What the iOS app does
The app is built for pilots away from a desk. It does some things the console cannot, and the console does a great deal the app does not.
For owners, admins, instructors, students and renters
The iPhone app is the same account as the console, narrowed to what a pilot needs away from a desk: your schedule, booking, ramping out and in, closing out, squawks and lesson grading. A handful of admin jobs exist only in the app, and the list is short enough to memorize.
Which one should I use?#
Use the console at app.aerscheduler.com for anything that involves the whole operation: settings, billing, reports, the roster, the fleet, facilities, audit logs.
Use the app for the flight in front of you. It is built for the ramp and the aircraft, not for the office.
What the app can do that the console cannot#
This is the important list, because these jobs have no other route.
| Job | Where in the app |
|---|---|
| Post, edit or delete an announcement | AppCreate Announcement |
| Set push notification categories | AppSettings → Notifications → Push |
| Join, switch or leave an organization | AppSettings |
| Approve people before they join | AppOrganization settings → Joining Organization Restriction |
| Update an aircraft's home base on ramp in | AppOrganization settings |
| Delete the organization | AppOrganization settings → Delete Organization |
| Invoice a guest by hand | AppBilling → Generate Invoice, which takes a name and an email address |
What the console can do that the app cannot#
Everything school-wide, essentially:
- Settings, all twelve sections.
- Facilities, for locations, simulators and rooms. The app can add a location; only the console can edit or remove one.
- Reports, saved views, scheduled reports and the overview dashboard.
- The Billing page: every invoice, marking paid, voiding, payment reminders.
- Audit Logs, Cancellations, Go / No-Go, and the Dashboard with its setup checklist.
- Email notification switches. The app holds push, the console holds email.
What both do#
- See the schedule and your own bookings.
- Book, edit and cancel a reservation.
- Ramp out, ramp in, close out, and sign off with your PIN.
- Read the roster and the fleet, and open a person or a tail.
- Log a squawk, verify one, resolve one, and read the maintenance boards.
- Grade a lesson and read a training record.
- Read announcements and your notifications.
- Correct recorded times, override a booking's rates, and raise the invoice for a flight that closed out without one.
Things the app is genuinely better at#
- Grading at the aircraft. The app holds a grade written with no signal and syncs it later. See Grade lessons offline on the iPhone app.
- Ramping in and out. It is a phone in your pocket on the ramp, and the console is not.
- Push. A cancelled booking reaches you in a minute, wherever you are.
Signing in#
The same email and password, or Sign in with Google or Apple. If you belong to more than one school, switch between them from AppSettings → Switch organization, not from the navigation menu.
Android#
There is no Android app today. Android users run the console in the phone's browser, which works, and get email rather than push.
Still stuck on this?
Email support@aerscheduler.com and tell us what you were trying to do. We answer.