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In beta — onboarding with pilot schools

The schedule and the logbook stop disagreeing.

Aircraft, instructors, students and rooms on one calendar — and because the same system is the EFB your students fly with, the hours on the dashboard are the hours that were actually flown. Nothing to reconcile at month end.

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Built for Part 61 helicopter schools first. Part 141 on the roadmap.

The month-end problem

Every scheduler is a calendar people type numbers into.

Someone reads a Hobbs meter and types it into the scheduler. Someone types it again into the training record. A third person reconciles both against an invoice four weeks later. The industry's leading tool has a feature called mismatch monitoring — software whose job is to catch what the typing missed.

A normal Tuesday now
  • Scheduler, training records and billing are three systems
  • Hours arrive by hand and disagree by month end
  • "How many hours has N505RK got left?" needs a phone call
  • A student finishes the syllabus and is still short on solo cross-country
  • Two instructors book the same aircraft and someone loses
  • The IFR ship sits idle while a VFR lesson waits
With Soar Schedule
  • One system, because the students fly the app already
  • Hours come from the flight; Hobbs confirms, and mismatches are flagged
  • The dashboard names the date each airframe grounds
  • Regulatory hour buckets tracked alongside the syllabus
  • Double-booking is rejected by the database, not by a person
  • An IFR aircraft fills a VFR slot automatically when it's free
How it works

Four things that are unusually hard to get right.

  1. Double-booking is impossible, not merely checked

    Two people can book the same aircraft at the same instant and both get a confirmation — that's a race, and no amount of checking fixes it. We push the constraint into the database, so the overlap can't be stored at all. Every client is correct by construction rather than by discipline. Turn time is part of it: if the aircraft needs fifteen minutes between flights, a booking fourteen minutes later is refused.

  2. An IFR aircraft can fly a VFR lesson

    Aircraft carry capabilities — IFR, night, NVG, dual controls. A lesson states what it needs. Anything that meets or exceeds it qualifies, so your IFR ship naturally fills a VFR slot when it's free. The half nobody asks for until it hurts: eligible aircraft are ranked by least capability wasted, so VFR lessons take the simplest machine available and your instrument students don't get squeezed out of theirs. You can also reserve an airframe outright — instrument-only, Tuesday afternoons.

  3. The schedule knows when an aircraft leaves service

    Your dashboard knows hours remaining. Only the schedule knows what's booked ahead of it. Put those together and you get the answer a chief pilot actually wants on a Monday: N505RK has 12.4 hours to the 100-hour; at what's on the books it grounds Thursday the 8th mid-morning; these six reservations need to move. Maintenance downtime is a booking like any other, so an inspection conflicts with a lesson natively.

  4. Two kinds of "finished"

    A student can complete every lesson in the syllabus and still not be eligible, because the regulation counts hours in buckets the syllabus doesn't enumerate. We track both. And the buckets that expire — "within the preceding two calendar months" — expire properly, so a requirement met in March doesn't still show green in August.

For the people using it daily

Instructors request. Students see what's next.

Instructors

Publish the hours you're willing to work, request a slot, and grade a lesson in the cockpit — offline, on the ramp, before the details fade. It syncs when you have signal.

Students

What's booked, what's next in the syllabus, hours by bucket, and how far off the checkride actually is.

Front desk

A day board with every flight, its status and its squawks. Dispatch, check in, and see who's airborne right now.

Anyone's calendar

Subscribe from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. Read-only on purpose — bookings only happen where the rules are enforced.

The reason to switch

Grade the lesson against the flight.

The student flies with the app open. The recording matches itself to the booking. When the instructor opens the lesson record, the actual track is there — the autorotation entry, the confined-area approach, the pattern that drifted.

The debrief stops being a memory test. No competitor can do this, because no competitor is also the EFB in the aircraft.

One thing we won't do: GPS time never silently becomes the billed number. Hobbs and tach are what your maintenance programme and your rental agreement are denominated in, and they are not the same quantity. The recording pre-fills a suggestion and flags a mismatch — a human number always wins.

Where this is up to.

Scheduling, training records and reporting are built and tested. We're onboarding a small number of schools by hand while the self-service setup is finished — so if you'd like to be one of them, the timing is good and you'll shape what gets built next.

Priced per airframe, not per pilot or per student.