Guide
How magsboth works
Two walkthroughs, because the two sides of a lesson want different things. The instructor is setting up a small business; the student is trying to book a flight and sign what they're asked to sign.
For instructors
Set up your practice
Profile, availability, services, bookings, waivers, books, invoices and receipts. About twenty minutes end to end.
Start the walkthrough →For students
Book, sign, keep receipts
Find an instructor, book a slot, sign the waiver, and keep a copy of everything you paid for. Five minutes.
Start the walkthrough →Going independent · 🇺🇸
The independent CFI in the United States
Part 61 freedom, the TSA's standing to-do list, the records that must survive, and where the work is in 2026.
Read it →Owner maintenance · 🇺🇸
Working on your own aircraft
What a pilot-owner may legally do, where the list stops, and the logbook entry almost everybody skips.
Read it →Owner maintenance · 🇨🇦
The Owner-maintenance classification
What it does to the aeroplane, why it cannot cross the border, and the three things the regulation leaves undefined.
Read it →Going independent · 🇨🇦
The independent instructor in Canada
What CAR 406.03 actually walls off (less than the hangar talk says), the Transport Canada notice, and the freelance market map.
Read it →Cross-border
Flying and teaching across the US-Canada border
TSA vetting, study permits, work authorization, and what each country's certificates are worth in the other. Three guides: Canadian citizens, American citizens, dual citizens.
Pick your guide →Cross-border · 🇨🇦 → 🇺🇸
Turning a Canadian licence into an FAA certificate
The piggyback and the full conversion, and how every rating maps: classes, instrument, night, and the ones that evaporate. No checkride either way.
Cross-border · 🇺🇸 → 🇨🇦
Turning an FAA certificate into Canadian privileges
The northbound edition: the one-year visitor certificate, the mandatory Canadian medical, the night trap in reverse, and the radio exam nobody warns you about.
At a school
Owners & managers
Running your school's page
Fleet, instructors, and bookings your desk confirms with one click.
Instructors
Your school is on magsboth
What the invite link does, what the school sees, and what stays yours.
Instructors
Your school runs on paper
Use everything solo, hand the desk one calendar link, keep your records.
The short version
magsboth is one account for an independent CFI's whole operation: a public page students can find, a calendar they can book, e-signed waivers and endorsements, a private cabinet for the records you're required to retain, cash-basis books that survive an audit, and invoices and receipts for money that never touched a card reader.
Nothing in it assumes you use our payments. If a student hands you cash, you can still issue a numbered receipt and have the income land in your books, dated correctly.
Available in the US and Canada, except Quebec for now. Free to start; see pricing.
Stuck on something?
Write to hello@magsboth.com with what you were doing and where it went sideways. It's early. You're writing to the people who built it, not filing a ticket.