Fellowship Aviation Fits the Software to a Small Georgia School
A small Part 61 school near Athens set up Sky Schedule around its own rules, so the schedule and the student record agree before a flight goes out.
Fellowship Aviation is a Part 61 flight school at Cy Nunnally Memorial Airport (KD73) in Monroe, Georgia, about 25 minutes from Athens. It is a small operation with a short list of Cessnas and a long list of things every student and renter needs on file. Rather than bend its process to fit a generic tool, Fellowship set up Sky Schedule to match the way it already runs, so the schedule and the student record agree before a flight goes out.
Flight training, built on fellowship
The name is the mission. Fellowship's stated goal is safe, affordable, and professional flight training and aircraft rental, with safety at the center of every decision. Its other core values are quality, in the instruction and in how the airplanes are cared for, and community. The school believes flying is better done together, and it wants to be a trusted local resource for pilots in Monroe, Athens, and the northeast Atlanta suburbs.
Training runs under Part 61 and covers Private, Instrument, and Commercial, with personalized instruction for each student. Prospective pilots can start with a discovery flight, and financing is available. Certificated pilots can rent the school's Cessna 172s and its Cessna 182 once a Fellowship instructor has checked them out and approved them to act as pilot in command.
When the record and the schedule disagreed
Before Sky Schedule, Fellowship kept student records apart from the live schedule. A booking on the calendar did not always match what was on file. Endorsements, balances, and required documents were checked by hand at checkout, which meant rework and delays for a small team that would rather be flying.
Set up around Fellowship's rules
Every school does a few things its own way, and Fellowship needed software that would accept that. Sky Schedule let the school build its rules into the setup instead of keeping them in someone's head.
Onboarding comes first. Fellowship's onboarding forms capture what each student needs before training starts. Our enrollment page shows how onboarding is built.
Activity types carry their own requirements. When a flight is booked, the booking form flags any document that particular flight needs and the pilot doesn't have, and the dispatch report checks again before the airplane leaves.
Billing follows the flight. Completed flights feed invoicing, and the student's saved card is there to charge, so the desk is not running a second process after every lesson.
When something needed to work differently, Fellowship worked it out with the Sky Schedule team directly instead of settling for a workaround.
Time back for a small team
The schedule and the record now stay in step. Staff spend less time cross-checking files before a flight and more of it with the students and renters the school is named for.
