calls in the simulator
16
Flight schools on LearnATC

Question banks

  • ECQB-PPL questions, licensed from Aircademy ECQB-PPL release 26.2
  • BZF and AZF: the official catalogue of the German Federal Network Agency
3,000+
Practice questions
2,500+
Exam questions
10+
Question languages

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Hosting and privacy

  • Hosted in the EU
  • GDPR-compliant
  • No credit card to start
  • Runs in the browser
  • Android app

Who builds LearnATC

Fabian Wagner

Fabian Wagner

Sailplane student pilot

Blax Software · Upper Austria
Tobias Rösner

Tobias Rösner

Digital Business Expert

Clesk Digital · Siegen, Germany

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