AerScheduler vs BookOurPlane
Let us be straight about this one. BookOurPlane has been giving flying clubs a free booking calendar since 2004, and if a shared calendar is genuinely all your club needs, free is the right price and you should keep using it. The reason clubs move is everything that happens after the booking: billing the flight, collecting monthly dues, and knowing an aircraft is not overdue an inspection before somebody takes it.
$20/aircraft/mo · 14-day trial · No credit card · No sales call
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The part a booking calendar leaves to a spreadsheet
Membership tiers, joining fees and monthly dues billed automatically, with prorated first periods and a record of every period billed, waived or owed.
Membership
Members & dues
Prefer to drive it yourself? Open the full sandbox, no signup required.
Why schools move
- Your treasurer is chasing dues and flight time in a spreadsheet
- You want the flight billed from Hobbs the moment it is closed out, not typed up later
- Somebody needs to know the annual is due in eleven hours, before the aircraft is booked
- Members would rather open an app than a mobile website
Side-by-side
BookOurPlane is a trademark of its owner and has served flying clubs for over twenty years at no charge. Rows describe what each product publishes, including what BookOurPlane itself states is not included; "not published" means we could not confirm it, not that it is absent.
What you get for the twenty dollars
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.
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.
MaintenanceOne 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 billingThe tail goes out on Friday and comes back Sunday
Multi-day trips are one reservation across nights, with an overnight minimum you set per aircraft or school-wide, so a weekend rental does not need a manual invoice and a mental note.
Multi-day rentalsWhen you should stay on BookOurPlane
- Your club shares one or two aircraft, settles up informally, and a calendar is genuinely all you need. Free is hard to argue with
- Nobody is billing by the hour, so there is no invoice to draft
- Your maintenance is tracked on paper by one member who knows every aircraft, and that works
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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