Flying Club Scheduling Ideas

[Ken Mercer]

As a member of a few different flying clubs in my time, I am curious to know how other clubs handle their aircraft scheduling.
1. What system do you use to schedule?
2. What scheduling rules do you have place? i.e. Maximum reservations times, etc.

Thanks!

We're using FlightCircle, a cloud-based application that costs us $10/month (as EAA members). It was designed for FBOs so it has a lot of features we don't use, but the online scheduling works well for us. Scheduling, billing, maintenance and currency tracking all work well, and after an initially-steep learning curve it's easy to configure and use. I've talked with one of the principals at FlightCircle a couple of times about a particular issue that didn't make sense and and he update the program within a couple of days. Not saying they can do this in all cases, but they have been responsive to us, and knowledgeable about aviation operation. We're still waiting on a mobile app, though.

More information at https://www.eaa.org/eaa/pilots/flyin.../flight-circle

k

[ahramin]

I'm a member of a small club with one aircraft. We use goboko.com for scheduling, document control, and maintenance schedule tracking. It's under $10 a month and works ok.

We have no scheduling rules but will add some as needed.

[robert l]

I rent from two different places, one uses FlightCircle and the other uses, HoldShort. These are not flying clubs, just rental, and there doesn't seem to be any conflict with scheduling. I'm retired so I can fly during the week when most people are working so it's not a problem for me either way. I would like to get a flying club started but it's hard getting enough intrest in my area.
Bob