Prepware Instrument Pilot

Now don’t get me wrong Prepware is one of my favorite apps when it’s comes to studying for writtens I use it for everything. Private pilot, airframe mechanic, powerplant mechanic, general written exam for mechanics, and now my instrument. So I’m very familiar with this app and it’s accuracy for writtens and usually it is spot on when it comes to question answers and wording but for my instrument rating airplane it was different. I studied hard on it taking quizzes and scoring 90’s so I said it’s time for the real written to be taken. I went I took it I failed and I was amazed how many questions I had never seen. So I beat myself up and studied harder and went back to take the written again and once again I saw questions I had never even seen before and got an even lower score after studying even more. So I did what I didn’t want to do cause I don’t care for the software and switched to Sheppard air and I have to admit almost 80%+ of the questions on there were worded entirely different and there’s 200+ more questions to study. So not only did prepware let me down with the wording of questions but it also doesn’t have the entire written question bank. All I ask from prepware is to make sure all their software is up to date and has all the questions the FAA has for each written.

The worst app , some question does not even have de figures and some of the figures has nothing to do with the question . I want my money back

Some figures are not loaded and some are wrong figures not belong to the question

Although this app has a positive side, which you don’t need internet to use. However, the sequence of the questions are always random and doesn’t keep your progress nor does it provide any reports of performance.

There’s a large number of fixed-wing specific questions in the rotorcraft section.

Worth 10$ thou Helped me to get ready for written

The app was decent prior to the new update, but now the correct answers are no longer shown in green when grading an unanswered practice test. This makes studying extremely time consuming and not worth the money.

Dark mode breaks the look of the app with latest versions of iOS and iPadOS. Otherwise a great study tool.

I read all the reviews and was nervous because many people said this did not adequately prepare them for the written exam. I spent just one week on the app and when I took the test for the first time on September 26, 2019 I got 97%. The app does not have identical questions to the FAA test, and that’s okay. It’s not supposed to. You are supposed to learn how the systems work and know how to apply them to any situation. This app does a great job of giving examples, and if you actually study what you are supposed to learn, you will pass the test easily. The skill of being a good pilot is not about having wrote memory and just regurgitating answers from an app. Use this as a tool to become a good pilot and you’ll do fine on the test.

After taking about 50 practice exams with this program and scoring in the 80s-90s I felt very confident that I would do well on the written. Took the test today (Sep. 26 2019) and saw about three questions on the actual test that I saw in all the practice exams and study sessions. I squeaked by and passed but was really disappointed to see over 55 questions that I had never seen before. Very sad because ASA was key to passing my private written but i think I’ll be going with another software company from here out. Highly recommend you don’t use this app as your sole study source for the instrument written.