Trainee
T1$99/year
or $24 / mo
Full .65 question bank. Block Prep timed exams. Every Academy block.
- All .65 chapters & all blocks
- FSRS-6 scheduling, mobile + desktop
- Block Prep timed quizzes
- Cancel anytime, keep your progress
Founder presale · 100 seats
Don’t be in the 35%.
ModernATC is a spaced-repetition study system for the FAA Academy curriculum — built on JO 7110.65BB, the Pilot/Controller Glossary, and the AIM. Open it on the bus, the sim break, the night before a block test.
- FSRS-6 scheduling, tuned to FAA test cadence
- Definition · phraseology · scenario · spot-the-error
- Tagged by Academy block and chapter
- Public-domain source, no scraped textbooks
Reserve a Founder seat — $99Lifetime access · 3 yrs of updates
Or just get notified when public beta opens
§ 01 · The Problem
You worked for years to score Best Qualified. Then you got a Tentative Offer Letter and a stack of community PDFs.
The pipeline from TOL to a fully certified facility is one of the hardest selection processes in U.S. aviation. The hard part is no longer the aptitude test — it’s the months of self-study before the Academy, where the failure rate is loud and the available tools are quiet.
Academy washout
30–35%
Recent FAA reporting puts trainee washout above 30%.
Second attempts
0
Failed Academy = career change. There is no retake.
Time between TOL and Academy
3–9 mo
Months of silence — and no commercial-grade study product to fill them.
Numbers above reflect FAA and DOT-OIG reporting in 2024–2025. They will be updated as new figures are published.
§ 02 · Modules
Four modules, one progression: from first read of the .65 to recurrent training years later.
M1▸ Ships at launch
The .65
Spaced-repetition over JO 7110.65BB chapter by chapter, the Pilot/Controller Glossary, and AIM Chapters 4–5.
- Definition · fill-the-phraseology · scenario · spot-the-error
- Tagged by Academy block: Basics → Tower → Terminal → En Route
- Citation on every card (paragraph-level, not just chapter)
M2▸ Ships at launch
Block Prep
Timed practice exams that mirror Academy block-tests in shape and pacing — not in content.
- Per-block scoring and weakness heatmap
- Composition follows public Academy course objectives
- Resume mid-test on a different device
M3◆ Closed beta
Phraseology Pro
Audio readback drills. You play the controller, the app plays the pilot. The app scores fidelity to the .65.
- Whisper-based scoring, no live audio retained
- 50+ readback scenarios at launch — IFR, VFR, runway ops
- Two-tier grading: keyword match plus exact-phrase rank
M4◇ On the roadmap
Career Tracks
Facility-shaped curated tracks for working controllers approaching transfer or recurrent training.
- Tower-only, TRACON, En Route Center variants
- Custom retention target per track
- Recurrent topics refreshed each .65 change package
§ 03 · Method
Modern spaced repetition. Public-domain source. Original questions.
FSRS-6
Schedules to a retention target, not a fixed interval.
The Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler models difficulty, stability, and retrievability of every card you’ve seen, then schedules so each review lands at your chosen retention probability — 90% by default, dialable per deck.
Source
Cited to the paragraph, never to a textbook.
Every card cites its anchor in JO 7110.65BB, the Pilot/Controller Glossary, JO 7400.11, or the AIM — all works of the U.S. Government, all public domain. No commercial textbooks, no scraped Quizlet, no paywalled corpora.
Authoring
Original questions, reviewed by hand.
Distractors are crafted to test the boundary cases that bite real trainees in real block-tests. Every question is reviewed against its citation before it ships, and corrections propagate to your study queue automatically.
We never publish or paraphrase Academy block-test items. Those are For Official Use Only and stay that way. ModernATC tests the same material, not the same items.
§ 04 · PricingFounder presale · 100 seats
Priced for a career, not a textbook.
The Founder’s License is the one-time-payment anchor for the first 100 customers. Everyone else picks Trainee or Pro after public launch.
Pro
T2$199/year
or $39 / mo
Everything in Trainee, plus Phraseology Pro audio and Career Tracks.
- Everything in Trainee
- Phraseology Pro audio drills
- Tower / TRACON / Center career tracks
- Priority email support
Founder's License
T★$99 once
Lifetime · 100 seats
One-time payment. Pro features for life. Three years of updates baked in.
- Lifetime access — no renewals
- Everything in Pro
- First in line for closed beta
- Founder badge in-app
Institution licenses for AT-CTI programs available on request: partners@modernatc.com.
§ 05 · FAQ
Frequently asked
Is this affiliated with the FAA?
No. ModernATC is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration. We cite FAA documents that are works of the U.S. Government and therefore in the public domain.
Where do the questions come from?
Original wording, written and reviewed against the cited paragraph in the public-domain source documents — JO 7110.65BB, the Pilot/Controller Glossary, JO 7400.11, and the AIM. We do not reproduce, paraphrase, or include FAA Academy block-test items, and we do not scrape commercial textbooks.
What is FSRS-6?
The Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler, version 6. It models difficulty, stability, and retrievability of every card and schedules the next review so the probability of recall lands at your target retention. Default 90%; you can dial it.
Who is this for?
Post-TOL trainees waiting for a Class Convening Date, AT-CTI students, and certified controllers preparing for transfer or recurrent training. The .65 question bank is the same; what changes per audience is the deck mix and the retention target.
What is the Founder's License?
$99 one-time, lifetime access, 100 seats. Includes everything in the Pro tier and three years of content updates baked in. Once the 100 seats sell, the Founder's License goes away.
Is there a refund policy?
Founder's License: 14-day, no-questions-asked refund. Subscriptions: cancel any time, prorated to the end of the current period.
Can institutions buy seats?
Yes. Standard and Enhanced AT-CTI programs can request institutional licenses (typically 25–100 seats with instructor analytics) at partners@modernatc.com.