Preferred aircraft New
Set up to three preferred planes for each student or pilot. The Book screen picks their first choice that isn't grounded, and if it's full that day it shows every plane with theirs first.
Features
Everything TailSlot does, on one page
Every feature is included on every plan. Items marked New were added recently; we update this page every time something ships.
What's new
- Preferred aircraft. Give each student or pilot up to three preferred planes; booking starts with theirs.
- Owner who is also the CFI, and instructor ratings. Mark an admin or front-desk account as also an instructor, so the club owner who teaches shows up in instructor pickers and sees those flights as their own. Instructors carry CFII and MEI ratings, shown beside their name wherever you pick one.
- Day timeline on the Book screen. Every plane and instructor for the day in one view, 6 am to 10 pm, with booked time, maintenance and grounded aircraft. Tap an open spot to start a booking there. Members see other people's bookings only as busy time; staff see who is flying.
- Good flying day pushes. When tomorrow's forecast clears your thresholds and a plane is sitting free, the members who are current and checked out in it get one push with the booking screen prefilled. Weekdays only by default, one per member a week, never late at night, and easy to turn off.
- Damage walkaround photos. Nose, sides and tail at check-out (and check-in if you like), shown beside the previous flight's photos so the pilot can compare, with a one-tap squawk that carries the photo. Staff see the last two walkarounds on any tail side by side.
- One account for every school you fly with. One sign-in across schools and clubs, a school switcher, and your medical and certificates shared with the schools you choose.
- Instructor duty-limit warning. A heads-up when a booking would give an instructor more than 8 hours of dual in 24 hours (14 CFR 61.195(a)), counting flights and sim sessions.
- Your own web address. Run TailSlot at an address on your school's domain, like booking.yourschool.com, with the certificate handled for you.
- Activity log. See who booked, moved, cancelled, checked out, grounded or changed anything, with the before and after values, plus a History on every booking and aircraft.
- Safety reporting, AD tracking, block-time packages, a front-desk kiosk and a booking widget for your website. Anonymous hazard reports with a risk matrix and corrective actions; FAA airworthiness directives matched to each aircraft for your mechanic to review; prepaid hour packages; tablet check-out and check-in with a PIN; and discovery-flight booking on your own website. Plus a FlightAware link on every aircraft.
- Two-way calendar sync. Connect Outlook or Google Calendar and your flights appear in your calendar, while your busy times block bookings.
- Ideas for TailSlot. Anyone at your school can send ideas straight to the TailSlot team from the app and see what's planned.
- Custom roles. Create roles like Chief pilot, Club treasurer or Dispatcher, choose exactly what each can do, give one person several, and map them from Microsoft Entra.
- Aircraft details from the tail number. Type an N-number and TailSlot fills in the make, model, year, serial number and engine from the FAA registry, and warns you 90 days before a registration expires.
- Weather go/no-go, book a mission, reports, club hub, online join and discovery flights, sims and rooms, student tools, and meter photos. Eight features in one release, built from what schools and clubs told us they miss.
- Branding and color schemes. Your logo and colors across the app and emails, light and dark mode.
- Secure sign-in and faster lists. Email and password sign-in with authenticator-app two-step verification, email invites for staff and members, and searchable, sortable lists for aircraft and people.
- Maintenance depth, dispatch, billing, pilot currency, club rules and training records. The six most requested features from schools and clubs switching from other scheduling tools.
- Logbook export, Slack and Teams alerts, calendar feeds, and a switching wizard for Flight Circle, Flight Schedule Pro, MyFBO and spreadsheets.
- First release: CFI + aircraft + student booking, squawks that ground the plane, TFR and IFR alerts, and roles for everyone on the field.
Scheduling
Day timeline on the Book screen New
See every plane and instructor for the day in one view, 6 am to 10 pm: booked time, maintenance windows and grounded aircraft, with a line for right now. Step through days, switch between planes and instructors, and tap an open spot to start a booking at that time on that plane. Members see other people's time only as busy; staff see who is flying.
Good flying day pushes New
Tomorrow looks VFR and the 172 is free from 9 to 1? The members who are current and checked out in it get one push naming the plane and the window, and a tap opens the booking screen prefilled. Set the thresholds, the days and quiet hours; members can opt out with one tap.
Student, CFI and aircraft in one booking
Only slots where all three are free are offered, starting with the student's usual instructor, with a cost estimate before you confirm.
Club booking rules New
Limits per member, how far ahead people can book, weekend and holiday prime-time caps, blackout dates, and late-cancel fees that waive themselves when the weather is IFR.
Standby list New
Join standby for a busy slot. When someone cancels, the next person in line gets an email with a claim link.
Recurring lessons and multi-day trips New
Book weekly lessons as a series, shift the whole series in one step, and book overnight trips with destination checks.
Calendar feeds New
Subscribe to your flights, or an aircraft's schedule, in Outlook or Google Calendar. Instructor busy time blocks booking.
Book a mission New
Say what you want to fly, like a $100 hamburger with two friends, and TailSlot proposes the aircraft, instructor and time that fit, with weight and balance and fuel already checked.
Simulators, rooms and gear New
Book your sim, briefing rooms and loaner headsets on the same schedule. Sim sessions go straight into the logbook, and multi-base clubs can filter by base.
Pre-book a training stage New
Book a whole stage, like two lessons a week for six weeks, with the student's usual instructor in one step. Every conflict is flagged up front.
Lists that scale with your fleet New
Aircraft and people are searchable, sortable lists with filters like grounded, due soon and open squawks, so a 30-plane school finds what it needs in a second.
A home-screen app, no app store New
Add TailSlot to your iPhone or Android home screen and it opens full screen like an app, with push notifications for squawks, weather, standby offers and overdue checks. Every screen works on a phone, and there's nothing to download or update. How the app works
Maintenance
Squawks with ticket numbers
Pilots file squawks with a photo. Each gets a ticket number, the reporter gets email updates, and critical ones ground the plane and warn everyone booked on it.
Inspection program New
Annual, 100-hour, ELT, transponder, altimeter/static, VOR check, oil changes and ADs per aircraft, projected against the schedule. An overdue grounding item takes the plane off the schedule.
Work orders New
Work orders with tasks, a labor timer for mechanics on the ramp, and parts pulled from inventory, plus an out-of-service window on the calendar.
Parts inventory New
Part numbers, quantity on hand, low-stock warnings and serial numbers installed or removed.
A&P / IA return-to-service sign-off New
A&P or IA signs with their certificate number and a PIN. TailSlot prints the logbook entry with 43.9/43.11 wording and keeps a tamper-evident copy.
Smart inspection scheduling New
TailSlot suggests the three least disruptive windows for every inspection coming due, then reserves one and tells affected pilots which planes are free instead.
Aircraft details from the tail number New
Type an N-number when you add a plane and TailSlot fills in the make, model, year, serial number and engine from the FAA aircraft registry. Every field stays editable, and admins get a heads-up 90 days before a registration expires.
Hobbs and tach read from a photo New
Snap the meters at check-out and check-in and TailSlot reads the numbers for the pilot to confirm, with a hint when a drum sits between digits or a number looks far off. Photos stay with the flight, and readings that don't match are flagged for the front desk.
Oil consumption trend New
Oil added at each check-in is tracked per aircraft, with an alert when use climbs above that engine's normal.
Dispatch and safety
One account for every school you fly with New
Pilots who fly with more than one school or club use one TailSlot sign-in and switch between them from the menu. Their medical, certificates and other personal documents are uploaded once and shared with the schools they choose; when one school verifies a document, the others can accept that check. Bookings, training records and billing stay with each school.
Instructor duty-limit warning New
When a booking would give an instructor more than 8 hours of dual in any 24 hours (14 CFR 61.195(a)), the booker and front desk get a warning. Flights count their actual Hobbs once checked in, sim sessions count too, ground and briefings don't. It never blocks, and bookings made past the limit show in the activity log.
Aircraft dispatch with squawk acknowledgement New
Before a flight, the pilot sees open and deferred squawks and confirms they've reviewed them, alongside the METAR, TFRs and forecast.
Damage walkaround photos New
Four photos at check-out, nose, left, right and tail, tied to the booking, pilot and aircraft, with the previous flight's photo beside each one to compare. Spot something? One tap files a squawk with the photo. Optional or required per aircraft, kept for as long as you choose.
Overdue aircraft alerts New
If a plane isn't back, the pilot gets a "still flying?" check, then staff are alerted, and the next pilot hears the plane may be late.
Weather go/no-go New
An hour-by-hour strip with crosswind for the best runway on every booking, checked against each pilot's personal minimums. A verified weather cancel waives the late fee and offers the next three slots with a better forecast.
Weight and balance and risk assessment New
A live CG envelope chart at check-out and a short flight risk assessment. Amber scores go to a CFI or chief pilot to approve from their phone; red is a no-go. Weight and balance
TFR and IFR warnings
Live FAA TFRs and TAFs at your departure and destination, on every booking and by email before the flight.
Pilot currency: medical and flight review tracking New
Medical, flight review, renter's insurance, aircraft checkouts and 90-day, night and IFR recency are checked at booking, with expiry reminders.
TSA flight training check New
Student lesson bookings wait until U.S. citizenship proof is verified or TSA approval is recorded.
Slack and Teams alerts New
Squawks, groundings, overdue aircraft and weather go to the right staff channel, like maintenance or dispatch.
Billing and fuel
Invoices at check-in New
Hobbs or tach time, instruction and fees become an invoice the moment a flight is checked in, minus any fuel credit.
Flying club dues and prepaid flight funds New
Every member has an account with balance, prepaid funds and history. Member tiers, monthly dues, A/R aging and CSV statements are built in.
Fuel and reimbursement New
Pilots log fuel with a receipt photo and are credited per your club's rules. Fuel card statements import as CSV.
Card payments Coming soon
Cards on file and payment links through Stripe, with each school as its own merchant.
QuickBooks Online Coming soon
Invoices and payments sync to QuickBooks Online so nobody retypes them.
Training and logbooks
Syllabi and lesson grading New
Private, Instrument and Commercial courses to start from, lesson-by-lesson grading on a phone, and progress against 61.109 minimums.
Electronic endorsements New
AC 61-65 endorsement wording, signed by the instructor with a PIN. Solo and solo cross-country bookings require the right endorsement.
What can I fly? New
Every pilot sees each airplane as ready to fly or exactly what's missing, like a checkout or a few more hours of dual, with one tap to book it.
Checkride predictor and dropout alerts New
A checkride date that updates with how often a student flies, and a friendly nudge (plus a note to the instructor) when a student stops flying.
Parent and sponsor view New
Parents and sponsors get their own sign-in to see upcoming lessons, progress and invoices, and nothing else.
8710 time summary New
A printable summary laid out like the FAA 8710-1 "Record of Pilot Time", ready for IACRA.
Logbook export to ForeFlight and MyFlightbook New
Send flights to ForeFlight or MyFlightbook, with dual given and received credited correctly, and no duplicates on re-import.
Your data and your people
Import from Flight Circle, Flight Schedule Pro or MyFBO New
Drop in exports from Flight Circle, Flight Schedule Pro, MyFBO or a spreadsheet. TailSlot works out which file is which and lists problems in plain English. You can undo an import for 30 days.
Export everything New
One zip with every record in the same format, plus photos. Your data is yours.
Admin who is also the instructor New
Most flight club owners run the schedule and teach. Mark a staff account as also an instructor, from a new instructor record or an existing one, and they keep their admin sign-in, appear in every instructor picker and on the day timeline, and see their own lessons as theirs. Each instructor shows their ratings (CFI, CFII, MEI) beside their name.
Roles for everyone
Admin, front desk, instructor, student, renter, maintenance and maintenance manager each see what they need.
Secure sign-in with two-step verification New
Everyone signs in with their email and a password, plus a code from an authenticator app. Admins invite staff and members by email and can require two-step sign-in for everyone.
Activity log New
Every change to bookings, check-ins, squawks, aircraft, people, billing and settings is recorded with who made it, when, and what changed. Filter it, export it to CSV, and open the History on any booking or aircraft. Entries can't be edited or deleted.
Safety reporting (SMS) New
Anyone can report a hazard, incident or near miss, anonymously if they choose. Safety managers score each one on a likelihood × severity risk matrix, assign corrective actions with owners and due dates, and see trends over time. Safety reporting
Airworthiness directives matched to your fleet New
Every month TailSlot checks FAA ADs against each aircraft's make, model and engine and lists the possible matches for your mechanic to review: not applicable, complied, recurring with next due, or open. Recurring ADs alert maintenance before they come due. AD tracking
Prepaid block-time packages New
Sell "10 hours in the 172" as a prepaid package. Check-in draws down the hours automatically, members see what's left, packages can expire, and you see the prepaid balance you owe.
Front-desk kiosk New
Put a tablet at the front desk: pilots check out and check in with a personal PIN, report squawks with a photo, and see today's board and the weather. Each tablet is paired to a base and can be switched off instantly.
Discovery flights on your own website New
Paste one line into your website and visitors can book a discovery flight or buy a gift certificate without leaving your site, with real open times and your colors. Bookings arrive as leads.
Two-way calendar sync New
Connect Outlook (Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com) or Google Calendar and your TailSlot flights appear in your calendar and follow every change. Busy times in your calendar block bookings, so instructors can't be double-booked. Only times are read, never titles.
Send ideas straight to the TailSlot team New
Students, renters, instructors and staff can suggest features from the app, and see each idea's status (planned, in progress, shipped) as the TailSlot team works through them. Admins choose which roles can send ideas.
Custom roles New
Beyond the seven built-in roles, create your own, like Chief pilot, Club treasurer or Dispatcher. Pick exactly what each one can do (scheduling, maintenance, training, billing, reports, club hub), give a person more than one, and map them from Microsoft Entra app roles or groups.
Your brand, your colors New
Your school's name, logo and colors on the app, the sign-in page and every email, with light and dark mode for each person. White-label is available.
Your own web address New
Run TailSlot at an address on your school's domain, like booking.yourschool.com. Add one DNS record, and the certificate, renewals and routing are handled for you; the address is verified as yours before it goes live.
Key cabinets Coming soon
Smart key cabinets (Keycafe, KeyNest, igloohome) release only the booked plane's key, with a code sent just before the flight and an alert if the key isn't returned.
Online join and e-signatures New
A branded Join page where new members apply, upload their certificate, medical and insurance, and sign your agreement and waiver on their phone, with a tamper-evident signed copy.
Discovery flights and leads New
Sell discovery flights with real open times and gift certificates, and follow every lead from first contact to enrolled student on one board. Discovery flights
Club hub New
Targeted emails (like everyone flying tomorrow), pinned announcements members acknowledge, a document library for POHs and SOPs, and club events with RSVPs on the same calendar.
Reports and fair booking New
Utilization, revenue and instructor reports with CSV export and a board dashboard. Clubs can set a monthly prime-time budget and run a checkable holiday lottery.
Public API and webhooks New
A documented, read-only REST API with scoped keys and signed webhooks for bookings, cancellations, squawks and groundings.
Single sign-on and SCIM with Microsoft Entra New
Sign in with your organization (SAML), create and remove accounts automatically with SCIM, and control each person's TailSlot role with Entra app roles or groups. Included on every plan and optional.
Get early access
TailSlot is opening to its first US flight schools and clubs. Tell us about your operation and we'll be in touch.