Why magsboth

Independent flight instructors are a small, stubborn corner of aviation. Career CFIs, lifestyle CFIs, the ones who teach because they love it and plan to still be teaching in ten years. They deserve better than a Facebook group, a laminated rate sheet, and a shoebox of receipts.

Ask an instructor why they stay at a school they have outgrown and the answer is rarely airplanes. Going out on your own means becoming a small business overnight: scheduling, endorsements, invoices, records, books, a website. The school handles all of that and keeps a healthy slice of your rate for the trouble. magsboth handles it instead. You keep the students, the schedule, and the name on the door.

Students can finally find you, too: a page with your face on it, your specialties, your real availability, and a Book button that works. Learning to fly is hours in a small metal room with one particular human. People should get to pick the human.

Underneath the calendar sits the part we are most stubborn about: records. Endorsements, signed documents, the paper trail the regulations expect you to keep for years. Yours live with you, independent of whoever employs you this season, and they walk out the door when you do. Quiet feature, whole point.

A lot of general aviation runs on software about as old as the trainer you fly, when it runs on software at all. The people keeping it alive deserve tools from the current decade, and we would rather build them than grumble about it at the airport diner.

Instructors came first because we know them best. Flight schools just got their own pages. The rest of independent aviation is on the flight plan: anyone whose living is a certificate and a reputation, working for themselves.