Use Before Flight vs ALPA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Use Before Flight
This app offers interactive pilot training for professional pilots, focusing on ECAM handling and emergency scenarios for Airbus aircraft. Prepare for simulator checks and enhance system knowledge with hundreds of drills, videos, and documents, available offline.
- Interactive ECAM handling drills
- Simulated glass cockpit screens
- Over 250 abnormal/emergency scenarios
- Offline use for all drills
- Cross-referenced content (blogs, videos)
- Intuitive multi-functional menu
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THE AWARD-WINNING APP FOR PROFESSIONAL PILOTS Use Before Flight is the essential training app for the professional pilot, helping you prepare quicker and better for your sim check with interactive, immersive training, anywhere and at any time. **SUBSCRIPTION TO USE BEFORE FLIGHT REQUIRED** AVAILABLE FOR A320 & A330 AIRCRAFT ECAM handling and -discipline is key to operating Airbus aircraft. It is crucial, not only in real life, but also at least twice a year when the next simulator check is approaching. All Airbus pilots have experienced this: being in the flight simulator for a check is not the right time to start practicing ECAM handling, quite the contrary. You are expected to know what you are doing, and getting confused can really spoil the day. During line flying and daily operations, however, luckily failures and malfunctions are rare, so proper preparation with just the manuals can be challenging. This is where Use Before Flight steps in. Prepare yourself without the pressure of a simulator detail, wherever you are in your own time. Don’t let those unexpected ECAM lines surprise you! Being prepared will take the stress away and free up capacity you can spend on flying the aircraft and proper decision making. Albeit being the most confusing, it is not just the ECAM handling that matters. Training with literally hundreds of drills, supported by videos, blog posts and documents, will greatly improve not just your system knowledge, but expand your overall abilities as an Airbus pilot! Key features: - Visualise and interact with immersive scenarios with all glass cockpit screens fully simulated - Find content quickly and easily through an intuitive multi-functional menu system - Practice over 250 interactive abnormal and emergency scenarios anywhere and at any time - all drills embedded for instant offline use - Enhance your training experience further with our unique iconic guidance and by discovering fully cross-referenced related content, such as blogs, videos documents & case studies
ALPA
This app serves as a digital hub for the Air Line Pilots Association Singapore. It provides members with access to important information and resources relevant to their profession and association.
- Association information access
- Member resources
- Professional updates
- Digital platform
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Air Line Pilots Association Singapore (ALPA-S)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Use Before Flight at 4.0 against ALPA's 3.0. ALPA's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and review sentiment (50% vs 30%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Use Before Flight holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Use Before Flight's written reviews are positive against 50% of ALPA's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Use Before Flight ships an update every 2 months, ALPA monthly. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Use Before Flight | ALPA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 286 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Use Before Flight UK Ltd | CWD Pte Ltd |
Customer experience
Use Before Flight
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In-app purchases
Use Before Flight
No in-app purchases
ALPA
No in-app purchases
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