RPL & PPL Exam Prep Australia Help

RPL & PPL Exam Prep Australia helps you practise for the Australian Recreational Pilot Licence (RPL) and Private Pilot Licence (PPL) aeroplane theory exams. Here are answers to common questions. How the app handles your data is described in the Privacy Policy, and the rules for using it in the Terms of Use. If you still need help, email us (see Contact at the end).

About the questions

• Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA). The practice questions are written by us. They are not questions from CASA exams, and the real exam may differ.
• Questions follow the knowledge standards in Schedule 3 of the Part 61 Manual of Standards. Answers and explanations are written by us from public documents: the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998, the Part 91 Manual of Standards and the Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 for rules, and the FAA Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge and Airplane Flying Handbook for physical principles only (aerodynamics, engines, instruments, weather physics, human factors). Where they differ, Australian law applies.
• Every explanation quotes its source with the document and the regulation, section or page. Where a quote comes from a table, a readable version of that table row is shown with it. The full list of sources and their licences is in Settings › Sources.
• Some questions ask you to type a whole number, as in the real exam.

Free week and plans

• Every feature is free for 7 days from the first time you open the app on a device.
• After the free week, starting practice, review, bookmarked questions or a new practice exam needs a plan: a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase, sold through the App Store or Google Play. The plans appear when you start one of these.
• To see the plans at any time: Settings › Subscription (the last section) › View plans.
• Without a plan, your progress, your past exam results and their explanations stay available, and a practice exam you already started can be finished.
• To restore a purchase on a new or reset device, or after reinstalling: Settings › Subscription › Restore purchases. Use the same Apple Account or Google account you bought with.
• To cancel or change a subscription:
  • iPhone and iPad: Settings app › your name › Subscriptions › RPL & PPL Exam Prep Australia. Apple's guide: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118428
  • Android: Google Play app › your profile picture › Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions › RPL & PPL Exam Prep Australia. Google's guide: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7018481
• Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google under their own rules:
  • Apple: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118223
  • Google Play: https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2479637
• A Lifetime purchase keeps working offline. A subscription keeps working offline for up to 45 days after the app last confirmed it with the store.
• If your payment is pending, the plan starts when the store completes it.

Practice exams

• RPL practice exams have 40 questions in 2 hours, and PPL practice exams have 60 questions in 3 hours 30 minutes, with 70% to pass. CASA does not publish the number of questions in its exams, so these numbers are our own choice. Questions are drawn from every topic area in proportion.
• There is no feedback until you submit. You can flag questions and check all your answers on the review screen before you submit.
• If you leave an exam, your answers are saved and the timer keeps running. If time runs out while the app is closed, the exam is submitted when you open it again. Unanswered questions count as wrong.
• After 2 full-length practice exams, the Study tab shows Ready or Not yet for that exam. It is based on your practice results in this app and does not predict your CASA exam result.

Review and bookmarks

• A question you miss comes back for review the next day. Answer it correctly on its review day and it comes back after 3 days, then after 7 days, and then it is done.
• Practice sets have 20 questions: due reviews first, then new ones. Questions due today are also listed in Review.
• Tap the bookmark at the top of a question to save it. Saved questions are listed in Bookmarks.

Reporting a problem with a question

• On a practice question, tap the report button at the top of the screen, next to the bookmark. Choose a reason, add details if you like, and tap Write email.
• This opens your own email app with the question ID, the reason, your note, the start of the question text and the app and question bank versions filled in. Nothing is sent until you press send. If no email app is found, the app copies our email address instead.
• Please do not include questions you saw in an actual CASA exam. Copying or passing on exam content is prohibited (Civil Aviation Regulations 1988, regulations 298A and 298B).
• Corrected questions arrive with app updates.

Language

• The CASA exams are in English, so the app is in English (Australian spelling and units: hPa, feet, knots, kilograms, litres).

Offline and no account

• Questions and explanations are built into the app, so you can study without an internet connection. There is no account, no sign-in and no third-party ads. The app shows cards for other apps by the same developer when you open it and at the top of Settings.
• Your progress is stored only on this device. It is not backed up or moved to a new phone, so a new device starts with a fresh study record. A plan you bought moves with your Apple Account or Google account: use Restore purchases.

Resetting progress

• Settings › Your data › Reset progress deletes your answers, bookmarks, review schedule and exam results on this device, including an exam in progress, and the record of your problem reports. It cannot be undone.
• Resetting does not restart the free week and does not affect a plan you bought.

Usage statistics

To help improve the app, it can send statistics about which screens and features are used (Google Analytics for Firebase). Your answers, notes and name are never sent. In the European Economic Area and Switzerland the app asks first. You can turn this off at any time in Settings › Preferences › Send app usage statistics. Details are in the Privacy Policy.