Instructor rates, pairing and availability
Instruction types set the dual and ground rates on every invoice. Pairing decides which CFI a student can book with. Weekly availability is what the desk and self-booking actually offer. The syllabus and lesson grades live under Training.
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Instruction
Rates & pairing
Instruction types
Private · Dual
Flight · 2 CFIs · 3 students
$65/hr
Instrument · Dual
Flight · 1 CFI · 1 student
$70/hr
Ground · Brief
Ground · 2 CFIs · 2 students
$45/hr
Who teaches · who learns
Pairing decides who can be booked together for Private · Dual. Syllabus progress lives under Training.
Instructors
Assigned students
- Jordan Lee↔ Alex Chen
- Casey Ng↔ Alex Chen
- Priya Shah↔ Alex Chen
Alex Chen · weekly availability
Self-booking and the desk only offer times that clear this week.
Who can teach whom, at what rate, and when they are free.
- Per rating
- Dual and ground rates
- Only valid pairs
- Booking stops offering combinations you did not intend
- Weekly
- Availability self-booking respects
“Less need for owner supervision, aircraft maintenance is precisely tracked, and student progression is clearly defined.”
What changes
The dual rate on the invoice is the rate you set
Read at close-out, so a dual and a ground lesson bill from the same place with nobody retyping a figure.
Booking only offers pairings you allow
Assign students to instructors and the form stops offering combinations you did not intend.
Nobody books a CFI on their day off
Weekly availability is what self-booking offers, so free hours are the only hours members can take.
Everything else in here
- Instruction types with default dual and ground rates
- Override the price on a single booking when one flight bills differently
- Assign students to instructors, so booking only offers valid pairs
- Weekly availability that self-booking and the desk both respect
- Dual, ground, and solo reservations priced from the same rates
- Clear split from Training: rates & pairing here, syllabus & records there
Set your instruction rates once
Rates per rating, pairings booking respects, and hours members can actually take.
Common questions
- How is this different from training records?
- This page is rates, pairing and availability: what scheduling and billing read. Training records is the syllabus, the lessons, the hours and the endorsements. They are separate because a club with no syllabus still needs instruction rates.
- Can each instructor bill a different rate?
- Rates are per rating rather than per instructor today, so every CFI teaching a rating bills the same figure. Schools needing a different number for one instructor use a booking-level price override.
- Does availability stop the front desk booking somebody?
- Availability is what self-booking offers. The desk can still book outside it, which is what you want when an instructor has agreed to come in.
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