56
BU Score
Solid
Rod’s IFR Pilot's Handbook
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Rod’s IFR Pilot's Handbook is an iOS app from Rod Machado in the Food & Drink category, currently rated 4.2★ across 6 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 56: Solid (established niche player). For a Food & Drink app, that means established niche player.
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 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 | |
| Pre-traction phase (6 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 →💾 253 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 12.0+🔖 v2.7🔄 updated 3mo ago🌐 EN📂 Food & Drink💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2010 (15y old)
📝 About this app
Rod Machado’s Instrument Pilot’s Handbook – Second Edition, 626 full color pages
Rod Machado's Instrument Pilot's Handbook is a teaching tour de force that takes pilots through the complex world of instrument flying.
Long known for his unique ability to transform difficult concepts into simple-yet-complete explanations, Machado takes both new and experienced IFR pilots on a guided tour of instrument flying, from the basics through subtleties that even many professional pilots will find useful. He turns complexity into curiosity.… View full description on the official store →
Rod Machado's Instrument Pilot's Handbook is a teaching tour de force that takes pilots through the complex world of instrument flying.
Long known for his unique ability to transform difficult concepts into simple-yet-complete explanations, Machado takes both new and experienced IFR pilots on a guided tour of instrument flying, from the basics through subtleties that even many professional pilots will find useful. He turns complexity into curiosity.… View full description on the official store →
🆕 What's New · v2.7
The book has been updated.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Rod’s IFR Pilot's Handbook
- Developer
- Rod Machado
- Bundle ID
- com.rodmachado.ifr-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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- $18.5K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Food & Drink
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⭐Recent App Store Reviews12 latest · avg 3.75★ · 33.3% 5★ · 0% 1★
5★4 (33%)
4★4 (33%)
3★1 (8%)
2★3 (25%)
1★0 (0%)
+0 ratings/week
Praise: recommend ×3 great ×2 favorite ×2 fantastic ×1 best ×1Complaints: hate ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ An wonderful resource to use alongside your flight planning software!
I used Rod's app as my primary study guide while studying for my instrument written exam and scored 100%!!!! I now use the app on my iPad as a reference guide when I am looking at planning a trip somewhere I have not been to before. …
★★★★★ Highly Recommended for new IFR students and old pros alike!
OK, first of all I just have to say that Rod Machado is one of my favorite personalities in aviation. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, don't pass it up! Now on to the review. One of the most daunting tasks for new new (and o…
Top negative
★★☆☆☆ Why not just sell the book?
First, this is almost pointless on an iPhone as it is too small to read. Second, while it could look nice on an iPad you cannot view it in portorat format so you are constently scrolling in order to read each page. In the end why have an ap…
★★☆☆☆ Merely a PDF with zero features
No index, poor search function, cannot select, copy, or highlight text... What's the point of a text book if you can't highlight what's important to YOU for review. Very disappointed.…
📈Ratings growth6 ratings+500% 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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