KnowTAM vs Abeam

Pass your FAA written and your checkride oral with one app. KnowTAM has 1,800+ flashcards, quizzes, practice exams, and oral-exam sets, written and reviewed by a working CFI. Start free. Pay once. Never a subscription. UPDATED FOR THE NEW INSTRUMENT QUESTIONS From October 26, 2026, the FAA's Instrument test adds image-based questions built on current sectional, approach, and low-altitude en route charts. KnowTAM's Instrument deck has 24 new cards on current FAA chart excerpts, so you practice reading them before test day. WHY PILOTS PICK KNOWTAM • Every card explains the "why," not just the answer, with the regulation or handbook reference and the exact FAA ACS code it covers. • Quizzes show why each wrong answer is wrong. • Real FAA figures: sectionals, instruments, approach plates, airport signs and markings, weather diagrams. • Timed practice exams built like the real test, scored against the 70% passing mark. Private exams follow the FAA subject blueprint. • Checkride and oral-exam sets that drill the way a Designated Pilot Examiner asks. Great before a flight review, too. A PLAN THAT GETS YOU THERE ON TIME Enter your rating and test date. KnowTAM sets each day's new cards and reviews, shows whether you're on track, and tells you when to take a practice exam. Spaced repetition brings back what you miss and spaces out what you know. In the final week, your plan brings back anything you haven't seen lately. STAY WITH IT • A daily streak that counts the days you hit your plan. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with today's study and your streak. • Optional reminders at the times you choose, only on days your plan isn't done yet, plus reminders the week of your test. KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY • Readiness by area shows which subjects are ready, close, or need work, from your practice exams and cards. One tap quizzes the weak ones. • Practice sets for the cards you missed recently and the ones you saved. • After the test, tell the app how it went. Passed? On to your next rating. Didn't pass? Enter the ACS codes from your test report and practice exactly those. STUDY ANYWHERE Fully offline, even in airplane mode. No account required. Study at the hold-short line, on a long cross-country, or on the airline ride to your checkride. A free optional account syncs progress across devices. RATINGS COVERED • Private Pilot • Instrument Rating • Commercial Pilot • Multi-Engine (Vmc, the critical engine, single-engine performance) • Aviation Weather: free for everyone START FREE, PAY ONCE The first three Private modules and the whole Aviation Weather track are free. Unlock the rest of Private, add Instrument, Commercial, or Multi-Engine, add checkride oral prep, or get the All-Access Bundle. One-time purchases, never a subscription. No ads. Your study progress stays on your device unless you choose to sync it. An app by Fly With Winston. KnowTAM is an independent study material and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the FAA.

Studying for a checkride — or trying not to forget everything you learned for the last one? Abeam turns aviation knowledge into a daily habit: five-minute sessions for student pilots working toward a rating, and for certificated pilots staying sharp between flights. Abeam is built for pilots — in training and staying current. Your next flight review, IPC, or unfamiliar towered field shouldn't be a scramble. Short, focused quizzes you can finish on a coffee break. Streaks that keep you flying through your study material. Games that make the hardest topics stick. And a realistic ATC radio simulator that lets you practice readbacks before you ever key the mic. A RADIO SIMULATOR THAT ACTUALLY TRAINS YOU 195 scenarios across 13 tracks — taxi clearances with hold-shorts and runway crossings, IFR clearance delivery, departures, enroute, approaches, go-arounds, and emergencies. Every scenario starts with a situation brief and, on the ground, an airport diagram showing your position, your taxi route, and exactly where to hold short. Listen to AI-generated ATC with realistic controller voices, key up, speak your readback, and get graded against real-world standards — the grading accepts proper phraseology variations the way a real controller would. Pass a level's scenarios to unlock the next difficulty, all the way to checkride-strict. DAILY QUIZZES TAILORED TO YOUR RATING Choose your track — VFR, IFR, Commercial, or CFI — and get questions calibrated to where you are in your training. Questions are grounded in FAR/AIM regulations and aeronautical references, with citations for every explanation. GAMES THAT TEACH Symbology: airport signs, runway markings, light gun signals, and VFR/IFR chart symbols — untimed visual recall with instant feedback, and IFR chart content that appears when your training calls for it. Weather Decoder for METAR/TAF practice. Phonetic Sprint for alphabet speed. The kind of practice that's painful with flashcards becomes addictive in short game loops. AI-POWERED CUSTOM QUIZZES Upload your study materials — manuals, study guides, FAR/AIM excerpts — and Abeam generates personalized quiz questions from them. Your study material becomes your test prep. STREAKS AND PROGRESS Build a daily study habit with calendar-day streaks, XP, and progress tracking that shows which topics you've mastered and where you need more reps. BUILT BY A PILOT, FOR PILOTS Created by an instrument-rated pilot working toward commercial. Abeam is a study companion, not a replacement for your CFI or formal flight training — but the daily reps make checkride prep feel like maintenance instead of a sprint. About the name: in aviation, "abeam the numbers" is the moment on downwind when you commit to landing — flaps down, descent begun, eyes on the threshold. The moment when training meets action. Abeam is named for that moment. Practice every day so when yours comes, you're ready. Try Abeam Premium free for 7 days. After that, $14.99/month or $119.99/year unlocks the full radio simulator, unlimited AI-generated quizzes from your documents, mastery tracking, and full analytics. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.flyabeam.com/privacy