Your first EFB should be your best one.
Tropiq is $1/month for student pilots — every feature, every chart, every device. Built so students learn faster and CFIs can track progress, sign endorsements, and teach weather in context.
$1/month while you train. No catch.
Other EFBs charge $150-$360/year and still lock features behind higher tiers. Tropiq is $1/month for student pilots — every feature, no limits, for as long as you're actively training. Log at least 1 hour of dual instruction signed off by a CFI in the app each month and your student rate stays active. Miss a month? Just log a dual flight to reactivate. For flight schools, that's the most affordable way to standardize every student on the same EFB from day one.
Learn weather as you go — METARs decoded in context.
Every METAR and TAF is shown decoded into plain English alongside the raw text, but here's the key: we show you when it matters. METARs from 2 weeks out? Raw. METARs from 24 hours before your flight? Decoded and highlighted. Weather changes overnight? You see why they matter. The briefing adapts to proximity, so students learn what weather data matters and when — naturally, over the course of their training.
Visualize the pattern before you fly it.
Tropiq's 3D traffic pattern visualization shows the exact geometry of downwind, base, and final before the first pattern. See holding points, understand sight lines, know where each turn leads. CFIs can show a perfect pattern and compare it to the student's actual flight. Pattern work becomes less abstract when you can see it in three dimensions before leaving the ground.
Digital endorsements and progress tracking.
CFIs sign endorsements from FAA-standard templates directly in the app. Stored in the student's logbook and the instructor's records simultaneously — searchable, exportable, backed up. When a student shares their logbook, the CFI sees every flight, currency status, and real-time progress toward solo, cross-country, and checkride requirements. No paper books to lose, no reconstructing records the night before a checkride.
CRAFT briefing pre-filled and explained.
The FAA wants Conditions, Route, Alternates, Forecast, and Thermal considerations — but you don't know what that means yet. Tropiq pre-fills the CRAFT briefing and shows you exactly where each section comes from: this is your METAR, this is your TAF, here's your alternate's weather. Learn the format by doing it every flight with guidance.
ATIS transcription before you hit the range.
Before your first towered-airport flight, you'll have heard ATIS hundreds of times in Tropiq. Real-world recordings played at normal speed, then decoded. By the time you call ground, you'll already know what the airport is reporting.
Train on the sim with the same EFB you fly with.
Connect Tropiq to Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, or Prepar3D and the app works exactly the same as it does in the airplane — ownship tracking, glide ring, airspace alerts, AI traffic, and track logs. Rehearse pattern work, ATIS workflow, and cross-country briefings on the ground so you're not learning the EFB during your first solo. Sim flights record into the same Drift history your CFI reviews. Your Hobbs time is for flying, not menu-hunting.
- Works with MSFS 2020/2024, X-Plane 11/12, and Prepar3D over local Wi-Fi
- Full feature parity: map, glide ring, airspace + terrain alerts, traffic, track log
- Same $1/mo student rate — use it on the sim and in the airplane
Works on any device. Graduate when you're ready.
Don't buy an iPad just for flying. Tropiq works on iOS and Android — whatever your students already own. When they pass the checkride, they transition to regular pricing. Logbook, endorsements, aircraft profiles, and all their data carry over. The EFB they trained with is the EFB they fly with for years.