About
The Online Radio Navigation Simulator
Radio Navigator is an online radio navigation training simulator, a tool for student pilots to learn and practise instrument navigation procedures in the browser. Designed on years of instructional experience, it combines realistic instruments, procedurally generated training scenarios, and guided lessons to help pilots master radio navigation before they get in the aircraft.
What Makes It Different
Accessible, Dynamic, Training focussed.
The way to learn radio navigation
Learn and consolidate radio navigation on the ground, bring those skills to the cockpit. Why pay £500+ per hour to learn how to track an RMI, when you can do as much as you want for £9.99 a month?
Progressive, dynamic training scenarios with live guidance and automatic debriefing. Turn up for your simulator sessions or flights having already mastered the skills.
Accessible
No complicated setup, open the app on any device, choose your mode, start flying.
We know training is a busy time, and setting up a sim takes a lot of effort. With Radio Navigator, all you need to do is move a few sliders and you're training.
Dynamic
Procedurally generated scenarios - endless opportunity to practise.
Every scenario is procedurally generated with randomised wind and other parameters, controllable by you. The difficulty adapts as you improve, so you're always practising at the right level.
Training focussed
Designed with one goal: To learn and consolidate the essential skills.
Use Learn mode to Learn the basic skills, then practise infinitely randomly generated scenarios in Training or make your own with Just Fly.
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Rory H Bennett Aviation
Flight Instructor · Airline Pilot · Courseware Designer
Background: The Developer
8 years of instructional experience, 5 years of airline flying. Experienced with everything from delivering ATPL Theory to teaching Radio Navigation on a B737 and developing integrated courses.
PPL and Aerobatic FI
After years of part time PPL flying gained CPL, FI certificate. Instructed PPL & Aerobatics.
Two major European airlines
Began flying for the airlines with a regional carrier flying Dash 8 Q400s, later moved to charter on the B737.
Bringing airline experience to instruction
After a season of airline flying I returned to instructing, bringing my airline experience to deliver Integrated & Modular CPL, IR, UPRT and eventually MEP, ME CPL & IR and MPL training. Now I split my time equally between flying the line and instructing.
Course design, training material production
Produced courseware and helped design Integrated & Modular courses for some of the UK's largest ATOs. Everything from basic training in PA28s/DA40s to Radio Navigation in a B737!
Making Radio Navigator
Taking everything I've learned from years of teaching and putting it into software. Radio Navigator is the tool I wished existed for years of instructing... So I went ahead and made it!
How Radio Navigator Came To Be
Radio Navigator has been a project existing in my mind for many years. What finally convinced me to get started was two-fold:
One, I got REALLY tired of drawing HSIs on whiteboards.
Two, I had created a small YouTube, Instagram, TikTok to share some flying knowledge (perhaps you've heard of me...?) and needed a dynamic way of animating HSIs.
One day on a long drive the idea, and more importantly the maths came to me to automate the HSI animation in After Effects, so all I had to do was drag and rotate a little airplane around (cub.png). I rushed home early (sorry Mum and Dad) and got writing. Then I realised, if I can do it in an ae script, I can probably make a flight simulator! Now here we are.
Time and again instructing I've found students just don't have enough time to practise the basics of single needle tracking, holding, procedural work, and wished I had something like Radio Navigator to send them back to practise with. As a good friend of mine once said "the majority of my IR was learned on my phone." But I think we can do better than just a HSI simulator. Every lesson I taught I kept thinking of new features to add, new modes, new ways to help student pilots succeed.
To set Radio Navigator apart I began working on procedural, dynamic training modes and grading. Now, with "Learn" mode, I can deliver the basic methodology step by step and give people the tools they need to succeed.
Radio Navigator already stands apart from other products available with these training modes, but I'm not done yet. This is a passion project for me, and I fully intend to keep working adding more modes, lessons and features. Let me know what you want to see next!
Away From the Desk
When I'm not working on Radio Navigator, instructing, or flying the line, I'm usually outdoors. Hiking, sailing, kayaking, or just flying for fun. I part-own and maintain a homebuilt Vans RV-4, which is a great motivator to keep working on selling this app, as much as anything else.
I also just can't stop making ridiculous things. Past projects include a GPWS themed reverse parking sensor for the car, a home radar station synced to my calendar to track when my girlfriend is inbound, a custom in-aircraft ADS-B receiver, a heads-up display, various software tools, and restoring old aircraft instruments back to life for the classroom.
If you've got questions, want to say hello, or just want to tell me what you think of Radio Navigator, I'd genuinely like to hear from you.