UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MAY STARTLE BE USED, OR LEFT RUNNING AN ACTIVE SESSION, WHILE YOU ARE PERFORMING DUTIES AS AN OPERATING FLIGHT OR CABIN CREWMEMBER — ON THE FLIGHT DECK, IN THE CABIN, OR ANYWHERE ELSE ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT.
This covers your whole duty on board: pre-flight checks, boarding, pushback and taxi, every phase of flight, disembarkation, and any post-flight duties.
Drills are designed to startle. End your session and close the app before you report for duty. Do not rely on the app's automatic safeguards to do this for you.
Startle is a training and reference aid, nothing more. It does not replace your operator's manuals, SOPs, checklists, emergency or safety procedures, or the published regulations. Those are the authority. Startle is not.
Startle is NOT approved, certified, endorsed or evaluated by Transport Canada, the FAA, any other civil aviation authority, any airline or air operator, or any aircraft manufacturer. It is not an approved training device of any kind.
Nothing in this app certifies or qualifies you for anything. It counts toward no licence, rating, currency or recurrent requirement, and it may not be logged as training credit.
Every time, rating and figure in Startle is recorded and marked by you, and nothing in the app verifies any of it. Startle's figures are not a measurement of your competence, your reaction time, your fitness to fly or your fitness for duty, and must not be presented or relied on as one by you or by anyone else.
Drills and alerts are designed to startle you — do not keep active sessions running while driving or operating any other vehicle or machinery.
Manually ending your session before you report for duty, board, or drive is your responsibility. Startle does not detect when you are on duty and will not stop a session for you.
Every drill is entered by you. You're responsible for verifying it matches your operator's current manuals and procedures — flight deck or cabin.
Startle's tones and callouts are training simulations. They must never be confused with, or allowed to desensitize you to, a real warning system, cabin alert or crew command on board.
Everything you create in Startle — your aircraft, drill sets, drills, decks, settings and all of your timing and scoring data — is stored only on this device. There is no server, no account and no analytics.
Startle makes no network requests at all, except to the App Store to sell the unlock and to restore it if you reinstall.
Nobody can see your content or your scores unless you send it to them. Startle never transmits anything, and the developer has no way to see your data unless you choose to share a file with him.
If this device backs up to iCloud, Startle's data is part of that device backup. That backup is held by Apple and handled under Apple's terms, not ours.
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You must be 18 or older to use Startle.
Startle is provided “as is” and “as available”, with no warranties of any kind, express or implied. That includes any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
To the extent the law allows, the developer is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive loss, or for any loss of data, however it arises. Total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid for the app.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law. In Quebec, article 1474 of the Civil Code of Québec prevents anyone from excluding liability for bodily or moral injury, and that stands. So does any right you have under consumer protection legislation.
If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest of them still apply.
Aircraft, drill sets and decks you import from someone else are not reviewed, verified or endorsed by Startle.
What you are importing is one crew member's notes. It is not a controlled document. It may be out of date. It may simply be wrong. It may have been written for a different operator, a different aircraft, or a different configuration or set of procedures from the ones you work to.
Before you rely on an imported aircraft, drill set or deck — or practise it — check every step of it against your own operator's current manuals and procedures. That check is yours to do. Startle accepts no liability for content created or shared by other users.
If these terms change, Startle stops at this screen on the next launch and shows them to you again. You cannot use the app until you have read them, scrolled to the bottom, ticked the term 1 acknowledgement again and accepted. Carrying on using the app is not how you agree — accepting is.
You can read the current terms any time from About.
Startle is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, licensed by or connected to any airline or air operator, any pilot or flight attendant union or association, any aircraft manufacturer, any training provider, or any regulatory authority.
No content in this app comes from, or has been approved by, any of those organisations. Any trademarks, operator names or aircraft type designations are ones you typed in yourself, and they remain the property of their owners.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Alberta have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.
This does not take away any right you have under the mandatory consumer protection law of the place where you live.