# Set your weekly availability

> Set the hours you can be booked under Profile then Availability. The iOS app honors these hours when someone books you, and the web console does not.

Source: https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/scheduling/set-your-weekly-availability
Section: Scheduling and dispatch. For: Instructors, Admins.

Set the hours you can be booked under `You → Profile → Availability` (web console). Switch a day on, give it a start and an end, and press **Save
availability**. A day left off reads as Unavailable.

**Who can do this:** Instructors

## Set your hours

1. **Open the Availability tab**

   Go to `You → Profile` (web console) and pick the **Availability** tab. An old
   bookmark to the availability page still works and redirects here.

2. **Switch on the days you work**

   Each day has a switch. On, and it takes a start and an end time. Off, and the day shows
   Unavailable.

   ![Profile, Availability tab](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/profile-availability.png)

3. **Press Save availability**

   The end time has to be after the start, or you get "End must be after start."

## One window per day

Each day holds exactly one window. There is no way to express a lunch break, or a morning
block and an evening block, on the same day. Set the outer hours you are willing to be
booked in, and block the middle out by putting a booking there instead.

## Availability is per school

Your hours belong to one school. If you instruct at two, you set them separately at each, and
so are your confirmation PIN and your email preferences. Switching organizations gives you a
fresh set rather than carrying the old one over.

## Which app honors your hours

This is the part worth reading twice.

| Where somebody books you | Does it respect these hours?                                                     |
| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AerScheduler iOS app     | Yes. The times offered are your availability minus what you already have booked. |
| Web console              | No. The times offered are only the times you are not already booked.             |

So a student booking you on the web can still land on 9:00 PM even though your Saturday ends
at 5:00 PM. The web booking form builds its list of start times from the overlap of the
aircraft's free time, yours and the instructor's, and "free" there means "not already booked".

> **Careful:** Treat these hours as a statement of intent rather than a fence. Until the web console reads
> them, the only thing that reliably keeps a slot off your schedule is a booking in it.

## Do not switch every day off

Clearing every day, for example to reset the grid before typing fresh hours, is read by the
iOS app as having no availability at all. You become completely unbookable in the app, with
nothing on screen to say so, while the web carries on offering you as normal.

If you want a week off, cancel or decline the bookings and tell the front desk. Switching all
seven days off is not a holiday setting.

## Where members set this on iOS

On the web, the Availability tab is shown to instructors, because instructors are who students
book against. Every member can set theirs in the iOS app under
`Settings → Schedule → Availability` (mobile app), headed "When you can
be scheduled".

## Related

- [Book a reservation from the dispatch board](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/scheduling/book-a-reservation): Where the front desk sees the times you are free.
- [Why was my booking refused?](https://www.aerscheduler.com/docs/scheduling/why-was-my-booking-refused): Including an empty Start list, and what actually causes it.