The questions clubs, partnerships and owners ask before they choose software — answered in short, with the full comparison, the sources and the worked numbers one click away.
What does flying club software cost for a small club with two aircraft?
Most flying club platforms charge per aircraft: a year for two aircraft costs $228 on FlightCircle, $170 on Holdshort and €696 on Aviatize (read on the vendors’ own websites on 16 October 2026). Pilot-Next charges per club instead: €216 a year for up to 10 pilots and €540 a year for 30, and booking, flight logging, invoicing and pilot balances come with every plan.
Flying club management software compared: twelve platforms →
What’s a good aircraft scheduling app for a flying club?
One that stops double bookings, puts each booking in the pilot’s own calendar and, for a club that trains, books instructors and checks medicals. Of the 26 other scheduling platforms we checked on 29 September 2026, eleven block bookings on a grounded aircraft (Flight Schedule Pro, Holdshort, Aviatize, Hobbstack, Flightnet, FlightBoard, Avibase, Squawkd, Flight Suite HQ, Resyrv and AerScheduler) and twelve check a pilot’s qualifications before the booking. Pilot-Next is built for clubs where members pay for the hours they fly: it blocks double bookings, enforces the booking limits a club sets — length, open bookings, days ahead, a minimum balance — and turns the logged hours into an invoice on the pilot’s account, but it does not schedule instructors or check medicals. An administrator can ground an aircraft for a period, which refuses member bookings in it; an overdue inspection does not do that by itself.
Aircraft scheduling software: the full comparison →
How should a flying club bill its pilots for flight time?
A club decides five things: Hobbs or Tacho time, a wet or dry rate, which charges are fixed, who pays what, and whether members prepay or are invoiced afterwards. In Pilot-Next each settled flight is priced at the aircraft’s rate — in the illustrative example 1.4 hours at €150, a €5 booking fee and 2 landings make €239 — and the invoice is booked to the pilot’s account balance. Membership dues are billed per month, quarter or year to the same balance.
Flying club billing: each choice and a worked example →
Which flying club software tracks aircraft hours and maintenance due?
A club aircraft is grounded by whichever limit it reaches first: the hours since the last 100-hour inspection or the date of the next annual. Pilot-Next keeps both limits for every aircraft, counting the hours on the Tacho meter, marks an item Due Soon in the last 10% of its interval and Overdue once it is passed, and forecasts from the club’s own bookings in which week the hours will run out.
Aircraft maintenance tracking: intervals and forecast →
Which flying club software works for European clubs?
Much of the best-known flying club software — FlightCircle, Coflyt, Holdshort — is built for the United States and priced in dollars. Platforms built in Europe include Pilot-Next, Aviatize, OpenFlyers, Vereinsflieger, AeroSuite, 4fly, Flylogs, Repulion, Flightnet, FLYLOG.io, Avibase, Aircraft Info Desk, ameavia, Aviation Helper, Aerogest and AeroPlus. Pilot-Next is built in the Netherlands, prices in euros per club, puts VAT on every invoice line and can e-mail every flight invoice to the club’s accounting inbox as a PDF plus a UBL e-invoice; a connection to Exact Online (Netherlands) is available on request.
Flying club software for European clubs →
How do co-owners of a shared aircraft split the costs?
Usually each owner pays an equal share of the fixed costs plus a rate for every hour they fly. With four owners flying 40 hours a year each, a Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP costs each owner about €8,498 ($7,107 at a US price level) a year, against €15,630 ($16,067 at a US price level) for a single owner — indicative figures, before depreciation and insurance. In Pilot-Next every owner books the aircraft, logs Hobbs or Tacho time after the flight, and the flight is priced and booked to that owner’s own account.
Aircraft partnership software: the split for one to six owners →
What hourly rate covers the cost of renting out an aircraft?
The rate has to cover every hourly cost of the flight plus the year’s fixed costs spread over the hours flown: a Cessna 172S Skyhawk SP flying 100 hours a year needs about €248 ($222 at a US price level) per hour with fuel included, and €203 ($165 at a US price level) at 200 hours — insurance and depreciation on top. Pilot-Next handles the renting itself: a rate per hour or per booking, and every flight the renter settles becomes an invoice on the renter’s account.
Aircraft rental software: renter accounts, rates and eight rental platforms →
