Sporty's Pilot Training Negative Reviews

Sporty's Pilot Training App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Sporty's Pilot Training app received 11 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Sporty's Pilot Training? Can you share your negative thoughts about sporty's pilot training?

Sporty's Pilot Training for Negative User Reviews

✓ PriceI Online downloaded the app because it’s free and now it’s for £199 extremely disappointing.Sameerj1Version: 2.6.1

✓ Just okay- so farI downloaded this about 2 weeks ago and have completed about 1/2 of the course. I was following everything fine until about the 25% way through the program, I am guessing because it was fairly simple stuff. When things get more complicated they really rush through the charts and explanations and might cover 5 topics in a 8-10 minute video. It is almost like they are assuming that you are already exposed to a decent amount of the IFR language, charts and acronyms. I constantly find myself going back on the video to try to figure out what he is talking about. Personally, I feel that a 17 minute video with many new introductions is completely overwhelming. I am taking this course because I am a novice and do not know IFR and the charts. I also purchased the private pilot program 2 years ago and found it to be better and it didn't just whip through the explanations and terminology's. I am not impressed for the price they charged. Wish I had tried one of the cheaper ones first..L PogoVersion: 2.3.3

✓ Desktop site is much betterThis app is fine for what it is. I would say the best functionality of the app is allowing one to download the videos for offline use. Overall the desktop browser site is 99% of the time what I use just because the tools for studying tend to be much better. Also you can click to watch specific parts of a video pertaining to a question on the desktop site. The app is good but could use some work and I find myself gravitating to the desktop browser version even when on the iPad..WithnohandlebarsVersion: 8.1.2

✓ It would be great if I could tell how I’m doingI like sportys. With their program I got a perfect score on my Private pilot test. But I was mostly using the desktop site. I would’ve used the mobile app but you can’t see your stats on testing and categories like you can on the desktop website. It only shows how you performed in each category on that specific practice session. This makes it really hard to see what areas you’re improving in and which ones you aren’t. Also it doesn’t seem to accurately sync with what you’ve done on the desktop site..AddcriticVersion: 5.2

✓ Video downloading is an exercise in frustration, hosed my iCloud backupsFor whatever reason the developers of this app store any videos downloaded for offline use in the app’s “documents” directory, meaning that they’ll be automatically be backed up to iCloud as part of iOS’s iCloud backup feature. This is not only a waste of iCloud storage space (I can download the videos again via the app if necessary), but in my case it prevented iOS from backing up altogether as uploading 6GB of instrument training videos over my slow DSL connection would take an eternity. I’m very lucky that nothing happened to my iPad in the weeks between downloading the videos and iOS notifying me of the lack of completed backups, as it very likely would have resulted in losing important data. Additionally, the offline download functionality is poorly implemented. Want to download all videos in a given section? The app will begin downloading all videos at once, leading to it taking an eternity for even a single video to complete. What’s more, if you switch away from the app for more than a moment or two, the video downloads are interrupted and you’ll need to manually start them again. And start again they will. Even if the video was 90% downloaded, an interrupted download will start over from scratch. This means that on all but the fastest connections you’re forced to sit and keep your device awake to let the download complete, lest you be forced to start the download over again..BdashnzVersion: 1.1.1

✓ The content is great! App experience is severely lacking.The online tests and videos match my experience in the private pilot with jeppesen. This review is not about the content. This review is about the download ability in the app. If you have no problems being tethered to WiFi. If you can afford to download 185+mb videos over your cellular connection the app is great! However if you like to download videos at home to take on travel, the functionality is severely lacking. The video will start downloading, but they take forever to download. If you switch apps, your downloads resets to zero and stops when you switch back. The download functionality is rendered useless by this. I’m doing this on a 15Mbps connection so it’s not the internet connection..ScourchedVersion: 1.6.6

✓ Would be 4 stars but…Really well done training videos and practice quizzes. Main problem with the app is the fact that there’s no option to have the videos auto play one after the other. I drive a lot for work so this is pretty much the only time I can listen to the videos, but it’s very disruptive to have to reopen my phone to click the “play next video button”. I had sent an email to customer service when I first purchased the $200 PPL course, but it didn’t get me anywhere. Hopefully sportys app techs get this message and implement an auto play option for continuous video play..WohnetteVersion: 1.6.1

✓ Not sure why all the good reviewsI bought the private pilot course based on all the good reviews. Although I enjoyed watching the videos (I watched all of them), they don’t even come Close in preparing you for the test questions. I feel I am basically going through the questions and learning as I go. Which is difficult because there are not good explainations when you get them wrong. Just a general description and reference to a chapter in a book. Not a page number. So it makes cross referencing time consuming and difficult. There has to be a better course out there..Patm95Version: 7.1.9

✓ The App Interferes with Laptop LoginSince I open the course in my app, I can no longer launch the course on my laptop. I am trying to do some studying tonight with my laptop, but it keeps spinning for 2 hour now and still not able to access any content. It stuck at the launching page. This is very frustrating now that I close my app, restart my laptop, reboot my internet and yet still not able to access the content on my laptop..Finding a Nickname to ComplainVersion: 5.7.1

✓ Buggy ChromecastThe Chromecast streaming functions are extremely buggy and frustrating, especially trying to finish one video and go on to the next. Even trying to submit this review in-app, the text color is white on a white background making it impossible to actually see the review I am currently authoring. Perhaps because my iPad settings are dark mode but the Sporty’s app doesn’t support that? Grr..SatorsVersion: 4.9.1

✓ IOS app lags web version :(Does exactly what you expect it to do and does it well. My only gripe is that updates to the IOS app test questions appear to fall behind updates to the web version test questions, at least for the remote pilot test training. I’ve emailed to let them know about not having any Category questions but have received no response and no updates to the iOS app. More consistent and timely updates would make this a 5 star app easily..BfunkwaVersion: 5.9.4

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