We believe ATC services should be useful (and fun) for all skill levels. Student pilot mode makes ATC A little more verbose, and a little more patient, to give you a little extra help. For example, if you're departing under flight following, you'll normally be told "Contact Departure". (You already wrote down your departure frequency, right? so you don't need it.). However, if student pilot mode is enabled, you'll be told, "Contact departure on xyz.ab"). A little extra help.
Similar for situations like a clearance readback. Normally you are expected to know that you need to read-back the full clearance. With student-pilot mode enabled, it will end with "Please read back your clearance". Another example is that in student-pilot mode, controllers will mention the run-up and such.
Student pilot mode also causes controllers to speak a little slower.
It's a setting in the app. BUT ALSO.. if you don't have that enabled, and you tell ATC at ANY POINT during your flight that you are a student pilot, it will enable that mode for you. Example: Ground, Skyhawk 123AZ is a student pilot at the general aviation ramp, ready to taxi with information golf.
Student pilot mode is enabled BY DEFAULT. If you don't want it on, you need to turn it off in the app settings.
We're open to any and all opportunities to make "student pilot" mode even better. Our goal is to continue to make ATC LESS verbose than it is right now, unless you're in student pilot mode.
Experienced pilots definitely will NOT want this on.
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