Cloudy Tower: ATC Practice

Cloudy Tower teaches student pilots to talk on the radio by doing it. You hear a controller, you hold the button and make the call out loud, and you get a score for wording, order and completeness right away. It points out the part you missed, like a hold short, a runway or a squawk code.

FROM FIRST CALL TO CHECKRIDE, AROUND YOUR AIRPORT Pick your home airport from the FAA database and the course builds itself around it: your runways, the fields nearby and the nearest towered airport. You go from radio basics and the home pattern to leaving and coming back, then airspace, frequencies and ATIS, then your first tower, cross-country flights, emergencies and checkride flights. There is an Instrument track too.

HEAR IT, SAY IT, GET GRADED • Controllers speak over a realistic radio effect with four noise levels, from Clear to Real. • Hold to talk. Apple's speech recognition turns your call into text, and your call is graded against the expected call and accepted variations. • Safety-critical items (hold short, runway, altitude, heading, squawk, frequency) cap your score if you miss them.

COPY IT LIKE IN THE AIRPLANE From the airspace stage on, the controller's words stay hidden. You copy the clearance onto a kneeboard with your finger, in boxes made for the call (taxi, takeoff and landing, vectors, CRAFT, ATIS), then read it back.

LEARN, THEN PROVE IT Each lesson has a short briefing with the phraseology and the reason for it, citing the AIM, the Pilot/Controller Glossary, JO 7110.65 and AC 90-66C. Then quick checks, guided calls, practice, and a checkride on your own.

TRAIN EVERY DAY Today shows your next lesson, your streak, the calls you got wrong (spaced review) and your home airport's live wind. Listen plays practice frequencies built from the course; tap any phrase to decode it. The Logbook tracks your level, accuracy by stage and recent calls. • Call of the day: turn it on and one controller call arrives each evening at the time you choose. Tap it and read it back.

FREE AND PRO Free: radio basics and the home pattern in full, plus 5 review calls a day from later stages. Cloudy Tower Pro: every stage, the Instrument track, all checkrides and unlimited review. Choose monthly or yearly. Yearly starts with a 1-week free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Your subscription renews automatically at the same price and length unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it anytime in your Apple Account settings.

Private by design: your progress stays on your iPhone, and you start practicing right away.

Cloudy Tower is a training aid for practice on the ground. Fly with your flight instructor, and in the airplane follow ATC and official FAA publications.

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