Club scheduling software?

Any recommendations or comments about using one of the commercial
airplane scheduling software packages? I have used ScheduleMaster in
another club in the past and liked it. We currently are using a phone
scheduling system and I find it to be slow and cumbersome to use
unless the schedule is clear. We are not interested in a free program.
We want a secure system that we can rely on to stay up and running.
We will need to have the capability of both phone and computer
scheduling. I guess along the same lines, what do you use for
billing? We have 65 pilots and three planes.

Thanks for the help!

Dave B
near Seattle
RV6 (and no, it's not one of the club planes :-)

We use www.AircraftClubs.com


"Dave Burton" wrote in message
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Any recommendations or comments about using one of the commercial
airplane scheduling software packages? I have used ScheduleMaster in
another club in the past and liked it. We currently are using a phone
scheduling system and I find it to be slow and cumbersome to use
unless the schedule is clear. We are not interested in a free program.
We want a secure system that we can rely on to stay up and running.
We will need to have the capability of both phone and computer
scheduling. I guess along the same lines, what do you use for
billing? We have 65 pilots and three planes.

Thanks for the help!

Dave B
near Seattle
RV6 (and no, it's not one of the club planes :-)

We use MyFBO.com. It has billing, mx tracking, standby and much more

SAC

"n Prevost" wrote in message
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We use www.AircraftClubs.com


"Dave Burton" wrote in message
...
Any recommendations or comments about using one of the commercial
airplane scheduling software packages? I have used ScheduleMaster in
another club in the past and liked it. We currently are using a phone
scheduling system and I find it to be slow and cumbersome to use
unless the schedule is clear. We are not interested in a free program.
We want a secure system that we can rely on to stay up and running.
We will need to have the capability of both phone and computer
scheduling. I guess along the same lines, what do you use for
billing? We have 65 pilots and three planes.

Thanks for the help!

Dave B
near Seattle
RV6 (and no, it's not one of the club planes :-)

In a previous article, (Dave Burton) said:
Any recommendations or comments about using one of the commercial
airplane scheduling software packages? I have used ScheduleMaster in
another club in the past and liked it. We currently are using a phone

We're very happy with ScheduleMaster. One thing to check with the on-line
ones is to make sure they have a phone interface as well - a lot don't.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.

In article ,
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

In a previous article, (Dave Burton) said:
Any recommendations or comments about using one of the commercial
airplane scheduling software packages? I have used ScheduleMaster in
another club in the past and liked it. We currently are using a phone

We're very happy with ScheduleMaster. One thing to check with the on-line
ones is to make sure they have a phone interface as well - a lot don't.

I'll second the ScheduleMaster idea. We've been using them for 5 or 6
years and have been happy with the service.

(Dave Burton) wrote in news:41ccc469.23161950
@news.nwlink.com:

Any recommendations or comments about using one of the commercial
airplane scheduling software packages? ...

Our club simply created a user on Yahoo, and we all fill in our bookings on
the calendar there. Not fancy, but it works well for us. We also maintain a
mailing list of members in Yahoo mail to send messages to the membership.

Rob

That is a very novel idea.
Could you give more detail.


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Roy Page - Secretary
Taylorcraft Flying Club
28291 Misty Morning Lane
Beloit, OH 44609
http://www.taylorcraftflyingclub.org

"Rob McDonald" wrote in message
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(Dave Burton) wrote in news:41ccc469.23161950
@news.nwlink.com:

Any recommendations or comments about using one of the commercial
airplane scheduling software packages? ...

Our club simply created a user on Yahoo, and we all fill in our bookings
on
the calendar there. Not fancy, but it works well for us. We also maintain
a
mailing list of members in Yahoo mail to send messages to the membership.

Rob

"Roy Page" wrote in news:1Rzzd.2652$qf5.2253
@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net:

That is a very novel idea.
Could you give more detail.

Hi Roy,

Go to http://www.yahoo.com, click on "Free mail Sign Up"and register.

For the user name, use your club name, airplane registration, or
something else your members will remember. When choosing a password you
will have to compromise between security and ease of remembering for all
your members.

Sign in to Yahoo, then click on the mail icon, there will be tabs for
"Mail | Addresses | Calendar | Notepad"

You set up members email addresses and the club mailing list under
"Addresses" I didn't do that, so you are on your own there.

Under "Calendar" we find the "Month" view to be most useful. You can
enter bookings for a whole or part day. Bookings are recorded as
appointments.

In the title, which appears on the calendar we usually incude member
name, contact phone number and if it is a tentative booking. Recording
the planned return time here is useful, since yahoo only shows the start
time of the appointment.

The "Location" can be destination/local flight etc

The "Notes" may include number of people going, if it's overnight, etc

Location and notes will appear when you hold the cursor over the booking.

Most of us access this from home, but we have an old PC at the airport
and the cheapest dialup internet account available, which we use for
checking and updating bookings, and checking weather. Some members will
update their notes if they are away overnight (e.g. weather delays).

The "Make it your own" link on the first screen after you log in allows a
lot of customization.

This seems to meet all of our needs.

If you have any questions post them here and I'll try to answer them.

Have fun,
Rob