PocketDPE Terms of Use

Effective date: October 13, 2026.

These terms are an agreement between you and London Moren, the individual developer who makes and runs PocketDPE ("we", "us"). They cover the PocketDPE app, its server and its website. Please read them with our Privacy Policy and Refund Policy.

1. Agreeing to these terms

By creating an account or using PocketDPE, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app. Your download from the App Store is also governed by Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the "Apple EULA"); these terms add to it, and if the two conflict about the app itself, the Apple EULA wins.

2. Who can use PocketDPE

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use PocketDPE only with the permission of a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms for you.
• The "DPE from hell" examiner (Cornelius) uses strong profanity and adult humor. He is for adults only: the app asks you to confirm you are 17 or older before he is available.

3. Your account

Keep your sign-in details to yourself and tell us at support@pocketdpe.org if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what happens under your account. One account is for one person.

4. Subscriptions, free trials and billing

• Purchases go through Apple. PocketDPE Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through Apple's In-App Purchase. Apple charges the payment method on your Apple ID; the price, billing period and any free trial are shown on the purchase screen before you buy.
• Automatic renewal. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the then-current price, unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the period ends. Apple charges the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
• Free trials. If a plan includes a free trial, the subscription starts charging when the trial ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends. A trial is offered once per Apple ID.
• Cancelling. Cancel anytime in Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions on your iPhone or iPad, or from Settings › Subscription › Manage Subscription in the app. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you have paid for. Deleting the app or your PocketDPE account does not cancel a subscription.
• Price changes. If the price of your subscription changes, Apple will tell you in advance and, where the law requires it, ask for your agreement.
• Refunds are handled by Apple. See our Refund Policy.

5. What PocketDPE is, and what it is not

PocketDPE is a study aid. It lets you rehearse the oral part of an FAA practical test with an AI examiner and gives you practice feedback.

• PocketDPE is not approved, endorsed or affiliated with the Federal Aviation Administration or any examiner.
• The examiners in the app are fictional AI characters. They are not Designated Pilot Examiners, flight instructors or FAA inspectors, and nothing they say is an FAA decision.
• PocketDPE is not flight instruction and does not replace ground or flight training with a certificated flight instructor, an instructor's endorsement, or your actual practical test.
• Grades, debriefs and the Readiness Score describe how you did in practice. They are not a prediction or guarantee of the result of your checkride.
• AI can be wrong. The examiner's questions, answers, grades and explanations are generated with AI and may be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Always check what you learn against official sources: 14 CFR, the Aeronautical Information Manual, the Airman Certification Standards, FAA handbooks, and your aircraft's Pilot's Operating Handbook.
• Nothing in the app is for use in real flight operations, flight planning or navigation. Charts, weather and procedures shown in the app are for training only.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use PocketDPE for anything unlawful, or to harass, threaten or abuse anyone;
• try to get around the app's limits, security or payment system, or access another person's account or data;
• copy, scrape or bulk-download the question banks or other content, or use the app to build a competing product;
• reverse-engineer the app or our server, except where the law allows it;
• overload or disrupt our server, for example with automated requests.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules.

7. Your content

Your spoken answers, their transcripts and any feedback you send stay yours. You give us permission to store, copy and process them (including through the service providers listed in our Privacy Policy, such as OpenAI) only as needed to run PocketDPE for you, keep your history, and fix and improve the app. If you send us suggestions, we may use them without owing you anything.

8. Our content and other people's content

The app, its examiners, its question banks, its design and its software belong to us or our licensors and are protected by law. We give you a personal, non-transferable license to use them in the app for your own training while these terms apply.

Some content comes from others. FAA regulations, charts, figures, handbooks and the Airman Certification Standards, and National Weather Service data, are works of the U.S. government and are in the public domain. Fonts, icons and open-source software are used under their own licenses, listed in Acknowledgements. Names such as "FAA" belong to their owners and are used only to describe what the app helps you prepare for.

9. Changes and availability

We may change, add or remove features, questions or examiners, and we may stop offering PocketDPE. We do not promise the app will always be available or free of errors. If we stop offering a subscription you have paid for, you can ask Apple for a refund of the unused part.

10. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, PocketDPE is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Some places do not allow these exclusions, so some of them may not apply to you.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, a failed checkride, or costs of retesting or retraining, arising from your use of PocketDPE. Our total liability for any claim about PocketDPE is limited to the greater of the amount you paid for PocketDPE in the 12 months before the claim and US $50. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

12. Ending your use

You can stop using PocketDPE and delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms or if we stop offering the app. Sections 5, 7 (the part about feedback), 8, 10, 11, 13 and 14 continue after your use ends.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and of the U.S. state in which the operator resides, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer, you keep any protection the law of the place you live gives you and cannot waive.

14. Apple

You and we agree that these terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for PocketDPE or its content, has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it, and is not responsible for any claims about it (including product liability, legal compliance or intellectual-property claims); we are, to the extent these terms and the law provide. If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you may tell Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the fullest extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. We will change the effective date above and publish the new version in the app and on our website. If you keep using PocketDPE after that, the new terms apply.

16. Contact

PocketDPE is operated by London Moren. Questions about these terms: support@pocketdpe.org.