AerScheduler vs Flight Schedule Pro: The Flight Schedule Pro alternative with every module included
Flight Schedule Pro sells scheduling, billing, training, maintenance and reporting as separate hubs, priced by quote. AerScheduler puts all of it in one plan at $20 per aircraft a month, with iOS and Android apps and every user included, and you can start today.
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Price
Per aircraft, by custom quote. No price published.
$20a month
1 aircraft × $20. Every instructor, student and renter included.
- Scheduling
- Billing
- Maintenance
- Work orders
- Reporting
- iOS and Android
Flight Schedule Pro: Per aircraft, by custom quote. No price published.
Why schools move from Flight Schedule Pro
You want to start this week, without a demo call
You want the price on the page, not a quote
Your front desk wants a board that updates on every screen the moment a booking moves
Your renters and instructors carry Android phones as well as iPhones
“Less need for owner supervision, aircraft maintenance is precisely tracked, and student progression is clearly defined.”
Side by side
with Flight Schedule Pro
What each product says it does. Where Flight Schedule Pro does not publish something, the row says so rather than guessing.
Buying it
- Pricing
- AerScheduler:$20/mo per aircraft. Unlimited users. Simulators and classrooms free.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Per aircraft, by custom quote. No price published.
- What the price covers
- AerScheduler:Scheduling, billing, maintenance, work orders and reporting, in every plan.
- Flight Schedule Pro:A Scheduling Hub, with Billing, Training, Maintenance and Reporting Hubs added one by one or as a Suite.
- Getting started
- AerScheduler:Sign up and put the first flight on the board the same day. No call needed.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Request a demo, or ask for pricing.
Running the day
- Booking
- AerScheduler:Only the times when the aircraft, instructor and student are all free are offered, checked for currency and checkouts, and live on every screen.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Drag-and-drop scheduling, and Intelligent Scheduling in beta.
- Mobile apps
- AerScheduler:iOS and Android, for students, renters, instructors and mechanics.
- Flight Schedule Pro:iOS app for iPhone and iPad.
- Live schedule
- AerScheduler:Every screen in the school updates the moment a booking changes.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Not published
- Close-out
- AerScheduler:Ramp-in drafts the invoice from the meters and the rates on the tail. Card, ACH or account balance.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Automated billing through their own merchant account.
Maintenance
- Inspections
- AerScheduler:Tach, Hobbs and calendar-month countdowns. An overdue inspection grounds the aircraft.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Recurring maintenance reminders.
- Airworthiness directives
- AerScheduler:Every AD in the library naming the airframe, engine or propeller, listed for a person to decide, with alerts for new ones.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Not published
- Work orders
- AerScheduler:On your own fleet and on customers' aircraft.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Work orders with mechanic clock-in and clock-out.
- Owner approval and billing
- AerScheduler:The owner approves, declines or puts off each finding online, then pays the job's invoice by card or ACH.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Not published
- Parts
- AerScheduler:Parts on each job at cost plus your markup, labor at your shop rate.
- Flight Schedule Pro:Serialized parts inventory with low-stock alerts, and logbook entries written from the work.
Connecting
- Integrations
- AerScheduler:Stripe, Google Calendar and QuickBooks Online.
- Flight Schedule Pro:QuickBooks Online and an integrations marketplace.
- API
- AerScheduler:A documented public REST API on the Enterprise plan.
- Flight Schedule Pro:A custom API, enabled case by case.
Flight Schedule Pro is a long-standing product and a trademark of its owner. Rows describe what each product publishes; "not published" means we could not confirm it, not that it is absent.
Scheduling
and dispatch
Booking only offers the times when the aircraft, the instructor and the student are all free, and shows the next opening. Currency, checkouts, grounded aircraft and open squawks are checked before it saves, and every screen in the school sees the change at once.
Compared with Flight Schedule Pro. Its app is for iPhone and iPad. AerScheduler's runs on iOS and Android, so the renter with an Android phone books from the app too.
Learn moreType
Dual
Aircraft
N472DP
When
Mon 3:00 PM
Student
Jamie Castellano
Billing
in every plan
Hobbs and tach go in at ramp-in and the invoice is built from your rates. Charge a card on file, run autopay, or keep members on a prepaid account ledger.
Compared with Flight Schedule Pro. Billing is Flight Schedule Pro's Billing Hub, added to a plan. Here it is part of the price, with an invoice each when several people share a flight.
Learn moreRamp-in · Hobbs 1234.5 → 1237.4
Aircraft, N903MV
$478.50
2.9 Hobbs hr × $165
Instruction
$182.00
2.6 hr × $70
Landing fee
$15.00
KBDN
Invoice total
$675.50
Charged Visa ending 4242
Emeka Nwosu · Cross-country dual · Sep 28
Maintenance
and AD tracking
Every inspection counts down by tach, Hobbs or calendar month, and an overdue annual grounds the aircraft until it is signed off. Every AD in the library that names the airframe, engine or propeller is listed for a person to decide, from a library updated daily.
Compared with Flight Schedule Pro. Flight Schedule Pro sells maintenance as its Maintenance Hub and does not publish AD tracking. Here inspections, squawks and ADs come with every plan.
Learn more100-hour inspection
12.4
tach hours left
Oil change
6.8
Hobbs hours left
Annual inspection
64
days left
100-hour inspection
0.0
tach hours left
Dana Whitfield approved it from the email
Work orders
for any aircraft
Open a job on one of your own aircraft or a customer's. Write up what you find, send it to the owner to approve, decline or put off each item, and close it out into an invoice with labor at your shop rate and parts at cost plus your markup.
Compared with Flight Schedule Pro. Flight Schedule Pro's Maintenance Hub runs work orders with mechanic time clocks. It does not publish owner approvals or billing an aircraft's owner.
Learn moreThe belt waits for the next visit, off this bill
Reporting
on the same plan
21 reports on the same records as the schedule, from revenue and utilization to currency and endorsements. Filter and group any of them, save the view, export it to CSV or PDF, or email it daily, weekly or monthly.
Compared with Flight Schedule Pro. Both email reports on a schedule. Here every report is part of the price, where Flight Schedule Pro sells a Reporting Hub.
Learn moreHow often
Day
Monday
Time
7:00 AM
Send to
Sent as a CSV, every Monday at 7:00 AM
$20 per aircraft. Every instructor, student and renter included. No sales call.
Also in every plan
Simulators 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.
PricingOne 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 rentals
Mobile app
iOS and Android apps for students, instructors and mechanics
Included on every plan, and working from the same schedule, invoices and maintenance records as the web console.
- Students and renters
- Book aircraft and pay invoices from their phone.
- Instructors
- See the day and grade lessons in the app, even without a signal.
- Mechanics
- Log squawks with photos and attach inspection files from the ramp.
- Everyone
- Push notifications when the schedule changes, and standby offers to accept.
Upcoming
Moving from Flight Schedule Pro
Flight Schedule Pro works, and your school has years of history inside it. That is exactly why moving feels like a project, and it is the part we take off you: we move your data with you, set the school up with you, and you keep Flight Schedule Pro running until your staff stop reaching for it. What is on the other side is one system for the schedule, the invoice and the maintenance record, and a price you can read on this page.
01
A person moves your data, not an importer
Export what you can out of Flight Schedule Pro 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.
02
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.
03
Keep both running until you are ready
Nothing forces a cutover date. Run Flight Schedule Pro alongside AerScheduler and stop using it when the front desk stops opening it, which is usually the moment you know.
04
Nothing to sign, nothing locked in
14 days free, and nothing is charged if you cancel before they end. Every report exports to CSV, so the answer to "what if we change our mind" is a download rather than a support ticket.
Common questions
- How much does AerScheduler cost compared to Flight Schedule Pro?
- AerScheduler is $20 per aircraft per month with every user included, and simulators and classrooms are free. Flight Schedule Pro prices per aircraft by custom quote and does not publish the figure, so there is no public number to compare against.
- Can I switch from Flight Schedule Pro without a sales call?
- Yes. Signup is self-serve and the trial is 14 days, with nothing charged if you cancel before it ends. You can add an aircraft and put a flight on the board the same afternoon.
- Does AerScheduler have a mobile app?
- Yes, native iOS and Android apps for the whole team. Instructors, students and renters can book, and dispatchers can ramp a flight in and out from the ramp itself.
- Can several people be billed for one flight?
- Yes. Split the cost per head, by logged time, or in shares you set, and each person gets their own invoice. Useful for ground school, shared cross-countries and checkrides.
When we may not be the right fit
- You already run a large deployment and moving it would cost more than it saves
- You want a guided enterprise rollout with a named account team
- You want parts inventory and logbook entries kept inside the maintenance software
- You need a specific workflow or integration we do not cover yet
Flight school software pricing
$20 per aircraft per month, with unlimited users
A ten-aircraft school pays $200 a month. Start with a 14-day free trial. Nothing is charged until it ends.
“Before AerScheduler, we used a mix of a shared Google Calendar and Venmo to conduct aircraft rental, flight instruction and payments. The AerScheduler system has improved our operations tremendously. Less need for owner supervision, aircraft maintenance is precisely tracked, and student progression is clearly defined.”
Murray Aviation
On AerScheduler since 2023
Included in every plan
- Scheduling, billing, training, maintenance and reporting
- Unlimited instructors, students and renters
- iOS and Android apps
- Simulators and classrooms at no charge
- No setup fee and no contract
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