Lumina Flight
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Lumina Flight reads from 14 CFR, Advisory Circulars, and FAA Legal Interpretations together. Ask in plain English. Get the exact regulation text, the FAA's guidance, and the Chief Counsel's ruling — with citations you can verify in one click.
Why that matters: ChatGPT can hallucinate. FAR/AIM apps don't read Legal Interpretations. Forums are other pilots guessing. You deserve a tool that shows you the law, the FAA's guidance, and the Chief Counsel's rulings — in one answer. One wrong reg answer can cost you a $500–$800 checkride retake.
Beta stage — active development. You'll get the core Q&A experience today. Feature status labels throughout the page show what's ready now vs. coming next. We ship improvements weekly.
Built for student pilots and CFIs first — flight schools, we're working on yours.
7 days free · card required · 30-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime
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"Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, no person may act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers during the period beginning 1 hour after sunset and ending 1 hour before sunrise, unless within the preceding 90 days that person has made at least three takeoffs and three landings to a full stop during the period beginning 1 hour after sunset and ending 1 hour before sunrise..."
Night passenger carrying requires three takeoffs and three full-stop landings at night within the preceding 90 days, in the same category and class of aircraft.
Every answer pulls from the law, the FAA's own guidance, and the Chief Counsel's written rulings. No consumer tool we know of surfaces all three.
The actual text of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, verbatim. Linked back to the official eCFR so you can verify every citation in one click.
The FAA's own "how we expect you to comply" documents. Cross-referenced to the regulations they support, so you can see both the rule and the FAA's accepted method.
Formal rulings from the FAA Office of the Chief Counsel. When a reg is ambiguous, these are the answers the FAA itself enforces by. We haven't seen another consumer tool that combines all three.
ChatGPT, Google AI, FAR/AIM apps, and Sporty's don't combine these three sources.
Students ask Google AI and get confident, wrong answers. CFIs open six tabs — eCFR, an AC index, a forum, their FAR/AIM app, a Facebook group, and YouTube. Few pilots cross-reference Legal Interpretations, because that's a 4,000-page PDF haystack.
"You could ask the same question twice, worded slightly differently, and it gives contradicting answers."
— CFI on Reddit, on generic AI
This is dangerous in aviation. The regulation is the law. The AC is how the FAA expects compliance. The Legal Interpretation is how the FAA enforces it. You need all three.
That's why we built Lumina Flight.
What you actually pay when you trust a forum, a hallucinating AI, or a half-remembered rule.
Average retake cost, plus 1–2 weeks of delay. One confidently wrong reg answer on the oral is enough.
A Letter of Investigation or re-exam ride after a deviation. Hours of paperwork, legal fees, and grounded time.
Word travels. Giving a student a wrong reg once gets excused. Twice and they switch instructors — and tell their friends.
Per lookup today, across eCFR tabs, AC indexes, and forum threads. Lumina cuts that to seconds and surfaces the Legal Interpretation you didn’t know existed.
Lumina Flight is $20/mo, or $10/mo for founding members. One avoided checkride retake pays for years.
Built specifically for aviation where getting the regulation wrong isn't an option.
| Capability | Lumina Flight | ChatGPT / Google AI | FAR / AIM apps | Sporty's / King / Gleim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads 14 CFR verbatim | ✓ | Paraphrased | ✓ | Snippets |
| Cross-references Advisory Circulars | ✓ | ✗ | Separate | ✗ |
| Searches FAA Legal Interpretations | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Citation shown before explanation | ✓ | ✗ | No explanation | Mixed |
| Official eCFR links | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Citation-grounded answers | ✓ | Unreliable | ✓ (no AI) | ✓ (no AI) |
| Plain-English Q&A workflow | Built for it | Yes, but unreliable | ✗ (lookup only) | ✗ (fixed lessons) |
Data as of May 2026. Based on publicly available product information and hands-on testing.
Describe a scenario, lesson question, or flight requirement the same way you'd ask an instructor.
Get the CFR citation and official link immediately. Explanation appears only after the source.
Real workflows we've seen from students, CFIs, and DPEs during beta.
Get the CFR citation the DPE is going to cite, plus the Legal Interpretation that explains the edge cases.
Describe the scenario, get the rule + AC + interpretation side-by-side, cite it confidently in the brief.
§61.57, §91.205, Class B requirements, Special VFR — source-first answers before you taxi.
Here's what's inside your Lumina Flight subscription, item by item, with a fair standalone value for each.
Start with a 7-day free trial. Founding-member pricing is available during the beta period.
Students, CFIs, DPEs, working pilots
Founder rate applied automatically at checkout during the beta.
CFIs, DPEs, and serious working pilots who can't afford to be wrong
Fleet & school features launching next — tell us what you need. Part 61 & Part 141 schools, small fleets, multi-CFI businesses.
Already in the beta? Your founder pricing is locked in.
Full access for 7 days. Card required to start the trial, but you can cancel in one click before the first charge.
If Lumina doesn't fit your workflow in the first 30 days after your first charge, email us. Full refund of that charge — monthly or annual. No forms. No friction.
If we point you to the wrong section of the CFR, or miss a regulation that clearly applies to your question, we issue a one-month credit (or a pro-rated refund on annual plans). We won't argue nuance — but we will stand behind obvious misses.
We're collecting attributed testimonials for launch. Below are the consistent themes we're hearing from student pilots, CFIs, and DPEs using Lumina today.
Several CFIs told us they stopped routing regulation questions to ChatGPT within their first week. The Legal Interpretations index stood out — most had no idea those existed and said they're how enforcement actually works.
Student pilots preparing for orals reported that the scenarios and cited sections they rehearsed in Lumina matched the actual questions their DPE asked — and that the DPE referenced the same CFR sections.
Evaluators in the beta valued the citation-first format specifically: every answer links out to eCFR, so there's nothing to take on faith. That verifiability was described as the minimum bar for anything aviation-related.
A recurring theme: consolidating reg + AC + interpretation into one query instead of six browser tabs. Multiple CFIs estimated saving 10 or more minutes per lesson on pre-brief research.
Part 141 chief instructors said the most practical value was ending student arguments about AI-sourced claims: when every answer cites a source the student can verify, the conversation shifts to understanding the actual rule. Several also mentioned learning new things themselves from the Legal Interpretations.
Founding members help shape what ships next. In exchange, your price is locked in at 50% off the public rate for as long as your subscription stays active.
The founder rate is available during the beta period. After beta, it closes for new signups.
Read citation-first explainers crafted from Lumina Flight answers, then ask your own question in the app.
The Student tier is live today — check founding pricing. This form is for Pro and Operational tiers, which are still in active development.
Takes about 2 minutes. Fleet owners and schools: we're actively building daily regulation impact reports, FAA form autofill, and audit-ready activity logs — tell us which of these you'd actually pay for.
Fleet and Pro respondents get first access to new tiers before public release.
Your answers directly influence what ships next. We read every submission.
Waitlist members get a founder-style discount on Pro / Operational at launch.
About 2 minutes. Most fields are here so we can design Pro and Operational around your real workflow.
Everything about pricing, the trial, the guarantee, and what happens after the beta.
It's a citation-first FAA Q&A tool. You ask in plain English. It reads from 14 CFR, Advisory Circulars, and FAA Legal Interpretations together, shows you the exact source text first, links the official eCFR entry, and only then gives a plain-language explanation.
Create an account, add a card (required for the trial), and get 7 full days of Student-tier access. Cancel any time during the trial and you won't be charged. If you don't cancel, your subscription starts on day 8 at the price you selected.
Two reasons. First, it reserves your founding-member rate while it's available. Second, our beta users told us the people who never add a card also never give real feedback, which means we can't make the product better for working pilots.
Founding members get $10/mo or $90/yr — half the public rate — locked in for as long as their subscription stays active. If you cancel and come back later, you rejoin at the public rate. The founding offer is available during the beta period.
On July 23, 2026 the free beta ends and paid tiers go live. Every existing beta account is grandfathered at the $10/mo or $90/yr founder rate for life — no public seat consumed. Just sign in before or after July 23, 2026 and your billing page will show your locked rate at checkout.
If Lumina isn't a fit in the first 30 days after your first paid charge, email contact@luminaflight.com and we'll refund that charge in full — whether you're on a monthly or annual plan. No forms, no friction.
If we send you to the wrong section of the CFR, or miss a regulation that clearly applies to your question, we issue a one-month credit — or a pro-rated refund on annual plans. Regulations have nuance and edge cases — we won't argue minor interpretation differences — but we stand behind not making crude mistakes.
Yes. One click from the billing page. Your access continues to the end of the period you already paid for.
They're in active development. Join the Pro / Operational waitlist to get early access and founder-style pricing when they launch.
No. Use Lumina alongside them. Always confirm decisions against official source material, and treat your instructor's and DPE's judgment as authoritative for your training. Lumina speeds up research — it doesn't replace it.
eCFR and Advisory Circular text is refreshed on a regular ingestion cadence. Legal Interpretations are added as the FAA publishes them. If we ever fall behind, the official link is always one click away for you to verify.
The FAA Q&A tool that reads from 14 CFR, Advisory Circulars, and Legal Interpretations together. 7 days free, 30-day money-back, cancel anytime.
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