Flying Club Scheduling Ideas

[Tracker]

We used Google for scheduling as it was easy to use and free. No other features available such as maintenance. We only had one plane so it wasn't difficult.

[jerryb829]

Our club uses a service called ScheduleMaster and have used it since the '95. It costs our club $40.00 per month for 4 planes. We have 4 aircraft on this service with 70 pilots in our club and about 15 CFI's. This service has many features: membership list, able to limit members to aircraft based on checkouts, ability to send out bulk emails to the membership, block schedules due to maintenance, billing, scheduling limits, lock a pilot out if their medical or biannual expires. The only limitation is that this service is only available by logging into the Schedulemaster website, there is not an app available for this service. We limit our members to 3 reservations. Long trip reservations are limited to 12 days and only may include 1 weekend. When reserving airplanes for a multiday trips the pilot must fly a minimum of 1 hour a day Monday through Friday and 2 hours on Saturday and Sunday. Day trips have a minimum of 1 hour flight time per 6 hour reservation. You can customize the scheduling to fit your club's requirements.

[Samuel]

Our club (Bemidji Flying Club) uses bookourplane.com. Its free and works pretty well. Also we have emailed the creator, Lars, with questions and he is always pretty prompt. Now that we are running a two airplane fleet we would like to incorporate the maintenance tracking side of things. So we will probably be looking for a new software.