From First Lesson to CFI on One Record in Central Texas

Pegasus Flight School has trained pilots outside Waco since 2017. It's a Part 61 school, but a structured one: instructors teach from a syllabus, and its Professional Pilot Program takes a student with no experience through five courses to a flight instructor certificate. With two airports and a fleet that runs from light sport trainers to a twin, keeping that path on one record is the hard part. Pegasus does it in Sky Schedule.

Founded by a career instructor

The founder started Pegasus after more than 10 years as a chief flight instructor at another school. He's also a corporate pilot and teaches a corporate flying course at Baylor University. The school's stated aim is to make better pilots and better people, and its tagline is Fly the Difference.

Pegasus is based at McGregor Executive Airport and added a second location at Draughon-Miller Central Texas Regional Airport in Temple. Instructors fly seven days a week, sunup to sundown, and the school promises to fly the student's schedule rather than the other way around.

Five courses, many airplanes, two airports

The Professional Pilot Program stacks five courses: Private Pilot, Instrument Rating, Commercial Single Engine, a Commercial Multi-Engine add-on, and Certified Flight Instructor. Around it sit Light Sport training, CFII and multi-engine instructor courses, ground school, flight reviews, a simulator, and an FAA Part 107 drone course.

The fleet matches that range. Two Pipistrel Alpha Trainers handle light sport and early single-engine training. A line of Cessna 172s, from a 145-horsepower H model to a 195-horsepower R172K, makes up most of the fleet, along with a Piper PA-28-140. A Cessna 310R covers multi-engine.

A student in the program might start in a Pipistrel, build instrument time in a glass-panel 172 at Temple, and finish multi-engine work in the 310. That's a lot of airplanes and instructors touching one student's training, and the syllabus only works if every one of them can see where the student is.

Inside Sky Schedule

The syllabus, built in

Sky Schedule can take a school's PDF syllabus and use AI to build the training program from it: title, Part 61 or 141, lessons, and steps. Programs can also be built by hand. For Pegasus, that means the syllabus instructors already teach from becomes the structure every lesson is logged and graded against. Transfer credits are supported, and an enrollment PDF shows where a student stands. More on training records.

Students in two towns, on their phones

Students at both airports use the Sky Schedule app on iPhone and iPad to check the schedule, request lesson times, and see their training progress. With instructors flying seven days a week, students can find open times without calling the office.

Leads into the program

The Professional Pilot Program is a big decision, and prospective students usually ask a lot of questions first. Pegasus tracks those inquiries in Sky Schedule's CRM, emails leads from its own inbox with their replies saved on the lead, and moves them across a pipeline until they enroll. Converting a lead to a student takes one click, and the training record starts there.

The difference for students

A Pegasus student moving from Private to CFI sees one continuous record across five courses, more than one airport, and several airplanes. Instructors at McGregor and Temple read the same lesson history and grades. And people who asked about the program get a follow-up between the first call and the first lesson.

Pegasus calls its approach Fly the Difference. Sky Schedule keeps the paperwork behind it consistent from the first lesson to the CFI checkride.