47
BU Score
Emerging
Rod's Private Pilot Handbook
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Rod's Private Pilot Handbook is an iOS app from Rod Machado in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.4★ across 5 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 47: Emerging (early traction worth watching). For a Food & Drink app, that means early traction worth watching.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 7 of 7 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Paid app ($49.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.4★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (5 ratings)METRIC | −$300 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 149 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12+🔖 v2.7🔄 updated 3mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Free🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📝 About this app
Rod Machado’s Private Pilot Handbook – Second Edition, 626 full color pages
Flying is fun, and with Rod Machado’s Private Pilot Handbook, learning about flying is now fun, as well.
If you want to learn to fly, or even just learn about what makes a plane fly, you’ll find this lavishly illustrated, fast-paced book to be the best available guide. Written in a clear and witty style, the Private Pilot Handbooks contains more than 1,200 illustrations and photos that are a standalone education about why we can fly.… View full description on the official store →
Flying is fun, and with Rod Machado’s Private Pilot Handbook, learning about flying is now fun, as well.
If you want to learn to fly, or even just learn about what makes a plane fly, you’ll find this lavishly illustrated, fast-paced book to be the best available guide. Written in a clear and witty style, the Private Pilot Handbooks contains more than 1,200 illustrations and photos that are a standalone education about why we can fly.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.7
Book has been updated.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Rod's Private Pilot Handbook
- Developer
- Rod Machado
- Bundle ID
- com.rodmachado.pvt-handbook
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.rodmachado.com
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- Description
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Revenue
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- ML model estimate / mo
- $1.4K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
- All-time revenue
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Founder
- Name
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews10 latest · avg 4.8★ · 80.0% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★8 (80%)
4★2 (20%)
3★0 (0%)
2★0 (0%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: great ×8 recommend ×2 excellent ×1 fantastic ×1 perfect ×1Complaints: hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great book
This is a great app and a fantastic read. I have my PPL and have read the Jep textbook and the FAA manuals. While I actually enjoyed reading them, now that I've come across Rod's book I realize there were a few technical areas of …
★★★★★ A splendid app/book, regardless of your experience.
I've read Rod's book in its "physical" form, and I have to say, it is a Grade-A "must have" for anyone interested in aviation. The book covers so much material in such an interesting way. If you are looking to …
Top negative
★★★★☆ It’s Good But...
I have enjoyed reading this book so far as I’m just starting out on my Private license. It’s full of good information. There’s only one thing I wish I could do with this and that is the ability to highlight certain passages that I want to r…
★★★★☆ Just like the book...
This is an electronic version of the current edition, which I have in hard cover (only that is signed by the author). As far as content goes, it is the same as the physical book, page numbers and all, and it is a great alternative to the t…
📈Ratings growth5 ratings+400% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (12 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (37 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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