Know what your pilot license will actually cost.

PilotBound is the flight training app built for student pilots on iPhone and iPad. It projects what your certificate will actually cost and tracks every dollar against that projection, while it follows every FAR 61 hour to your checkride. You can also get a free, no-login estimate of your cost right now with our online estimator. Built by a CFI for student pilots in primary training.

Every flight you log carries its cost, pre-filled from your aircraft and instructor rates, and PilotBound totals it against a live projection of your cost to the certificate. You see how much you have spent, how much is left, and where the money went across aircraft rental, instruction, and one-time costs like the written test and checkride fee. The projection gets sharper as you log real flights, so the number becomes yours instead of an average.

Yes. Each aircraft you fly keeps its own hourly rate, so a Cessna 152 and a Cirrus are costed correctly. Each certificate from Private through ATP is tracked as its own journey with its own cost, so you can see exactly what your Private cost and what your Instrument is running, without lumping it all into one lifetime total.

Yes. Every flight ladders into the real FAR 61 or Part 141 requirements for the certificate you are working toward, including total time, PIC, solo, cross-country, night, instrument, approaches, and landings. It supports the full ladder from Private Pilot to Instrument, Commercial, CFI, CFII, and ATP, and milestones like first solo and first cross-country are flagged automatically as you log flights.

You log each flight in a few taps: pick the aircraft, add your hours, and PilotBound pre-fills the cost from your saved rates. From there your totals, FAR 61 progress, and cost projection all update automatically, so nothing slips through the cracks.

Yes. PilotBound is a personal planning and tracking tool, not a social network, so your cost and training data are private to you. Nothing you log, your spending, your hours, or your progress, is shown to anyone else or published anywhere.

They solve different problems. ForeFlight Logbook and LogTen Pro are powerful logbooks for working pilots who already know how to log time. PilotBound is built for student pilots, and it projects your cost to the certificate and tracks every dollar against it, which a logbook does not. Logging your flights is just how PilotBound learns your numbers, not the product itself.

Yes. PilotBound is free for student pilots on iPhone and iPad. There is no subscription required to log flights, track your cost to the certificate, or follow your Part 61 progress.

Yes, completely. Build your plan with no login at all; it saves in your browser. When you want it on more than one device, a free account keeps it synced, and the PilotBound app picks up the same plan automatically. No subscription, no paid tier, no upsell.

PilotBound is built for individual student pilots, and that is who it serves today. There is no flight school dashboard, no CFI account, and no feature that links an instructor to a student's data. A CFI can of course use it the same way a student would, to see exactly how training costs add up.