WilcoAI is an iPhone and iPad app that lets pilots rehearse ATC radio calls out loud against an AI controller and grades every readback against FAA standard phraseology.
Built for student pilots before a checkride, instrument students drilling clearances, and rated pilots staying current.
Free download · iPhone & iPad · iOS 26+
Every session is push-to-talk and scored. Free gets you a daily call; First Officer and Captain add drills, full flights, and more voices.
The controller speaks a synthetic ATC transmission through your earpiece. When it finishes, hold the push-to-talk button, speak your readback out loud, and release to send — the same half-duplex rhythm as a real radio, no typing.
WilcoAI scores each response on correctness, clarity, and speed against FAA standard phraseology. The debrief shows what you got right, what you missed, and cites the AIM 4-2-3 paragraph or JO 7110.65 section the call exercises.
Quick Drill isolates a single category: ground, tower, departure, approach, or an emergency call. Repeat the exact phrase you are weak on. A session runs about five minutes and ten transmissions.
Full Flight runs a complete scenario at a real airport: ground, tower, departure, center, approach, and back to ground, with real hand-offs and, for IFR, published procedures. Sessions run thirty to sixty minutes.
One curated ATC transmission lands every day, about sixty to ninety seconds end to end, free on every tier. A streak counter tracks every day you practice, whether or not you subscribe.
Multiple AI voices rotate across ground, tower, departure, center, and approach, so a hand-off sounds like a hand-off. A controller that pushes back mirrors how a real one escalates: it repeats a missed call, then asks you to say again.
Inside the app
Hold the push-to-talk button and read it back out loud. The controller spoke by audio — your job is to repeat it correctly, concisely, and fast.
Correctness, clarity, and speed — scored after each readback. The debrief shows what you nailed, what you missed, and the exact words you said.
Daily Challenge, Quick Drill, Phase Block, and Full Flight — all from one screen. Your current aircraft and home airport are always set and ready.
One real-world scenario lands every day, free. Your callsign is already loaded — tap Play and hear the controller call before you key the mic.
VFR or IFR. Filter by phase: ground, tower, departure, emergency. Then pick a category. Each row shows the FAA reference it trains.
Rehearse VFR pattern calls and towered-field comms before you ever key the mic solo or fly the checkride.
Drill IFR clearance copies, holds, and approach hand-offs the same way you will hear them in the airplane.
Practice any procedure at any airport you are about to fly, from a familiar tower to an unfamiliar Class B.
Warm up the radio before a flight review, so the first real call is not the first one in months.
A new ATC Daily Challenge every day — free, no card needed. Two subscriptions unlock the full drill library and multi-turn scenarios. 14-day free trial on the annual plan.
WilcoAI is free to download. The Daily Challenge is free forever, with one attempt a day. First Officer is $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year and adds three Daily Challenge attempts a day plus Quick Drill. Captain is $6.99 a month or $49.99 a year and adds Phase Block and Full Flight. Both subscriptions include a 14-day free trial on the annual plan only — monthly billing has no trial. Subscriptions auto-renew through the App Store and cancel anytime from iOS Settings.
| Capability | Free | First Officer | Captain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $2.99/mo or $19.99/yr | $6.99/mo or $49.99/yr |
| Daily Challenge | 1 attempt/day | 3 attempts/day | 3 attempts/day |
| Quick Drill | Locked | 5 sets/day | 5 sets/day |
| Phase Block | Locked | Locked | 5/month |
| Full Flight | Locked | Locked | 3/month |
| Streak, badges, history | Streak and badges | Full history | Full history |
| Credit packs | Available | Available | Available, 20% off |
| Free trial | — | 14 days, annual only | 14 days, annual only |
$0
Forever free — no card, no trial needed.
$19.99/yr
Save 44% vs monthly. Billed yearly.
$49.99/yr
Save 40% vs monthly. Billed yearly.
One-time credit packs unlock Full Flights and Phase Blocks on any tier — including free. No subscription required. Built for the one-checkride week, the pre-Bravo rehearsal, or the Captain who wants a fourth flight this month.
$1.99
$4.99
$14.99
$4.99
Captain subscribers get 20% off every pack, applied at purchase.
Prices in USD. Subscriptions auto-renew and bill through the App Store; cancel anytime from iOS Settings. Credit packs are one-time purchases that never expire. WilcoAI is published by AIVIATION LLC.
Synthetic. Every controller transmission is generated and spoken by AI text-to-speech, never recorded from a real frequency and never rebroadcast air traffic control. WilcoAI is a training aid only, not for flight use, and nothing it generates should ever be treated as a real clearance.
No. WilcoAI is a ground-school training aid, not an FAA-approved product, and it is not for flight use. Never act on a simulated clearance.
Each response is scored on correctness, clarity, and speed against FAA standard phraseology. The debrief shows what you got right, what you missed, and cites the AIM paragraph or JO 7110.65 section the call exercises, so you know exactly what to fix next.
Yes. Phase Block and Full Flight cover IFR clearance copies, holds, and approach hand-offs tied to real airports and, when available, real published procedures. Quick Drill and the Daily Challenge cover VFR pattern work and towered-field comms the same way.
No. WilcoAI requires no account and no sign-in — set a callsign and aircraft once and start practicing. It does require an internet connection: the controller, the grading, and the voices are all generated server-side, so there is no offline mode.
One Daily Challenge attempt every day, free forever, plus a streak counter and badges. Quick Drill, Phase Block, and Full Flight require First Officer or Captain, though one-time credit packs let any tier try a Full Flight or Phase Block without subscribing.
Yes, on the annual plan only. Both First Officer at $19.99 a year and Captain at $49.99 a year include a 14-day free trial; monthly billing has no trial. Subscriptions auto-renew through the App Store and cancel anytime from iOS Settings.
Full Flight and Phase Block build scenarios around real airports, using real published procedures where available for IFR. Quick Drill covers 12 drill scenarios across five phase categories — ground, tower, departure, approach, and emergency — so you can drill the exact phase you want.
WilcoAI's phraseology, procedures, and grading are pulled from the FAA's own publications at inference time — nothing is hardcoded:
WilcoAI is a ground-school tool. Phraseology, procedures, and grading reference FAA JO 7110.65, AIM Chapter 4, the Pilot/Controller Glossary, and AC 90-66. Those documents remain the source of truth. Nothing WilcoAI generates is a real clearance. The app does not replace a CFI, a DPE, or an official FAA publication.
Built by AIVIATION LLC, an independent developer of pilot apps. Support: support@aiviation.dev.
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