Flight Schedule Pro is evolving. No longer just your scheduling system, it’s becoming the operational backbone for flight schools ready to lead the future of pilot development.
This latest release adds four powerful features to your toolkit: Discovery Flight Booking, Self-Service Payment Links, Pay-Later Payment Links with AR Center, and now, Checkride Tracking. Together, they tell a bigger story: one of turning spark into certification, without the operational strain.
Discovery Flights: Make First Flights Count, Automatically
First flights are where curiosity turns into commitment. With our new plug-and-play landing page, your team can now offer discovery bookings online fully branded, connected to payment, and designed to run 24/7 without manual coordination.
Prospective students (or gift-givers) can submit a request and pay in just a few clicks. Your team gets a real-time alert to follow up, finalize details, and get them on the schedule.
Why it matters:
- Capture revenue 24/7—booking requests roll in, even when the front desk is offline
- Save staff 10–15 minutes per inquiry—ditch the back-and-forth
- Provide a clean, modern first impression that builds trust from the start
- Keep the process in your control. Approve and schedule requests on your terms
Discovery flights are no longer a drag on your front desk. They’re a direct path into your funnel, powered by smart intent capture and payment in one step.
Ready to get started using Discovery Flights? Schedule time with Andy for next steps!
Self-Service Payment Links: Let Students Pay How They Want
Whether it’s headset rentals, sim sessions, or online ground school, you can now create payment links for any product in Flight Schedule Pro. Drop them into your site, emails, or student dashboards. No invoice needed, just the link.
The result? Revenue shows up pre-service, already accounted for in your billing system.
Why it matters:
- Cut repetitive billing tasks from your day
- Collect payment before services are delivered
- Remove barriers to entry for first-time and remote students
- Stay in sync with Billing Hub; no manual entry, no clean-up
This isn’t just convenience, it’s a better experience for students and a more sustainable model for your team.
Pay-Later Payment Links and AR Center: Collections Without the Chase
For post-service payments, Pay-Later Payment Links now connect seamlessly to a new Accounts Receivable Center. Students get an emailed invoice and a payment link with due dates and auto-pay options. Your team gets a live dashboard showing what’s unpaid and what’s scheduled to collect automatically.
Why it matters:
- Eliminate the back-and-forth of manual collections
- Reduce aged receivables and clean up your books
- Streamline your funding documentation for lenders
- Free up staff to focus on student progress, not payment progress
Billing doesn’t need to be a bottleneck. This is how you clean it up without piling on work.
Checkride Tracking: Elevate Outcomes, Protect Your Status
Your students’ future hinges on checkride performance and so does your operation. That’s why you can now log checkride results directly inside Flight Schedule Pro.
No more juggling external spreadsheets. Track passes, failures, and discontinuances in one place and unlock reports that surface trends like first-time pass rates and examiner performance.
Why it matters:
- Stay Part 141-ready by keeping first-time pass rates front and center
- Spot performance trends across instructors and DPEs to strengthen outcomes and curriculum
- Get one step closer to self-examining with clear, consistent checkride tracking
- Use pass-rate data as a marketing edge to attract more students and build credibility
- Surface red flags early before they impact student progress, funding eligibility, or your reputation
- Help students position themselves for careers, employers track failures, even if pilots don’t talk about them
Checkrides aren’t just a finish line, they’re a data point with career consequences. Now you can track them with clarity, not guesswork.
These Tools Work Better Together
Here’s how it all connects:
- Discovery Flights bring new students in
- Self-Service Links simplify early payments for tools and training
- Pay-Later Payment Links + AR Center handle the rest, without the paper trail
- Checkride Tracking ensures training results turn into career-ready certifications
This is what it looks like when your schedule, billing, and training data are in sync, not scattered across systems or spreadsheets. From first flight to final cert, Flight Schedule Pro is built to support every milestone of the pilot journey.
Built With You. Built for What's Next.
None of this came from guesswork. These features were shaped by operators like you; people in the office, at the counter, in the plane, and on the phone with students every day. We’re not just building features. We’re building alongside the aviation community to create a system that keeps you moving forward.
Already using Billing Hub and Flight Schedule Pro's integrated Payments? These tools are ready now:
- Getting Started with Discovery Flights
- Setting Up Self-Service Payment Links
- Using Pay-Later Payment Links & the AR Center
- Activating Checkride Tracking
Need help getting started?
Reach out to your Customer Success Manager or fill out this form.
Let’s make every milestone clearer. Every step of the journey stronger. Every outcome better.
The next generation of pilots is on their way and you're at the heart of their story.