Listen
Get used to the cadence.
Controller-style voices and radio filtering help you separate a quick instruction into useful pieces.
TOWER DRILL
Practice ATC before your next flight lesson.
Simulated ATC practice for student pilots
Hear a simulated controller, answer out loud, and get focused feedback before your next flight lesson.
- 5 lessons free
- 577 US practice airports
- $8.99 one-time purchase
Why spoken practice helps
The hard part is answering in real time.
Reading phraseology is useful. Saying a complete readback while details are still arriving is a different skill. Tower Drill gives you a quiet place to practice that exact moment.
Respond
Say the whole readback.
Hold push-to-talk and answer in your own voice. You are practicing recall, not recognizing words on a screen.
Repeat
Correct one detail at a time.
See the runway, frequency, squawk, or instruction you missed, then take the call again while it is fresh.
A ten-minute session
One call at a time, with room to try it again.
Calls use FAA-style phraseology and changing details. Nothing is broadcast, and speech recognition stays on your device.
1
Listen for your callsign
A simulated ground, tower, approach, or center controller gives you a realistic instruction.
2
Press, hold, and answer
Make the readback in your own voice. Choose full coaching, a few prompts, or no hints.
3
Check the important items
Review what the app heard, replay your transmission, and repeat the call when something was missed.
Practice a real task
Hear your callsign, find the instruction, and make the readback at a comfortable pace.
Catch the item you missed
Feedback checks the operational details and leaves harmless wording differences alone.
See what is getting easier
Track specific radio skills and bring a short progress report to your instructor.
Have a look at this
Fresh from the Radio Room.
Release · August 2026
Tower Drill 2.0: from lesson app to personal radio coach
Tape Review, Practice My Misses, the Taxi Trainer, and a full tour of what changed and why.
Start here · Radio confidence
Radio anxiety is normal: a practical guide to beating mic fright
Why the microphone makes capable pilots freeze, and a graduated plan that makes the call routine.
For flight schools
How a flight school can run a radio program
Map spoken practice to syllabus stages, standardize across instructors, and verify the reps happened.
Choose the right kind of rep
Use the amount of help you need today.
Listen & Shadow
Hear an example and repeat it without a grade. A good starting point when the microphone still feels awkward.
Training & Coached
Begin with the expected response on screen, then reduce the prompts as the call becomes familiar.
Solo Practice
Answer changing ATC instructions without seeing the response first.
Tape Review
Replay a saved transmission, read the transcript, and compare it with the expected response.
Practice My Misses
Build a short session from the calls and radio items that gave you trouble.
Taxi Trainer
Put a taxi route in order and identify every runway crossing and hold-short instruction.
Your home airport
Practice with the names and numbers you expect to hear.
Choose from 577 US towered airports. Scenarios use FAA-derived runway and frequency references for the field you select, including its approach facility.
- Use your own tail number and aircraft type with Pro
- Randomized calls prevent memorizing one script
- Training reference data is bundled for practice
Airport values are training references, not live operational data. Verify every value with current official sources before flight.
Flight Day
Do the briefing, then rehearse the radio work.
Flight Day points you to current airport sources, then turns the operation you choose into a simulated radio sequence. The source information and the rehearsal are clearly labeled.
Read the Flight Day tutorialBriefing information
Latest available Aviation Weather Center METAR, plus in-app links to Aviation Weather, FAA NOTAM Search, Chart Supplement Search, and the airport diagram.
Controller calls and clearances
Tower Drill generates the ATC conversation for rehearsal. It is not connected to a real controller and never provides an operational clearance.
Help when you need it
Not sure where to begin?
FIELD GUIDE
Learn every practice mode
Follow a first-session plan, understand Flight Day, reset progress, and choose a routine before or after a lesson.
RADIO ROOMPractical radio guidance
Mic fright, first-solo calls, listening exercises, instructor guidance, and notes on how Tower Drill was built.
NEW TO AVIATIONNot training yet?
Decode a sample radio exchange and learn what to expect from a first visit to a flight school.
Start with five free lessons
Get the full course for one payment.
The first five lessons are free. A one-time $8.99 purchase includes the complete course, 577 practice airports, and the advanced practice tools.
$05 beginner lessons
24 spoken drills
24 spoken drills
$8.99Pro, paid once
Full course and 577 airports
Full course and 577 airports
A few good reps can change the start of a lesson.
Practice privately until hearing your tail number feels familiar.
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