Pilot theory · EASA PPL (A)
You open the app and the session is ready: your revisions due, the question you got wrong, the next lesson. There is nothing for you to choose — that's our job, and it's what brings you back tomorrow.
Demo mode, no sign-up · Preparation for the official exam, not a certifying body
1 · Card due today
NOTAM — definition
The session above is real: content, marking and debrief all come straight from the platform.
Where we stand
Nobody fails the theory exam for lack of intelligence. People fail because they stop. Everything here is built against that.
You open the app and the session is already built: the cards due today, the questions you got wrong last time, the next lesson. Nothing to choose, nothing to plan — that is what keeps you going on day thirty.
A quiz checks that you know. A scenario checks that you decide. Weather closing in, a passenger pushing you, an engine failure on take-off: you choose, you see the consequence, and the debrief names the bias that made you choose.
Every concept comes back just before you would have forgotten it, and the interval stretches as it sticks. That is why, three months in, the air law from module one is still there.
From the ground to the cockpit
Knowing the VFR minima says nothing about what you will do the day your passenger is in a hurry and the visibility drops. Here is one of the platform's scenarios — make the call, and you'll see what follows.
Briefing
You are halfway there. The weather at destination is dropping below VFR minima. Turning back adds 45 minutes to the flight. Your passenger is pressing you to arrive. What do you decide?
Choose — no answer is neutral, each one has a consequence.
Our preparation courses
Each course follows the official exam syllabus, cut into short lessons and ordered the way you learn it — not the way it was written.
Flying Cockpit prepares you for the exam; it does not award it. The "available" label below means the revision course is ready, nothing more.
The official theoretical syllabus, cut into ten-minute lessons and ordered the way you learn it.
The platform is built to host other certifications: the learning engine stays the same, only the content changes.
Under construction — the engine is ready, the content is coming.
The platform
Not three apps and a pile of paper cards: one tool, from the first lesson to the last mock exam.
One button: cards due, questions missed, next lesson. Ten to fifteen minutes.
20 branching in-flight situations, each with its consequence and a debrief of the cognitive bias.
Every flashcard comes back just before you would have forgotten it.
Drawn according to the official distribution by subject, timed, with full marking.
Seven virtual instructors who answer on the syllabus: air law, meteorology, radio, human factors.
METAR / TAF decoder, VHF phraseology trainer, navigation calculator.
You give your exam date, the platform spreads the modules across the remaining weeks.
Mastery rate module by module, time spent, progress curve.
Exam day
As your mastery rates climb, the platform puts you in exam conditions: questions drawn according to the official distribution by subject, a timer, and marking question by question.
Try it right now: here are three questions from the exam bank, chosen because they catch almost everyone out.
PPL (A)Air law
What is the minimum flight altitude over a congested area?
Pick an answer — the explanation appears straight away.
The PPL (A) syllabus
Around 125 hours of study covering the nine subjects of the EASA theoretical exam. The official subject code is shown alongside.
Airspace, licences, rules of the air
7 lessons · 12h
Forces of flight, lift, stalling, stability
9 lessons · 16h
Systems, engine, instruments, fuel
6 lessons · 10h
Mass, balance, take-off, climb, cruise, flight planning
5 lessons · 9h
METAR, TAF, clouds, icing, thunderstorms
8 lessons · 18h
Heading, nav log, VOR, GPS, lost procedure
7 lessons · 20h
ICAO phraseology, emergencies, transponder
5 lessons · 8h
Cognitive biases, illusions, IMSAFE, CRM
8 lessons · 10h
Checklists, departure, arrival, emergencies
5 lessons · 8h
Weather briefing, nav log, flight plan
5 lessons · 6h
Engine failure, fire, inadvertent IMC
5 lessons · 8h
Both courses combined, to date
Theory isn't lost for lack of motivation on day one, but for lack of regularity on day thirty. Our only job: keeping today's session easy to open.
Cards on the table
Three things better known before you create an account than discovered afterwards.
We are not an ATO, not a DTO, not an examination centre, and we award no qualification. The PPL (A) theoretical exam is sat with your national aviation authority. Your instructor and your flying club remain the reference — we are the training in between two lessons.
Excellent ones exist, often larger than ours, sometimes for the price of a tank of fuel. Our job is not to line up questions: it is to decide which ones you should do today, and to put you in a position to make decisions in flight.
That is the promise everyone makes and nobody keeps: without a rhythm, people give up after three weeks. We assume the opposite — a short appointment, every day, and a streak you can see.
Frequently asked
Student pilots preparing the EASA PPL (A) theoretical exam, whether through a flying club or self-studying. The syllabus is the European one, so the course works wherever EASA rules apply.
A question bank lets you choose what to revise — which in practice means revising what you already know. Here, today's session is built by the platform from what is due, what you got wrong and where you are in the syllabus. On top of that come the decision scenarios, which have no equivalent in a quiz: you don't tick a right answer, you live with the consequence.
No, and this matters: we are a revision tool, not an approved training organisation nor an examination centre. We award no qualification. The PPL (A) theoretical exam is sat with your national aviation authority, and it is your flying club that registers you for it.
No. It is a revision and training tool. Your instructor, the official documentation (AIP, EASA regulations, flight manual) and your flights remain the reference.
The platform's assistants are indeed language models, and we say so plainly: they answer your questions, they do not write the syllabus. Lessons, flashcards and exam questions are grounded in official texts — EASA regulations, AIP, national AIS publications — and every lesson links to its sources so you can check for yourself.
The PPL course represents around 125 hours of study spread over its 11 modules. With a daily session complemented by longer weekend sittings, most students aim for three to six months.
Yes. The platform is designed mobile-first: today's session, the flashcards and the quizzes all work one-handed, standing on a train.
Yes. Demo mode gives access to the platform without signing up: you browse the lessons, flashcards and quizzes, and you create an account whenever you want to keep your progress.
Boarding
Fifteen minutes today, fifteen minutes tomorrow. That is how the theory exam gets passed.