Need a web-based airplane scheduler? Look what I found!

[Bob Chilcoat]

Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based
system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto and
which will keep a central calendar for us. We had looked at a commercial
"flying club scheduler" that would do everything we wanted, but it cost
money. (OK, not a lot, but we try and keep our $'s for airworthiness
stuff.) Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/

They provide a free service to create group-access calendars, which can
easily be used to schedule an airplane. We've put our schedule up on a
calender and defined the "group" as the four partners, each with a separate
User ID and Password. Each partner can book the plane by logging on and
entering a date and time. We've set it up so only the partners can access
the calender, and only the one making a reservation can change their
reservation. There are lots of options, but this seems to work for us. As
long as you don't want a "custom" calendar, there is no charge. We've only
starting to use it, but I think it will work very well, and the price is
right.

I have no interest in this company, except that I'm really excited to find
it, and suspect that that the site could solve a lot of problems for the
many clubs and partnerships that participate in these groups. The only
downside I've found is that only "custom" calendars can be set up to send an
e-mail any time someone makes a reservation or change. That would have been
nice, but I think this will still work well without it.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America

[Larry Dighera]

On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:57:41 -0400, "Bob Chilcoat"
> wrote in Message-Id:
>:

>Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based
>system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto and
>which will keep a central calendar for us. We had looked at a commercial
>"flying club scheduler" that would do everything we wanted, but it cost
>money. (OK, not a lot, but we try and keep our $'s for airworthiness
>stuff.) Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/
>
>They provide a free service to create group-access calendars, which can
>easily be used to schedule an airplane. We've put our schedule up on a
>calender and defined the "group" as the four partners, each with a separate
>User ID and Password. Each partner can book the plane by logging on and
>entering a date and time. We've set it up so only the partners can access
>the calender, and only the one making a reservation can change their
>reservation. There are lots of options, but this seems to work for us. As
>long as you don't want a "custom" calendar, there is no charge. We've only
>starting to use it, but I think it will work very well, and the price is
>right.

How do you prevent one pilot from scheduling all the holidays?

We used to use a weekly Priority Pilot rotation system.
--

Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts.
-- Larry Dighera,

[Bob Chilcoat]

We operate our partnership on a first-come, first-served basis, but anyone
can negotiate with someone else if they need the plane for something
specific. Up to now, we've just used a "send an e-mail to everyone to book
the plane" system. It works, and so far, we have not had anyone hogging the
plane. I suppose if someone is unreasonable, we can deal with it at a
partner's meeting. The advantage of this calendar is that everyone has
immediate access to the plane schedule, and everyone's data is updated at
the same time. Except for Oshkosh, it's rare that anyone books the plane
more than two or three months in advance.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America

"Larry Dighera" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:57:41 -0400, "Bob Chilcoat"
> > wrote in Message-Id:
> >:
>
> >Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based
> >system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto
and
> >which will keep a central calendar for us. We had looked at a commercial
> >"flying club scheduler" that would do everything we wanted, but it cost
> >money. (OK, not a lot, but we try and keep our $'s for airworthiness
> >stuff.) Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/
> >
> >They provide a free service to create group-access calendars, which can
> >easily be used to schedule an airplane. We've put our schedule up on a
> >calender and defined the "group" as the four partners, each with a
separate
> >User ID and Password. Each partner can book the plane by logging on and
> >entering a date and time. We've set it up so only the partners can
access
> >the calender, and only the one making a reservation can change their
> >reservation. There are lots of options, but this seems to work for us.
As
> >long as you don't want a "custom" calendar, there is no charge. We've
only
> >starting to use it, but I think it will work very well, and the price is
> >right.
>
> How do you prevent one pilot from scheduling all the holidays?
>
> We used to use a weekly Priority Pilot rotation system.
> --
>
> Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts.
> -- Larry Dighera,

[Malcolm Teas]

"Bob Chilcoat" > wrote in message >...
> Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based
> system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto and
> which will keep a central calendar for us....

You might try http://www.fyreflyte.com/. It was designed by a
software engineer in a plane partnership that didn't like what he
found out there for scheduling. It's easy to use, cheap, and works
very well.

-Malcolm Teas

[Brad Johnson]

"Bob Chilcoat" > wrote in message >...
> Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based
> system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto and
> which will keep a central calendar for us. We had looked at a commercial
> "flying club scheduler" that would do everything we wanted, but it cost
> money. (OK, not a lot, but we try and keep our $'s for airworthiness
> stuff.) Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/
>
> They provide a free service to create group-access calendars, which can
> easily be used to schedule an airplane. We've put our schedule up on a
> calender and defined the "group" as the four partners, each with a separate
> User ID and Password. Each partner can book the plane by logging on and
> entering a date and time. We've set it up so only the partners can access
> the calender, and only the one making a reservation can change their
> reservation. There are lots of options, but this seems to work for us. As
> long as you don't want a "custom" calendar, there is no charge. We've only
> starting to use it, but I think it will work very well, and the price is
> right.
>
> I have no interest in this company, except that I'm really excited to find
> it, and suspect that that the site could solve a lot of problems for the
> many clubs and partnerships that participate in these groups. The only
> downside I've found is that only "custom" calendars can be set up to send an
> e-mail any time someone makes a reservation or change. That would have been
> nice, but I think this will still work well without it.


We sue www.calnet.com the same way. It is free as well.

[Ricky Robbins]

On 21 May 2004 09:30:15 -0700, (Brad Johnson)
wrote:

>
>We sue www.calnet.com the same way. It is free as well.

What'd they do to tick you off?

8)

Ricky

[Greg Hopp]

"Bob Chilcoat" > wrote in message >...
Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/
>
I've been using it for at least four years. First with the club, and
now with my partner on our plane. It gets the job done, and I put
recurring items such as the hangar rent due, annual, BFR's, on it.
Easy as pie to setup and use.

Greg Hopp
N4691X

[Frode Berg]

Hi!

I will also recommend www.flightschedulepro.com

Great system! You get the first 30 days free, then it's quite cheap after
that.

Frode

"Greg Hopp" > skrev i melding
om...
> "Bob Chilcoat" > wrote in message
>...
> Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/
> >
> I've been using it for at least four years. First with the club, and
> now with my partner on our plane. It gets the job done, and I put
> recurring items such as the hangar rent due, annual, BFR's, on it.
> Easy as pie to setup and use.
>
> Greg Hopp
> N4691X

[Brad Johnson]

(Brad Johnson) wrote in message >...
> "Bob Chilcoat" > wrote in message >...
> > Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based
> > system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto and
> > which will keep a central calendar for us. We had looked at a commercial
> > "flying club scheduler" that would do everything we wanted, but it cost
> > money. (OK, not a lot, but we try and keep our $'s for airworthiness
> > stuff.) Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/
> >
> > They provide a free service to create group-access calendars, which can
> > easily be used to schedule an airplane. We've put our schedule up on a
> > calender and defined the "group" as the four partners, each with a separate
> > User ID and Password. Each partner can book the plane by logging on and
> > entering a date and time. We've set it up so only the partners can access
> > the calender, and only the one making a reservation can change their
> > reservation. There are lots of options, but this seems to work for us. As
> > long as you don't want a "custom" calendar, there is no charge. We've only
> > starting to use it, but I think it will work very well, and the price is
> > right.
> >
> > I have no interest in this company, except that I'm really excited to find
> > it, and suspect that that the site could solve a lot of problems for the
> > many clubs and partnerships that participate in these groups. The only
> > downside I've found is that only "custom" calendars can be set up to send an
> > e-mail any time someone makes a reservation or change. That would have been
> > nice, but I think this will still work well without it.
>
>
> We sue www.calnet.com the same way. It is free as well.

OOPS. We use (not sue) www.calsnet.com (not calnet.com). Soory for the fat finger.

[Rene Felker]

We use


www.schedulemaster.com

does some accounting stuff also.

>

[Andrew Gideon]

Rene Felker wrote:

> www.schedulemaster.com
>
> does some accounting stuff also.

Actually, they do much more than that. It's actually pretty impressive the
"modules" they provided. They've a nice download into Quicken (which is
great for billing hourly time), a "maintenance" module that seems pretty
flexible, support for various scheduling rules, and so on.

My club uses this, and they keep adding features we like. They take input
from us, and likely from all their other customers, and use it well.

I expect that this is overkill for a partnership, though. For our club
(flyingclub.org), it's terrific.

- Andrew

[[email protected]]

We lucky I guess, 2 of our partners have Exchange servers...

We just set up an account on one of them, and use Web Outlook
to allow all partners access for scheduling, including maintenance
times, snags , correspondence etc


Dave



On Tue, 25 May 2004 18:28:49 -0400, Andrew Gideon >
wrote:

>Rene Felker wrote:
>
>> www.schedulemaster.com
>>
>> does some accounting stuff also.
>
>Actually, they do much more than that. It's actually pretty impressive the
>"modules" they provided. They've a nice download into Quicken (which is
>great for billing hourly time), a "maintenance" module that seems pretty
>flexible, support for various scheduling rules, and so on.
>
>My club uses this, and they keep adding features we like. They take input
>from us, and likely from all their other customers, and use it well.
>
>I expect that this is overkill for a partnership, though. For our club
>(flyingclub.org), it's terrific.
>
> - Andrew