AerScheduler vs Flight Circle
A modern alternative to Flight Circle
Flight Circle already runs your schedule, so the question is not whether software helps. It is whether the rest of the day still costs you more admin than it should. AerScheduler puts dispatch, billing and maintenance in one place, updates every screen in the school the moment anything changes, and we move your data and set the school up with you. Keep both running in parallel for as long as it takes to trust it.
$20/aircraft/mo · 14-day trial · No credit card · No sales call
Switching, without the project
The reason schools stay somewhere they have outgrown is rarely the software. It is the week they imagine losing to moving. Here is what actually happens.
A person moves your data, not an importer
Export what you can out of Flight Circle and we get it into AerScheduler with you. Odd formats and missing fields become a conversation rather than a dead end, because a human is doing it.
We set the school up with you
Aircraft, rates, instructors, permissions and booking rules, configured with the team that builds the product. On a call if you want one, and never as a condition of signing up.
Keep both running until you are ready
Nothing forces a cutover date. Run Flight Circle alongside AerScheduler and stop using it when the front desk stops opening it, which is usually the moment you know.
Nothing to sign, nothing locked in
14 days free and no card to start. Every report exports to CSV, so the answer to "what if we change our mind" is a download rather than a support ticket.
Product preview
The board your front desk will live on
Lanes for every aircraft, simulator and classroom, conflict-aware booking, and drag to reschedule. Have a click around.
Dispatch
Mon · KAPA
Morning block airborne · 1 flown · 1 out · 3 to go
Want to drive the real thing? Open the live sandbox, no signup required.
Why schools move
- You want to be dispatching this week, without a sales call
- Predictable cost: $20 per aircraft, every user included, sims and rooms free
- The schedule, the invoice and the maintenance record should be one system
- Your instructors and renters will actually open the app on the ramp
What running the day looks like
The whole school sees the same schedule, immediately
A booking change reaches every browser and phone in the school as it happens, so the front desk, the instructor walking to the ramp and the student at home are never looking at three different versions of today.
Scheduling & DispatchThe 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 billingSimulators 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.
PricingThe 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 rentalsSide-by-side
Flight Circle is a trademark of its owner. Rows describe what each product publishes; "not published" means we could not confirm it, not that it is absent.
When we may not be the right fit
- You want ground-school courseware, video, reading and quizzes, inside the same tool. We do not build it, and link out to Sporty's, King or Gleim instead
- You already run a large deployment elsewhere and moving it would cost more than it saves
- You need a workflow or integration we do not cover yet
Common questions
- How is AerScheduler different from Flight Circle?
- Both run a flight school's schedule. The differences schools tell us about are how quickly you can start, what it costs as you add aircraft, and whether dispatch, billing and maintenance are one system or three.
- What does AerScheduler cost?
- $20 per aircraft per month. Every user is included, and simulators and classrooms never appear on the bill.
- Can I try it before talking to anyone?
- Yes. There is a live demo you can open with no signup, and a 14-day trial that needs no credit card and no sales call.
- Does it handle multi-day and overnight rentals?
- Yes. A trip that spans nights is one reservation, with an overnight minimum you set per aircraft or school-wide, so a weekend rental does not need a manual invoice afterwards.
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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