Part 61
Part 61 Flight School Software Without the Enterprise Overhead
Part 61 schools live on flexibility: renters, add-on ratings, discovery flights, and students who train around a full-time job. Sky Schedule gives that kind of school a real scheduling, billing, and records system that an owner can set up in an afternoon and run from a phone.
What a Part 61 school needs from software
Part 61 training does not require an approved syllabus, but it absolutely requires knowing who is current, who is checked out in which aircraft, who owes what, and which airplane is legal to fly today. Small schools often handle that with a paper binder, a shared calendar, and a card reader, and it works until the day it does not: a renter flies an aircraft past its inspection, or a student's balance quietly grows for two months.
Sky Schedule replaces the binder and the shared calendar with one system that knows the rules. Reservations check currency and documents. Complete-flight creates the invoice. The owner sees the whole school on one screen.
Renter checkout, currency, and insurance in the booking
- Aircraft checkouts and instructor sign-off requirements gate which aircraft a renter can book
- Medical, flight review, renter insurance, and any document you require, tracked with expiration dates
- Rental agreements, waivers, and documents collected during onboarding
- Card on file and account balances so nobody chases money after the flight
Discovery flights and enrollment that run themselves
For most Part 61 schools the discovery flight is the sales funnel. Sky Schedule's website forms let a prospect book and pay for a discovery flight directly on your site, drop into the CRM, and get followed up automatically. When they decide to train, enrollment collects documents, sets up payment, and creates the student profile without a second data entry.
Priced and sized for small schools
Sky Schedule is designed so a two-aircraft school gets the same scheduling logic, billing, and records as a larger academy without paying for modules it will never open. Setup does not require a consultant, and the team walks every school through onboarding personally.
Room to grow into Part 141
Schools that later pursue Part 141 approval do not need to switch systems. Syllabus tracking, stage checks, and course reporting are already in Sky Schedule, so the records you have been keeping under Part 61 carry forward.
Sky Schedule part 61 features
Aircraft & instructor scheduling
Live aircraft, instructor, and room availability with conflict checks, reservation types, recurring bookings, and dispatch in one calendar.
Learn moreBilling & payments
Hobbs and tach based invoicing, card on file, account balances, block-time packages, and instructor payroll tracking without re-keying anything.
Learn moreCRM & enrollment
Website forms, discovery flight booking, lead follow-up, and onboarding that turns an inquiry into an enrolled student with documents and payment on file.
Learn moreMobile app for students and instructors
Students book, upload documents, and complete flights from their phone. Instructors run their day from the same app.
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Is Sky Schedule too much software for a small Part 61 school?
No. Small schools use the same scheduling, billing, and records core, and most are set up in a day. You only configure the features you use.
Can renters and non-students book aircraft?
Yes. Renters have their own role with aircraft checkouts, currency tracking, and card on file, and they book within the rules you set.
Can students pay for a discovery flight on our website?
Yes. Embeddable forms let prospects book and pay for a discovery flight, and the booking lands in the CRM and on the schedule.
What happens if we later become a Part 141 school?
Nothing changes in your data. Turn on course and stage-check tracking for the students who need it and keep running Part 61 students as before.
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