Learning to fly starts on the ground. We built a calmer place to do it.
Aviator IQ covers the FAA's knowledge tests, from Private Pilot to ATP, and ties every question back to the handbook it came from.
Ask almost any pilot about ground school and you will hear the same story: enormous handbooks, charts that look like riddles, and practice tools that seem to have been designed in 2004. The knowledge test is a real hurdle, and for years the way to prepare for it has been to endure it.
We thought that was a fixable problem. Aviator IQ is our answer: one place to study for thirteen FAA knowledge exams, from Private Pilot all the way up to Airline Transport Pilot, built to feel as calm as the cabin of a well-flown airplane.
Every answer has an address
The principle behind the product is simple. A question is only useful if you can see where it came from. So each one is mapped to the source it is drawn from: the FAA's own handbooks, the Airman Certification Standards, and the official testing figures. When you get something wrong, the explanation points you back to the chapter, so a single missed question becomes a single solid lesson.
A missed question should turn into a lesson, not a reason to memorize and move on.
The figures matter more than people expect. On test day you are handed charts and supplements, and reading them quickly is a skill of its own. In Aviator IQ those figures sit right beside the question, the way they will in the testing room.
Knowing when you are ready
Most students book their test on a hunch. We wanted to replace the hunch with something honest, so Aviator IQ gives you a readiness score that blends how much of the material you have covered, how accurate you are, how well you remember it, and how quickly you answer. It moves when you learn. It does not flatter you.
You can study the way your week allows: a quick set on a lunch break, a drill on one weak topic, or a full simulator run when you want to find out how exam day would go.
More than a question bank
Around the practice sits a growing library of study guides, a tool for looking up the codes on your test results, and an index of pass rates built from real FAA data. It is written for the student pilot working toward a first certificate, the instructor refreshing a lesson, and the airline hopeful with a long road ahead.
Aviator IQ is on the web, and it is now in the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android, so a quick drill can happen anywhere you have a few minutes.
Who it is for
Aviator IQ is for anyone with an FAA knowledge test ahead of them: student pilots working toward a first certificate, instrument and commercial candidates, aspiring flight and ground instructors, aircraft mechanics, and remote pilots getting ready for the Part 107 drone exam.
What is inside
Thirteen exams in all: Private Pilot, Sport Pilot, Instrument, Commercial and Airline Transport Pilot; Flight Instructor, Instrument Flight Instructor, Fundamentals of Instructing and Ground Instructor; Mechanic General, Airframe and Powerplant; and Remote Pilot for small drones. Each exam has its own question bank, practice runs and a full simulator, matched to the real test. The Private Pilot test, for example, is 60 questions with a 70 percent passing score, and the bank behind it holds 985 questions.
