PASS
FIRST TIME.
A full-stack, current-generation platform for the regulatory gateway every European airline pilot must pass — the EASA ATPL theory exams.
The content bar is already met — we clear it.
Then we win on everything incumbents neglected.
A large, structurally growing market served almost entirely by incumbents running aging web software. That gap is the opening — and our edge is the combination: nobody else pairs a top-tier content bank with this engineering and engagement stack.
Not a cycle.
A 20-year tailwind.
Pilot demand is driven by fleet growth and retirements — and in EASA jurisdictions, every new pilot must pass the ATPL theory exams. Exam-prep is a non-optional, recurring step in the training funnel.
A question bank is a perishable asset.
EASA exams draw from the European Central Question Bank — refreshed every year. Candidates need the current set plus crowd-sourced reports of what actually appeared. This rewards strong content operations and punishes static products.
The live pool every EASA candidate is examined against — maintained on an annual cycle. Latest revision: ECQB 2026.
EASA introduces roughly fifteen hundred new questions each year — the bank is never finished.
A continuous review obligation that static, rarely-updated competitors structurally cannot keep pace with.
Your cockpit for
ATPL mastery.
A real exam engine — not a screenshot, not a video. Study and Exam modes, real-time timer, flag & color-code, save-and-resume, and a 100-question navigator. Built on Angular 20 with Signals reactivity.
Refer to the figure. Which sketch correctly depicts the change in the thrust-required curve when density altitude is decreased?
Bigger than the
flagship paid banks.
27,000+ questions across 13 EASA subjects — larger than the live banks of both best-known paid rivals (ATPL Questions ≈ 20,848; Aviationexam ≈ 22,455) — sourced with a Lufthansa head instructor.
Users report which questions appeared in real EASA sittings; the system auto-verifies at community consensus and tags by country and date — a proprietary intelligence layer on real exam patterns.
Rivals sell a bank.
We sell a habit.
A full Duolingo-grade engagement loop: XP that never punishes, ten aviation ranks from Cadet to Captain, streaks with freeze safety-nets, 27 achievements, and all-time / weekly / monthly leaderboards. No major ATPL competitor ships this.
T. Nakamura
—
17,520
XP
A. Okafor
—
15,290
XP
Built to perform.
Candidates enter an exam date and pace; the system generates a day-by-day plan, weights weak subjects more heavily, and auto-redistributes the workload when they fall behind. Background workers maintain plan state nightly.
Understand why.
Every answer carries an academic-grade explanation: key formula, step-by-step working, and a dedicated "why every other option is wrong" section. Captain-verified, community-rated 1–5 stars, and 2026-aligned.
Refer to the figure. What magnetic heading is the aircraft on, if the deviation on this heading is -2°?
Magnetic Heading = Compass Heading + Deviation (algebraic)
MH = 090° + (-2°) = 088° (M)
Built for clarity.
High-resolution engine cutaways, instrument schematics and chart overlays — interactive, not static. An E6B flight computer and a diagram annotation editor built on the Konva and Fabric.js canvas libraries. Competitors largely serve flat images.
Measure precisely.
Aim for 100.
Tracking across all 13 subjects with a GitHub-style activity heatmap, accuracy trends and a composite exam-readiness score — 0.4·Accuracy + 0.3·Coverage + 0.2·Weakness + 0.1·Consistency — benchmarked to the real 75% EASA pass bar.
Closer to fintech than legacy EdTech.
Frontend · Angular 20
- Standalone + OnPush, Signals + RxJS, ~140 components
- Tailwind 4 · ng-zorro-antd 20 · custom design tokens
- Chart.js · Konva 10 · Fabric.js 6.7 · Three.js
- Firebase (@angular/fire) · fluent HTTP + interceptor chain
Backend · NestJS 10
- 35+ domain modules · Prisma 6.16 (19-file schema)
- PostgreSQL 16 · Redis (ioredis) cache, per-resource TTLs
- BullMQ 5 — 8+ workers · Socket.io 4.8 real-time
- Prometheus metrics · Winston · 90-day audit logging
Auth · Payments · Apps
- Passport: Firebase + JWT + local · Argon2 hashing
- Stripe + PayPal · webhooks & subscriptions
- AWS S3 + CloudFront signed URLs · Puppeteer 24 PDF
- Admin (Angular 20) + Mobile (Expo 54 / RN 0.81)
Security & exam integrity
- AES-256-GCM response encryption · CSRF double-submit
- Helmet · CORS whitelist · rate limiting · encrypted IP audit
- Client probes: automation, tampering, DOM injection
- Server scoring: log → warn → throttle → invalidate
The market sells a question bank. We sell the whole platform.
| Dimension | Pilot 100 | Aviationexam | ATPL Questions | Bristol BGS | Airhead | atplGS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Question bank | 27,000+ | ~22,455 | ~20,848 | 15,000+ | 50,000+ agg. | 14,000+ |
| Modern UI / UX | Current-gen | Good | Good | Good | Excellent | Fair |
| Gamification | Full | — | — | — | Partial | — |
| Exam integrity | Probes + scoring | "Last seen" | — | CQB align | "Last seen" | "Last 200" |
| Analytics / readiness | Composite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Predictive | Basic |
| B2B / ATO LMS | Roadmap | Mature | — | Yes | — | — |
| Update freshness | Ops suite built for it | Daily | Periodic | Regular | Weekly/daily | Periodic |
Competitor figures are vendor-/reseller-stated and may shift. "Roadmap" = not yet shipped by P100, stated honestly. Sources in full report, Appendix B.
Our edge is the combination.
Engineering & UX
Angular 20 + Signals + design system + canvas tools — a generation ahead. The most common migration trigger in review data: "this feels modern."
Engagement
The only platform in the set with a full XP / rank / streak / achievement / leaderboard loop. We sell a daily habit, not a static bank.
Exam integrity
Probe-based anti-scraping plus server scoring protects the IP and signals legitimacy to flight schools. Rivals offer, at most, "last seen" filters.
Content freshness
A 16+-module admin suite with in-app editing and automatic cache invalidation makes continuous ECQB updates operationally cheap.
Security posture
CSRF, AES-256-GCM payload encryption and encrypted-IP auditing exceed the session-cookie norm — a differentiator in B2B procurement.
Content scale
27,000+ questions exceeds both flagship paid banks, sourced with Lufthansa-instructor expertise. The bar is cleared.
Aim for 100.
A top-tier content bank paired with engineering, engagement and integrity the incumbents never built. The hard part is already done — and the moat is the combination: nobody else pairs this content depth with this engineering and engagement stack.