PilotBound vs Airspace Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PilotBound
This app provides a personalized roadmap for aspiring pilots, guiding them from the initial decision to fly through to passing their checkride. It tracks flight hours and costs against a custom plan, offering CFI guidance at each step. Users can log flights, monitor progress, and understand their real expenses.
- Personalized flight training roadmap
- Cost projection and tracking
- Flight hour logging
- Progress monitoring against requirements
- CFI guidance on training steps
- Per-aircraft and per-certificate costing
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Flight training costs more than the quote. PilotBound tells you what yours will actually cost, priced on the rates your own school publishes, and tracks every dollar against it until checkride day. PRICED ON YOUR SCHOOL, NOT AN AVERAGE • Search 1,713 flight schools and pick where you train • 535 publish enough for us to price your certificate on their real rates • Every figure says where it came from and when it was read • Where a school publishes nothing, we say so and use a national median WHAT YOUR CERTIFICATE WILL COST • A full projection to checkride, not an hourly rate times the legal minimum • Built on the hours examiners actually report, not 40 hours • Sharpens with every flight you log until it is your number • One projection per certificate: Private, Instrument, Commercial, CFI, CFII, ATP • Per aircraft, so a 152 and a Cirrus never hide inside one average CAN YOU AFFORD IT • Track savings, loans and scholarships against what is still ahead • See whether your funding covers the finish, and for how long • Set a budget and get told before you cross it, not after YOUR PLAN, START TO CHECKRIDE • A step by step roadmap from "I want to fly" to checkride passed • Discovery flight, school, medical, student certificate, ground school, gear • First solo, first cross country, the written, the checkride • Plain CFI guidance on each step: what to do, what to skip, what to watch EVERY HOUR, EVERY FIELD • PIC, dual, solo, cross country, night, instrument, approaches, landings, holds • Every Part 61 and Part 141 requirement, completed and remaining • Milestones detected as you fly: first solo, first cross country, first night • Costs pre-filled from your aircraft and instructor rates Built by a CFI for the years before anyone hands you a plan. Your training data stays private. By downloading PilotBound, you agree to the Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
Airspace Trainer
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From AutoPilot: offline flight training drills made by a CFII. Drag the airplane. Watch the rule change. Airspace Trainer turns 14 CFR 91.155 from a table you memorize into a picture you understand. Move the airplane through Class B, C, D, E and G, above and below 10,000 feet, and watch the required visibility and cloud clearance update as you go. Drag it anywhere, or use the Left, Right, Climb and Descend buttons to move it one line at a time. BUILT AROUND ONE QUESTION Is this flight legal? Every scenario drops you at a specific place and altitude and asks you to call it. When the answer is no, it asks the harder one: which rule decides it? Knowing the answer is not the same as knowing why. EVERY VERDICT CITES THE REGULATION No hand-waving. Each answer comes back with the section number behind it, so you can trace it to the source and say it out loud on a checkride oral. THREE ALTITUDE BANDS, NOT THIRTEEN ROWS The 91.155 table is famously miserable to memorize. Airspace Trainer teaches the structure underneath it: what changes at 10,000 feet, what changes at 1,200 AGL, and which classes actually behave the same way. FIND OUT WHERE YOU ARE WEAK Progress tracking shows which airspace classes and which rules you keep missing, so study time goes where it counts instead of where it is comfortable. THE WHOLE TABLE, FOR LOOKING UP A clean 91.155 reference is always one tap away, for when you need the number rather than the drill. WHO IT IS FOR - Student pilots working toward a private or sport certificate - Anyone prepping the FAA knowledge test or a checkride oral - Rated pilots knocking the rust off before a flight review - Instructors who want a whiteboard that answers back No account. No ads. No data collected. Airspace Trainer is a study aid, not a substitute for the current regulations or your instructor's judgment. Always fly by the FAR/AIM and your operating limitations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PilotBound at every 3 weeks against Airspace Trainer's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
PilotBound ships an update every 3 weeks, Airspace Trainer every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | PilotBound | Airspace Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FlightXplorer LLC | Jack Post |
In-app purchases
PilotBound
No in-app purchases
Airspace Trainer
No in-app purchases
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