IFR Trainer: Holds & Radials

The maneuver examiners love to fail you on. Drill holding entries, VOR radial interception and DME arcs on a live HSI until they're automatic.

The needle starts moving and you freeze. Direct, parallel or teardrop? Intercept the radial before you blow through it, or fly a DME arc without ballooning off the circle? IFR Trainer drills the three maneuvers that trip up instrument rating students until they stop feeling like maneuvers at all — before you burn a cent of Hobbs time proving it in the airplane.

THREE MODES, ONE APP

Hold Entry Trainer Read the heading, the inbound radial and the turn direction, then call the entry: Direct, Parallel or Teardrop. Wrong guess? See exactly why, on a clear 3-sector diagram with a ±5° tolerance for the boundary cases that trip up every student once. Then fly the holding pattern itself, by hand, on a live HSI/CDI — scored on time in the pattern, maximum deviation and fix crossings. Easy mode is calm air. Hard mode adds crosswind drift, the way it actually shows up on a checkride.

Radial Interception Pick your inbound or outbound radial, set your own intercept angle, add wind if you want the real challenge, and track the needle to centered. IFR Trainer scores how long you hold the course inside a tight tolerance corridor — not just whether you got there once.

DME Arc Fly a constant-distance arc around a DME station: adjustable radius from 6 to 16 nautical miles, your choice of sweep angle, clockwise or counterclockwise, wind on or off. Keep the station abeam and the DME needle pinned — the maneuver most instrument students only fly twice before their checkride.

ALSO FREE Timed Exam — 10 questions, 20 seconds each, the same clock-pressure as an oral. Stats & History — every attempt logged, so you can watch your accuracy climb instead of guessing whether you're actually improving.

BUILT FOR Instrument rating students working the ACS. Private pilots moving up to IFR. Instrument-rated pilots who haven't flown a DME arc in a year and want to stay sharp before a flight review. CFIIs who need a fast, repeatable drill for a lesson instead of redrawing hold diagrams on a whiteboard.

Three instrument skills most flight training apps split across three separate downloads — holding pattern entries, VOR radial interception, and DME arc procedures — live here in one place, with a live moving map and real HSI/CDI instrumentation instead of static diagrams.

DESIGNED LIKE A COCKPIT Dark interface built for a kneeboard, not a toy. No account, no setup screens between you and the next attempt. Full VoiceOver support reads your flight instruments aloud, with full Dynamic Type — built for pilots who actually use accessibility features, not as an afterthought.

Free to start. Remove ads with a one-time purchase, or unlock every mode for life — no subscription required to train.

Know the entry. Own the radial. Nail the arc. Walk into your instrument rating checkride having already flown every maneuver on it.

PRIVACY Your training history stays on your device. Purchases handled securely by Apple.

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