Resources for flight schools
Guides on scheduling, billing, airworthiness, training records and reporting, the product documentation, and how AerScheduler compares when you are choosing a platform.
Choosing a platform
What to look for, what it should cost, and what moving actually involves.
Flight school scheduling software
What modern flight school scheduling software should include: dispatch, self-booking, billing, and mobile.
ReadMyFBO alternative & migration
MyFBO shut down in August 2026. How schools got their data out, stood AerScheduler up, ran both in parallel, and cut over.
ReadPricing
$20 per aircraft per month. Simulators and classrooms free. Unlimited users. 14-day trial.
ReadAirworthiness
Three pages for three different readers: an owner choosing a system, a mechanic checking a date, and whoever hands records to an inspector.
AD library
FAA Airworthiness Directives, readable, filed under the aircraft, engines, propellers and equipment it names, with new ADs a day early and email alerts. Free, no account.
ReadAirworthiness Directive tracking
Finding the ADs that name each aircraft, deciding which apply, recording compliance and enforcing a lapse: what each job takes, and where ADlog or AVTRAK still fit.
ReadCalendar months and inspection due dates
An annual signed on 15 February is good through 28 February the following year. What 12 calendar months means, which inspections use it, and what tracking them as 365 days costs.
ReadAircraft maintenance records
The two lists in 14 CFR 91.417 and their very different lifespans, which records go with the aeroplane when you sell it, and why a tracking system is not a logbook.
ReadFAA regulations
The rules owners, flight schools, mechanics and pilots look up most, each explained in plain English beside the official eCFR text.
FAA regulations in plain English
52 sections of 14 CFR, grouped by who needs them: owning an aircraft, inspections, maintenance records, ADs, pilots, instructors and Part 141 schools.
ReadAnnual and 100-hour inspections
14 CFR 91.409: the annual every 12 calendar months, who needs a 100-hour, and the 10-hour allowance to reach the shop.
ReadMaintenance records an owner must keep
14 CFR 91.417: the work records you can retire after a year and the status records that stay with the aircraft for good.
ReadBilling and money
The cases that decide whether billing is five minutes a day or an afternoon a month.
Split billing & shared flights
Group ground school billed per student, two pilots splitting a cross-country, and a safety pilot who isn't paying, all on one booking.
ReadOvernight & multi-day rentals
Book a trip that spans nights, charge a minimum for every night the aircraft is away, and tell the member before they agree to it.
ReadFlying club dues & fees
What clubs charge to join and to stay, the tiers they settle on, and the five awkward cases (mid-month joiners, seasonal members, a comped month) that decide whether dues are a five-minute job.
ReadQuickBooks Online integration
How paid AerScheduler invoices sync to QuickBooks Online as Sales Receipts, without CSV exports.
ReadReporting
The pillar first, then the two numbers owners ask for by name.
Flight school reports
The reports worth having (revenue, utilization, instruction, fleet, compliance) and what each one answers.
ReadAircraft utilization reports
Booked vs flown vs billed hours per tail, and what the two gaps between them are quietly costing you.
ReadRevenue reporting
Billed, collected, and outstanding, cut by aircraft, instructor, customer, or lesson type.
ReadTraining
What a school has to keep, and what makes a record hold up later.
Compared with other platforms
Each page records where the third column came from and the date it was checked. Not published means we could not confirm it, never that it is absent.
AerScheduler vs Flight Schedule Pro
Compare AerScheduler and Flight Schedule Pro: $20 per aircraft a month with every module and user included, iOS and Android apps, work orders on customers' aircraft, and self-serve setup with no demo call.
ReadAerScheduler vs Flight Circle
Compare AerScheduler and Flight Circle: native iOS and Android apps instead of a home-screen web app, any number of people billed on one flight, work orders on customers' aircraft, and ADs picked from a library.
ReadAerScheduler vs Schedule Pointe
Compare AerScheduler and Schedule Pointe for flight schools and clubs: software built only for aviation, $20/mo per aircraft published, self-serve signup, work orders and AD tracking.
ReadAerScheduler vs FlightLogger
Compare AerScheduler and FlightLogger: a flat $20/mo per aircraft with every module and user included, versus a platform fee plus charges for each active student and operational flight.
ReadAerScheduler vs Talon Systems
Compare AerScheduler and Talon Systems ETA: one system at $20/mo per aircraft that an independent school sets up itself, versus ETA, RMS and Talon Mobile sold by demo and configured per organization.
ReadAerScheduler vs Airplane Manager
Airplane Manager is built for corporate flight departments. AerScheduler is built for flight schools, clubs and rental operations, at $20/mo per aircraft with students, instructors and renters included.
ReadAerScheduler vs BookOurPlane
BookOurPlane is a free aircraft booking calendar for flying clubs. AerScheduler adds the money and the maintenance: invoicing, dues, inspection due dates, AD tracking and native iOS and Android apps, at $20/mo per aircraft.
ReadDevelopers
A documented REST API over the schedule, the fleet and billing, available on the Enterprise plan.