For Pilots Who Never Stop Training
ChairFly your next flight — anywhere there's a seat.
ChairFly turns your iPad into a cross-check trainer for pilots who believe the learning never really stops: tilt to fly attitude and heading, work VOR holds and VOR, ILS, and RNAV approaches, and drill the scan until it's automatic — no sim schedule, no facility fee, no hangar required.
What It Is
A cross-check trainer that lives in your backpack.
ChairFly is an iPad app built for pilots who believe training doesn't stop at the checkride — student, private, instrument, commercial, CFI, or CFII. Instead of waiting for the next sim block, you tilt the iPad itself to fly attitude and heading, work a physical-style throttle lever, and run the same instrument scan you'd fly on an actual approach — at the kitchen table, in the FBO lounge, between flights.
It ships in two tiers, so you can start free and upgrade only when you're ready for the glass panel most training aircraft are actually moving toward.
Free
6-Pack
$0
- Classic six-pack steam gauges
- Tilt-based attitude & heading control
- Physical-style throttle lever
- Mixed Cockpit: swap in a compact glass attitude display
- Unlimited cross-check practice
7-Day Free Trial
Glass Cockpit
$6.99/mo
7-day free trial, then $6.99/month. Cancel anytime.
- Electronic glass panel primary flight display with altitude selector
- ILS approaches & Missed Approach Practice
- VOR holds & VOR approaches
- RNAV approaches: LNAV & LNAV+VNAV
- ATC clearances spoken out loud
How It Works
Four steps to a sharper scan.
No setup, no sim reservation — just the panel and a scenario.
Pick your panel
Start on the free 6-Pack, or unlock the Glass Cockpit for a full electronic glass panel.
Fly by feel
Tilt the iPad to control attitude and heading, and run the throttle lever with your hand.
Run the approach
Fly VOR holds and VOR, ILS, and RNAV approaches while ATC vectors you and clears you in, just like on frequency.
Glass Cockpit Unlock
Check your work
Stabilize it down to minimums and you'll know — land it clean, level off at the MDA, or go missed and climb back out.
Glass Cockpit Unlock
Who It's For
Built for pilots who believe in learning.
Student, private, instrument, commercial, CFI, or CFII — the panel's worth flying at every stage. The holds and approaches just happen to hit hardest for instrument pilots.
Student Pilots
Start the scan early
Build cross-check habits from day one, long before instrument work is on the syllabus.
Private Pilots
Stay ready for IMC
Keep the instrument scan sharp for currency, clouds you didn't plan on, and honest decision-making.
Instrument Pilots
Where it hits hardest
Drill VOR holds, VOR, ILS, and RNAV approaches, and missed approaches until the scan is automatic — the exact reps that are hardest to get enough of before the checkride.
Commercial Pilots
Proficiency, on demand
Stay sharp between jobs and type ratings without booking sim time you don't have room for in the schedule.
CFIs
Ground school, on a screen
Pull up a scenario and walk a student through a hold or an approach before anyone straps in.
CFIIs
Teach the approach twice
Demonstrate holds, intercepts, full approaches, and missed approaches as many times as a student needs, without burning airplane time.
Our Goal
We want ChairFly to be the instrumental way pilots stay sharp — cheap, accessible, and small enough to fit in a backpack.
A full sim setup is expensive and tied to one location. ChairFly isn't trying to replace your CFI or your airplane — it's trying to replace the dead time in between, so every lesson starts a little further ahead than the last one.
— Get ChairFly —
Scan to open ChairFly on the App Store
Also
Hey, we've got merch too.
Nothing official yet — just some ChairFly gear we're putting together on the side. Tees and hoodies to start, worth actually wearing on the ramp.