Thanks to all who commented regarding the online scheduling. Sounds
like everyone found it a positive.

I do wonder, though, whether a purely internet based system is more
targeted towards "flying clubs", which generally don't have the
resources to be fully staffed.

Our school has 40 instructors (lots part-time) and 20 airplanes. We
normally have two people behind the desk from 7 am to 8 pm, 7 days per
week, 363 days per year. I have always been able to schedule by
making a 30 second telephone transaction, which I could handle while
driving down the street.

I suppose they would still offer that service, though it will now take
them a lot longer to actually record my flight than it would have by
just writing on the paper schedule.

I'm a software developer, so I'm definitely not against
computerization, but I've seen enough poor implementations to
understand that not all operations are improved by computerizing them.

A better implementation, in my view, would be to have a locally
installed computer program to do the scheduling, and then providing
internet access to that data, rather than having the entire
application internet-based. A true Windows program is faster and
could provide a much better user-interface.

Our support staff, and flight instructors, are all against this online
scheduling, and are betting that the schedule book will be back in a
couple of weeks.