For independent CFIs
FlightWay for Instructors
For the freelance CFI teaching in the student’s airplane, a club’s or an FBO’s rental. Your students, your schedule, your signed records and your invoices, with no fleet of your own required.
Your practice, in one place
No fleet required
A lesson can be in “the student’s 172, N12345” or “a rental from the FBO”. Endorsements carry the make and model, and solo checks work against it, without any airplane being set up.
Students book you
Set your availability and students request or book lesson slots. Your time off blocks the calendar, and a double booking is refused.
Signed records
Write up a lesson on your phone, grade each maneuver, and sign with a passkey. The record locks and the student gets their copy. How signing works.
Endorsements
AC 61-65 wording, your certificate number on each, expiry handled for the time-limited ones, and an export of every endorsement you have given for your 61.189 records.
Weather against your minimums
Set your own limits and a tighter set for each student, including crosswind. Both of you hear about it the day before, and again on the morning, if the forecast is below them.
Progress you can show
A Part 61 tracker against 61.109(a) and 61.65(d), and progress reports for the student, or for a parent.
Getting paid
- Invoice ground and flight instruction at your rates, charged when the lesson is done, or sell lesson packages up front.
- Paid through your own Stripe account into your own bank. FlightWay takes no cut.
- Simple books for a one-person practice: income, expenses like your CFI renewal, insurance and headsets, and a Schedule C-style income and expense report with a CSV export for your accountant.
Teach the ground with help
- Each student’s strengths and weak spots against the ACS, from your grades, your notes, their book-work and their knowledge-test report.
- Book-work you assign between lessons, AI-graded with the reasoning shown, and yours to override.
- A proposed plan for the next lesson, aimed at what this student needs. You accept or change it.
- An AI-drafted syllabus that you review and publish. Nothing reaches a student until you do.
Portable, in both directions
A student can be your student and a member of a club or school at the same time, and can always download their own signed records. If you teach at a club as well and later leave it, you take the endorsements you signed and your own syllabus templates with you.
What it is not
- Not a logbook. Your students keep theirs, and you keep your own.
- Not FAA-approved, and FlightWay does not issue endorsements. You do.
- Part 61 only.
What it costs
I teach at a club that uses FlightWay. Do I need this too?
Only for students outside the club. Inside the club you are an instructor on the club’s plan. FlightWay for Instructors is your own practice, kept separate.
My student flies their own airplane. Does that work?
Yes. Lessons record the tail number and the make and model as text. Nothing about the airplane has to be set up first.
Can I take my records with me?
Yes. Every endorsement you have signed exports as CSV and PDF, across all your students and any date range.
See it from the instructor’s chair
The demo signs you in as an instructor with students, lessons and endorsements already in it.
Last updated 11 November 2026.