Online Scheduling

My FBO uses schedulemaster.com as well. It's not the prettiest
interface but it works well. There's also a phone interface if you
don't like computers : )

The FBO has 20+ planes and at least 100+ active and somewhat active
renters/students. The paper system was a pain, to schedule something
you had to call it in- and you were on hold because someone else was
calling in something. And of course the other caller wanted to
schedule 10 lessons, but a few days were already booked and they
wanted to see the schedule for other days and planes and..... Online
booking is soooo much eaiser now. Just log on and click on the
day/plane and you're done. Schedule/delete sessions in a few clicks,
do a search for all your upcoming (or previous) sessions, it's all a
breeze.

It did take a while to get used to. It seemed like the owner and old
school pilots didn't take to computers well. But when the owner saw
that he could get rid of a front desk person because of it..... (as
least I see one less person now : )

-lance smith


Andrew Sarangan wrote in message .158...
The club I belong to uses www.schedulemaster.com. Another FBO I instruct
at uses paper scheduling. There is a world of difference between the two.
However, I have not been able to convince the FBO that an online
scheduling is a good way to go. Probably the main reason for this is the
management is not very comfortable with computers.


Greg Esres wrote in
:

Our flight school is currently trying to move to an online, internet
based scheduling system, using a service provided by "MyFBO".

The idea is to schedule via the internet (even when standing at the
counter at the flight school) for all flights that occur after the
current day. Every morning, the staff will print out a schedule for
the day and any changes for that day must be done to the paper
schedule.

The consensus of the flight instructors and staff is that the
interface is extremely difficult to use, and slow. There will be only
one computer available for all users to make changes to the schedule
and the internet connection is a bit flakey. While frequent users
will probably be able to learn the system, it seems unlikely that
students/renters will develop any kind of proficiency with the system.
As far as I can tell, there are no contingency plans about what to do
when the system goes down.

Does anyone have an experience with online scheduling with large
flight schools? How well did it work?

Thanks for any thoughts.