For Pilots Who Never Stop Training
Chair fly 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 real VOR holds and ILS 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
- Unlimited cross-check practice
One-time unlock
Glass Cockpit
$20
Yours forever. No subscription.
- Electronic glass panel primary flight display
- VOR CDI & ILS localizer / glideslope
- Full VOR hold and ILS approach scenarios
- In-flight timer & nav frequencies
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 like the real thing.
Run the approach
Work VOR holds and ILS approaches while scripted ATC calls vector you, just like a real clearance.
Check your work
Stabilize it down to minimums and you'll know — land it clean, or go around and try again.
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 VOR holds and ILS 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 full VOR holds and ILS 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, and full approaches as many times as a student needs, without burning airplane time.
Our Goal
We want ChairFly to be the self-taught 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 real lesson starts a little further ahead than the last one.
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.