AerScheduler vs Airplane Manager
These two products serve different operations. Airplane Manager describes itself as scheduling crafted for corporate jets, connecting pilots, passengers, owners and assistants. If that is your operation, it is aimed squarely at you. AerScheduler is for the other kind of flight line: students and renters who book themselves, instructors with availability, aircraft billed by the hour, and an invoice at the end of every flight.
$20/aircraft/mo · 14-day trial · No credit card · No sales call
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Students and renters book themselves
The rules are yours: who is approved on which aircraft, how far ahead they can book, whether an instructor is required. The desk stops being a switchboard.
You
Book a flight
Aircraftpick one
N172SP · Cessna 172S
Instructorpick one
Alex Chen
Typepick one
Dual
Date
Wed, Jul 22
Timepick one
08:00-10:00
Available
Aircraft and instructor are free in this window.
Prefer to drive it yourself? Open the full sandbox, no signup required.
Why schools move
- Your schedule is driven by students and renters, not by trip requests
- Instructors need availability, pairing and their own rates
- Aircraft are billed by Hobbs or tach, and every flight ends in an invoice
- $20 per aircraft with every student, instructor and renter included
Side-by-side
Airplane Manager is a trademark of its owner and is built for a different kind of operation, which is the point of this page rather than a criticism. Rows describe what each product publishes; "not published" means we could not confirm it, not that it is absent.
What a training operation needs that a jet schedule does not
The flight closes itself out into an invoice
Ramp in with Hobbs, tach and fuel, and the invoice drafts from the rates already on the tail. No export, no second system, no evening spent reconciling the day's flying against the schedule.
BillingOne reservation can hold several people, and several invoices
A ground-school class, two pilots sharing a cross-country, a checkride with an examiner. Split the cost per head, by logged time, or in shares you set, and everyone gets their own invoice.
Split billingAn aircraft that is out of annual cannot be booked
Inspections carry server-computed due dates against hours and calendar time. When one comes due the aircraft grounds itself on the board, so nobody dispatches a tail that should not fly.
MaintenanceSimulators and classrooms cost nothing
They are first-class resources on the dispatch board, bookable like any tail, and they never appear on your bill. You pay $20 per aircraft and nothing else, however many people you invite.
PricingWhen we may not be the right fit
- You run a corporate flight department and need passenger manifests, catering and trip requests. Airplane Manager is built for that and we are not
- You need crew duty-time tracking for Part 135 charter
- Your aircraft are not billed by the hour to the person flying them
Try AerScheduler on your own fleet
Add a tail, put a flight on the board, ramp it in and watch the invoice draft itself. 14 days, no credit card, no sales call.
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