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GroundScholar
AI ground school that cites the real FAR and AIM
AI ground school for FAA pilots. An AI examiner walks the full ACS oral exam, voice or text, with every cite click-throughing to the live FAR or AIM. Plus AKTR remediation: paste failed Learning Statement codes, get a targeted drill on what you missed.
Hi PH.
I'm Aleksandr. GroundScholar started as a sibling to CaptainsGround, an AI training product I already run for the captain side of the industry. Working on CaptainsGround taught me the hard part of building anything in aviation training: regulations move, examiners phrase the same question a hundred different ways, and any AI that paraphrases the rules instead of citing them will eventually get someone a failed checkride.
Student pilots kept asking whether CaptainsGround would work for their FAA Private Pilot oral. Technically yes — but the corpus, the ACS standards, and the grading rubric are completely different from captain-side training. So I rebuilt the engine for the Part 61/91 side, kept the same citation discipline, and called it GroundScholar.
The rule we carried over from CaptainsGround: every answer the AI gives cites the actual FAA text. FAR, AIM, PHAK, AFH, IFH, and AC 00-6 are ingested as the live corpus, and the AI cites verbatim. Click any cite, you see the regulation. If we don't have a clean citation, the AI says "I don't have a reg for that" instead of inventing one.
A few AI-examiner products have launched in the last year — ChatDPE, CheckrideAI, Rotate's tutor, Sporty's ChatCFI in their 2026 release — and most do the conversational part fine. Where they consistently fall down is citation. They confidently paraphrase 14 CFR sections, sometimes hallucinating requirements that don't exist. A DPE who hears "the FAR says X" and then opens the FAR to a different X has failed you.
One feature worth flagging because I haven't seen it elsewhere: AKTR remediation. If you fail an FAA written, you get back "Learning Statement Codes" for the questions you missed. We open-sourced a mapping from each LSC to PPL topics — paste your codes and it builds a drill on exactly what you missed. Most courseware ignores this since the FAA is phasing LSCs out for ACS codes, but plenty of recent test reports still carry them.
What I want from PH: break it. If you find a wrong citation, a hallucinated reg, or weirdness in voice mode, drop it in a comment and I'll fix it today and credit you in the changelog. Voice mode is the part I'm least confident in.
Everything free, later voice mode might be limited. I'll be in the thread.
About GroundScholar on Product Hunt
“AI ground school that cites the real FAR and AIM”
GroundScholar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #151 on the daily leaderboard. AI ground school for FAA pilots. An AI examiner walks the full ACS oral exam, voice or text, with every cite click-throughing to the live FAR or AIM. Plus AKTR remediation: paste failed Learning Statement codes, get a targeted drill on what you missed.
On the analytics side, GroundScholar competes within Education and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 547.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how GroundScholar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted GroundScholar?
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