Meet Take Flight Ops

Premier aviation software.

Flight schools, flying clubs and maintenance shops. Scheduling, dispatch, maintenance, training records and billing in one system — with the regulations enforced as you work, not written up afterwards.

Part 61Part 91Part 141Part 43TSA 49 CFR 1552
A day on the schedule: every tail in the fleet across one day, each one marked airworthy, due soon or grounded, with flights booked against them and the hours left to the next inspection
Not sure which of this applies to you? Two or three questions, and we will take you to the part that does.

Who it's for

Each role opens to its own work.

One system of record across a school, a club or a shop. A mechanic, an owner, a chief pilot, an instructor and a student each see the part they answer for — and not the rest of it.

MaintenanceThe whole repair, start to signature, without paper+
  • Open the work order from a squawk, an inspection coming due, or an AD — it carries the tail, the times, and everything already open against that aircraft.
  • Order what's needed from inside the job, and receive it when it lands. The stock count moves on its own.
  • Do the work with tasks checked off as they go, parts pulled against the tail, and labor hours logged as they're worked.
  • Price it — parts at cost, labor at your rate, totalled as the job runs and rolled into maintenance cost per flight hour by tail.
  • Return it to service signed with the certificate number. The signature binds to the record, the logbook entry writes itself, and the aircraft clears for dispatch the moment it's signed.
  • Documents live with the tail — logbook pages, 337s, weight and balance, AD compliance, current version first.
Owner & managerThe numbers you actually ask for, without asking+
  • Cost per flight hour by tail. Every part and labor hour rolls up automatically, so the aircraft that's quietly losing money is visible.
  • Revenue and receivables from the same record that dispatched the flight — no reconciling the schedule against the books.
  • Instructor pay computed from hours actually flown, ready to hand to payroll or QuickBooks.
  • Rates, fees and fuel surcharges set per aircraft and per location, with every change audited.
  • Reports on a schedule — hours flown, cancellations by reason, missing Hobbs, expiring documents — emailed without anyone running them.
Chief pilotOversight of people and the fleet, without the finance keys+
  • Every schedule and every instructor in one view, or just your own students with one tap.
  • Accounts and roles — add instructors and students, assign qualifications, promote another chief pilot.
  • 141 designation per aircraft, including staging a new tail as pending FSDO approval so nobody can use it early.
  • Certificates and currency tracked for every instructor, with lapses grounding them automatically.
  • Dispatch authority — release a grounded aircraft under a special flight permit, with the reason permanently logged.

Rates, locations, integrations and billing stay with management.

InstructorYour day, your students, your pay — on a phone+
  • Your schedule or the whole school's, switched with one tap, on the calendar or as a list.
  • Book from a student's name — their availability is right there, no flipping between screens.
  • Grade the lesson and sign it from the ramp. The student signs too, so neither of you can rewrite it later.
  • File a squawk in twenty seconds, with a photo and a prompt for what to try first — and it's on the shop's board before you're inside.
  • Pay you can check — flight and ground hours at your rates, totalled as you fly them.
StudentBook, fly, and see where you stand+
  • Book what you're actually allowed to fly. Aircraft you aren't checked out in, or that aren't approved for your course, simply aren't offered.
  • Study the airplane before you rent it — checklists, the POH, weight and balance, and notes your instructors wrote about that specific tail.
  • Progress you can see — lessons signed, stage checks, hours toward the certificate.
  • A balance with no surprises, itemised by flight, payable from the phone. Parents or sponsors can pay without an account.
The day's schedule across the whole fleet, with each aircraft's airworthiness beside it
Schedule → Day view. The whole fleet across one day, with what is grounded and what is due.

Scheduling and dispatch

The whole fleet across one day.

Every tail on one screen: what is booked, what is airborne, what is running late, and what the shop has taken.

Maintenance sits on the same schedule

A shop block appears alongside the flights and holds the bookings underneath it rather than cancelling them. If the work finishes early, the people affected are told and the flight goes.

A conflict offers the alternative

Booking a tail that is already taken suggests a comparable aircraft — same make, same panel, same rating — that is genuinely free at that hour.

One number, entered once

The Hobbs recorded at check-in becomes the maintenance clock, the student's charge and the instructor's pay. Entered at the aircraft, not typed again at a desk.

The day across the fleet, with a maintenance block held in line with the flights

Who built it

A team of certificated flight instructors who work in flight operations and got tired of watching schools and shops run on whiteboards, spreadsheets, and software that treated the aircraft as an afterthought. When you call about something that isn't working, you're talking to people who fly.

Start your sixty days.

Not a sample account with invented aircraft — your own operation, running free for sixty days.

1Tell us what you runA school, a club, a shop, or one airplane you fly yourself.
2We move you acrossYour aircraft, your people, and your records — brought over from whatever you use now, by us.
3You fly on it for sixty daysFree. Nothing is charged until day sixty, and you can stop before then from inside the software — one click, nothing owed.

No card needed to start. We won't add you to a mailing list, and nobody calls unless you ask.

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