Flight training
FlightWay for flight schools and instructors
For Part 61 schools, FBO rental and training operations, clubs that train, and independent CFIs. Book the student, the instructor and the airplane together, sign the lesson so it can never be lost, and get paid into your own bank, at a price that is on this page.
The demo is a fictional flying school with real data in it. Sign in as the instructor or as the student with one tap and try everything below. Nothing you do there sends a message or charges a card.
Who it is for
Part 61 flight schools
Instructor availability, a slot finder, recurring lessons, stage checks, pay after each lesson and instructor pay export. Part 61 only: Part 141 course approval is not supported.
FBO rental and training
Renters and students on the same fleet. Rental agreements and renter insurance on file before a booking, a public discovery-flight page, and prepaid accounts that sit in the books as what they are: money you owe in flying.
Clubs that train
The Training add-on puts instructors on bookings, signed lesson records and endorsements, and solo gating on top of the club plan your members already use.
Independent CFIs
Your own students, no fleet required, invoices paid into your own bank. FlightWay for Instructors.
Signed records nobody can lose
An instructor writes up the lesson, grades each maneuver, and signs it with a passkey: Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello or a security key. From that moment the record is locked. It cannot be edited and it cannot be deleted, by the instructor, the school, or us. A mistake is fixed with a correction: a new signed entry that points at the original, so both stay visible and the history is honest.
Each signed record carries a fingerprint of its exact content, chained to the record before it, and the signature itself is kept with the public key that made it. Anyone can re-check a student’s whole history, years later, and see that nothing has changed since it was signed.
A question worth asking any platform, in writing, before your students’ training history goes into it: what happens to a student’s records when the school deletes their account, or closes its own?
- Endorsements from the AC 61-65 wording, carrying the instructor’s certificate number. Time-limited ones expire on their own: a 90-day solo endorsement stops counting on day 91.
- Solo bookings check for a current solo endorsement for that make and model, and the student pilot certificate on file. Warn or block, your choice.
- Students and instructors are warned before an endorsement or a medical lapses.
- Every instructor can export every endorsement they have signed, across all their students, for the three years 61.189 asks them to keep it.
- A printable training record per student, with every signature and a verification footer.
Student, instructor and airplane in one tap
One booking holds all three. If the instructor is already teaching, off that day, or booked for ground school in the briefing room, the booking is refused, and it is refused by the database rather than by the form, the same way FlightWay already refuses two members booking one airplane. Two front-desk staff tapping the same slot at the same moment cannot both win.
- A slot finder: pick the student, the instructor and the airplane, and see only the times all three are free.
- Recurring lessons. “Tuesday and Thursday, 9 to 11, for six weeks” books in one go and tells you which two dates clashed.
- Simulators and briefing rooms are bookable resources with the same conflict check.
- Instructor availability and time off, with an optional rule that lessons must fall inside it.
- Built for the phone first. Book and check in from the ramp; it installs to the home screen and keeps working out of signal.
Weather alerts against your own minimums
Every lesson is checked against the forecast for the departure field at 24, 12 and 3 hours out, and the result is on the booking card the whole time. The limits it checks against are the strictest of three: the pilot’s own personal minimums, the minimums the instructor set for this student (optionally per stage, so pre-solo can be tighter than pre-checkride), and the school’s defaults for students and renters.
Wind is checked as crosswind for the best runway, not as a bare number, and the alert says which runway it used.
“Weather alert: KCEY for your 9:00 AM lesson is forecast MVFR (ceiling 2,500 ft) and wind 18G26 kt, above your 15 kt gust limit.” If the forecast improves, a second alert says so.
AI that knows each student’s weak spots
FlightWay keeps a picture of every student against the FAA Airman Certification Standards, task by task. It is built from the maneuver grades on signed lessons, the instructor’s notes and flags, book-work results, and the student’s knowledge-test report. So it can say something useful, like “Bob needs work on weather information; strong on airspace”, and show the evidence behind it.
- Upload a knowledge-test report and the missed ACS codes become a study plan, and a checklist the instructor works through before the practical test.
- An adaptive next lesson: a proposed plan weighted toward what this student needs and away from what they have mastered, in syllabus order. The instructor accepts or edits it in one tap.
- AI book-work between lessons, on the phone, with spaced repetition. It tracks the mistake, not just the score: “Bob keeps assuming Class E starts at 1,200 ft AGL and misses the 700 ft magenta vignette.”
- A voice tutor the student can talk a ground lesson through with, out loud. What they get right and wrong feeds the same picture.
- Diagrams built from your airport’s real FAA chart and your actual airplane, drawn by code: the sectional around your field with the feature highlighted, your runway’s crosswind against your limits. No AI-generated images, ever, for anything technical.
AI syllabus drafts that instructors approve. Describe the student and the airplane and FlightWay drafts a stage-by-stage syllabus mapped to the ACS and the Part 61 experience requirements, then checks it in code for gaps. It lands as a draft in the syllabus editor. Nothing AI-written is used with a student until a CFI has reviewed and published it.
What the AI does not do: it does not sign anything, grade a flight, or replace the instructor’s judgement. FlightWay does not issue knowledge-test endorsements; an authorized instructor does. Book-work questions are original and written against the ACS, not FAA test questions, and every AI grade is labelled as one and can be overridden by the instructor.
Syllabus, progress and stage checks
- Private ASEL and Instrument syllabi to start from, editable and versioned. A student stays on the version they enrolled on.
- Stage checks signed by a different instructor, which open the next stage.
- A Part 61 progress tracker: hours and events against 61.109(a) and 61.65(d), computed from signed records, so “how far from the checkride” is a number rather than a guess.
- An instructor dashboard: my students and where each stands, today’s lessons, unsigned write-ups, expiring endorsements, stage checks due.
- Progress reports for students and parents: hours against Part 61 minimums, stage completion and recent grades, as a PDF or a read-only link.
- Checkride outcomes and pass rates.
Paid after the lesson, into your own bank
- Pay after each lesson: the flight is charged to the card or bank account on file when it is completed, with an emailed receipt. Or bill monthly. Set it per school and per student.
- Prepaid accounts and packages, like “pay $2,500, fly $2,600”, held in the books as unearned revenue until they are flown, and drawn down automatically.
- Refunds of an unused balance that get the bonus arithmetic right.
- Instructor pay rules (hourly, percent of billed instruction, or per event) and a pay export for Gusto, ADP or a plain CSV. FlightWay never runs payroll, and nothing exported can be paid twice.
- The money goes through your own Stripe account into your own bank. FlightWay takes no cut of it.
- Real double-entry books built in: balance sheet, profit and loss, A/R aging. No QuickBooks to keep in step. How the books work.
The front desk
- A public discovery-flight page: a visitor picks a slot, signs the waiver (a guardian consents for a minor), and pays. The booking becomes a lead you can follow up.
- A simple lead pipeline, from first contact to enrolled.
- Versioned rental agreements and renter insurance on file, either of which can gate a booking.
- TSA flight-training security records: U.S. citizenship verification, security-awareness training for instructors and staff (initial and recurrent), and tracking for non-U.S. students going through the Alien Flight Student Program. FlightWay keeps your records; it does not file anything with the TSA for you.
- Reports on instructor and aircraft utilization, revenue per aircraft, the student pipeline, time to solo and time to checkride, and the prepaid balance you are holding.
Everything FlightWay already does
Training sits on top of a system that already runs a flying operation day to day.
A flight planner
Winds aloft at your cruise altitude, fuel stops, your personal fuel minimums, and a terrain advisor that offers a way around.
Squawks and maintenance
A critical squawk grounds the airplane and pulls it off the schedule. Inspections by date or hours, and AD tracking. More.
Statements and payments
Monthly statements reviewed before they go, collected by bank transfer or card. More.
What it is not
- Not a Part 141 course-management system. FlightWay supports Part 61 training.
- Not a logbook replacement. These are school-kept training records; the pilot’s logbook stays the pilot’s.
- Not FAA-approved, and nothing here should be read as saying so. The signing is designed around the elements of FAA guidance on electronic signatures and recordkeeping (AC 120-78A), which is a different thing from approval.
- Not a payroll service. Instructor pay is exported to the one you use.
- Not a courseware library. Lessons can link out to the books and courses your students already use.
What it costs
The price is on the page
No discovery call to hear a number, no quote form, no price you sign an NDA to see. What you see on the pricing page is what you pay.
No contract
Month to month, cancel any time. Training records stay readable and exportable after you stop paying, because a CFI’s 61.189 retention cannot depend on a subscription.
Nothing sold separately
Scheduling, records, billing, books and maintenance run on one plan. There is no training “hub” to add later and no reporting tier quoted on request. The only optional extra is ground-school seats for your students.
Questions schools ask
Do you support Part 141?
No. FlightWay supports Part 61 training: syllabi, signed lessons, stage checks, endorsements and the Part 61 experience requirements. If you need a TCO approved under Part 141, it is not the right system today.
Is this an FAA-approved recordkeeping system?
No, and we will not say it is. Records are signed with a passkey, locked once signed, and carry an audit trail designed around the elements of AC 120-78A. Whether that meets your own requirements is your call and, where it matters, your inspector’s.
Does it replace the student’s logbook?
No. These are the school’s signed training records. The student still keeps a logbook, and the endorsements you sign here can be printed for it.
What happens to a student’s records if they leave, or if we stop using FlightWay?
The student can download their signed record at any time and keep it. If the school stops paying, its records stay readable and exportable, and every instructor can still export the endorsements they signed.
Can we bring our data from MyFBO?
Yes. We import from the MyFBO backup file or from CSV reports. How a MyFBO move works.
Is the AI going to write lessons nobody checked?
No. An AI syllabus is a draft until a CFI publishes it, an AI-proposed lesson is a suggestion until the instructor accepts it, and FlightWay’s own lesson library is labelled as a draft until a person has reviewed it.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes, and it was built that way: booking, check-in, the lesson write-up and signing all work on a phone, and FlightWay installs to the home screen.
Open the demo school and look around
One tap signs you in as the instructor or the student. If you would rather ask something first, one email gets a real reply within a day.
Last updated 11 November 2026.