# Nav Trainer Pro for Pilots
> Practice & improve your instrument navigation skills on your mobile device
Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.pilotscafe.apps.navtrainer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.pilotscafe.apps.navtrainer)
## Overview
- **ID:** `com.pilotscafe.apps.navtrainer`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Fleminger Media
- **Category:** EDUCATION
- **Downloads:** 8,092
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (121 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.4.1
- **Last updated:** 2017-11-16
- **First published:** 2011-06-02
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pilotscafe.apps.navtrainer)
- **Website:** [http://www.pilotscafe.com/contact/](http://www.pilotscafe.com/contact/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.pilotscafe.com/privacy](https://www.pilotscafe.com/privacy)
## Description
Nav Trainer Pro by PilotsCafe
Practice the use of aviation navigational equipment on your mobile device.
Simulates VOR, HSI, RMI, ADF, DME and ILS navigation.
A must have tool for any CFII, student and instrument pilot!
-Students and pilots: improve your understanding of radio instrument navigation at the comfort of your own mobile device.
-Instructors: demonstrate complex IFR concepts to your students from bird's-eye view while on the ground.
-Also suitable for flight simulator enthusiasts.
Used in classrooms, one-on-one ground sessions and by individuals to improve their IFR orientation skills.
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-user reviews (from all markets)
***** Great to study instruments and saves lots of $$$!!!"
"***** I have been looking for an app such as this to teach my students"
"***** Before I used this app all this VOR orientation was so complicated, and now it's clear as ice!"
"***** Easy to use, perfectly designed and helping to understand basic navigation stuff. Highly recommended for student pilots, instrument applicant and CFI's."
- Improve your situational awareness under IFR.
- Save time and money on your instrument and initial flight training.
- Prepare for your instrument rating or proficiency check.
- Test your NAV situational awareness with the test mode.
- Flight instructors: the perfect tool to help you easily explain and demonstrate complex radio navigation concepts to your students.
***Features:***
-Dual navigation displays.
-VOR\NDB trainer screen: Simulates VOR and NDB navigation using VOR, HSI, ADF and RMI displays.
-ILS trainer with both VOR and HSI displays.
-DME visualization screen - demonstrates how DME slant range distance is affected by ground distance and altitude.
-Test mode - generates phantom aircraft around the navaids. Your goal is to find the correct aircraft position.
-Drag and drop the aircraft and nav fix around the screen.
-Fly! mode - Make the airplane fly around the screen. great for practicing intercepting and tracking courses.
-Wind direction & velocity control.
-Aircraft tracing (contrail mode).
-Accelerator support for aircraft control.
How to use:
-Select the various instruments by double-tapping their dials.
-Toggle VOR sectors visualization on/off.
-Auto tune OBS by pressing the OBS knob.
-Auto turn the aircraft towards the nav fix by tapping the aircraft symbol. Double tap will turn the aircraft toward NAV station #2
-Change aircraft headings by flicking your finger over the heading indicator.
-Tune the OBS by dragging your finger around the HSI/VOR displays or over the OBS knob.
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The developer is a Gold Seal CFI/CFII/MEI and part 121 airline pilot
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For comments, feature requests or bug reports, if you have the app, please take the survey at http://bit.ly/hCAqgF
* (https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2013/february/26/five-more-aviation-apps-you-cant-live-without)
** If you experience any problem with the app, please contact me before leaving a review and I will do my best to solve it for you. **
## Rankings
- #606,590 — Overall
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