Wish it had Australian radio calls
Seems like there have been a lot of improvements since last time I used it and I am enjoying it. I wish it could add an Australian version as the calls are a little different but it is still helping me a lot understand radio chat
Good app
I found it helpful to practice say ATC instructions and I am pleased with the Readback IFR clearance lesson.
Amazing
Awesome tool
Very useful but poorly designed
This has been a great help in my flight training. The scenarios are good, having my N number as a custom field and even my local airport, are great. The speech reco is really bad however. The rest of the app is also a bit of a mess. Would be better if more attention was paid to thr central features of the app. Also more of a guided progression.
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Voice Recognition Horrible
This is a decent app/program lots of potential. I’m a former flight instructor getting current again. The AI voices are horrendous. In 2025 there are far better ways to go about this. The worst part of the experience is the horrible voice recognition. Regardless of the microphone, headset, input device I used, the program refuses to pick up all the words. Not always the same words every time, just misses words completely. I’ll listen to the readback, and can clearly hear that it’s correct, but the program will not recognize them. I would say only about 5% of the time do I get 100% recognition. Another thing, even though there are technically specific ways to go about communications in aviation, if you’re just starting out and using this to learn communications, what you will hear in the real world is quite different. Especially with tower airports, controllers, want short and concise read backs.
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Response from developer
Sorry to hear of your experience Mklein73. We recommend exploring the Settings options for the alternate speech recognition engines available (Fast and High Performance) as well as the voices (you can always download new ones following the instructions in ARSim). The training content in ARSim is based on the FAA and ICAO guidelines for aviation phraseology from the AIM and JO7110, so while you may hear variations while flying the guidelines is what you will find in ARSim. Thanks and reach out for any issues: service@planeenglish.net and our team will readily assist.
