The OS for independent flight schools

Run your school
from one system,
not a group text.

Av8Book is scheduling, maintenance, billing, training records, and a student portal — wired together so when one thing happens, the right four things follow. No more clipboard. No more reconciliation prayer.

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Av8Book admin dashboard — today's flights, fleet status, revenue, and action items in one view
Trusted by independent flight schools across the U.S.
You know the drill

Your day breaks in the same four places.

The plane is double-booked. A student is calling the front desk for the third time today. Your oil change was due six hours ago and nobody flagged it. Billing doesn't match what was actually flown.

You don't need digital transformation. You need your day to stop breaking.

Four problems · one fix

Built for the way a flight school actually runs.

01

Scheduling that prevents conflicts

Students book online. A 9-step rules engine checks instructor qualifications, aircraft checkouts, maintenance status, and your policy windows before a slot ever appears.

02

Maintenance that blocks the calendar

Set Hobbs, tach, and calendar items per aircraft. When one hits its threshold, it pulls itself off the schedule. File squawks from the ramp. Return to service when the work is signed off.

03

Billing from what actually flew

Instructor completes the flight, enters the Hobbs, the invoice generates itself. Card on file is one click away. No end-of-week reconciliation.

04

A student portal that stops the phone

Students sign up, upload docs, see availability, book lessons, manage their balance, and get reminders. Your front desk stops being a call center.

Av8Book dispatch calendar — resource view with the day's bookings across the fleet
A SINGLE TRANSACTION

One tap completes the flight.
Five things happen at once.

Hobbs advanced. Squawks filed. Invoice generated. Logbook posted. Audit log written. If any one step fails, every step rolls back. Either it all happens — or none of it does.

Why this matters

The five things you used to do by hand. Now they happen at the same instant.

  • Everything posts together, or nothing does. When a flight completes, the Hobbs, the invoice, the logbook, and the record all update in the same instant. No half-finished paperwork, ever.
  • Exact to the penny. Every total adds up, every time. No rounding surprises at the end of the month.
  • Every dollar has a receipt. Every change is recorded permanently — who did it, what changed, and when. Nothing can be quietly edited or deleted.
  • Invoice numbers never skip.Clean, gapless books — your CPA never has to ask "where's 04411?"
Hobbs advancedAIRCRAFT · TACH
Squawks filed1 · GROUNDING
Invoice generatedINV-04412
Logbook entry posted14 CFR 61.51
Audit log writtenRECORDED · PERMANENT
ALL DONE · ABOUT A SECONDOK
Av8Book billing — invoices, balances, and payment status across the school
AUTO-GROUNDING

Maintenance that defends
the calendar.

Hobbs, tach, and calendar items per aircraft. Hit a threshold — the aircraft pulls itself off the schedule. Squawks file from the ramp. Return-to-service requires sign-off.

Double-booking is impossible

Exclusion constraints stop double-bookings even if the app has a bug.

Most flight school software lives in a spreadsheet's head. Two people can click the same slot at the same second — only one gets it. The conflict is blocked at the deepest level of the system, not just in the screen you're looking at. There is no sequence of clicks, refreshes, or slow Wi-Fi that puts two students in the same plane.

100-hr inspectionsAnnualOil changeELT batteryVOR checkPitot/staticCustom itemsPer-aircraft thresholds
Av8Book maintenance dashboard — overdue inspections and due-soon items per aircraft
Av8Book digital logbook — 14 CFR 61.51 entries auto-generated from flight completions
Live in 30 minutes

Three steps. Then your day stops breaking.

STEP 01

Set up your school

Add aircraft, instructors, rates. Import students from CSV. We ingest your exports — Flight Schedule Pro, etrainu, whatever you have.

STEP 02

Students book themselves

Share your portal link. The 9-step rules engine enforces qualifications, checkouts, maintenance, and your policy windows.

STEP 03

Flights auto-bill

Instructor taps Complete. Hobbs advances. Invoice generates. Logbook posts. Audit log writes. You go home.

30 min
Average time to go live
1 tap
completes a flight: Hobbs, invoice, logbook, done
$0
Per-user fees, ever
9-step
Booking rules engine
Mobile-first

Runs where you do. Phone, tablet, cockpit.

Fully responsive — no app to download. Students book, instructors complete flights, and owners check the day from a phone at the FBO.

Student portal on a phone — next flight and account balance
Instructor My Flights on a phone — today's schedule with complete-and-bill
Owner dashboard on a phone — fleet status and revenue
One plan · everything included

$229/month. Up to 10 aircraft. All features.

No tiers. No feature gates. No per-user fees. Per-seat pricing for a flight school is absurd.

$229/mo
Up to 10 aircraft · + $15/mo each additional
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Common questions

The objections we hear most.

Less chaos. Fewer missed dollars.

Your front desk shouldn't be a call center. Your billing shouldn't be a guessing game. Your maintenance shouldn't rely on someone remembering.

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