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Teaching at a school that's on magsboth

Your school sent you an invite link, or is about to. Here is exactly what accepting it does, what it doesn't do, and why your records were the point all along.

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What the invite actually is

One click links your public listing to the school's page, and nothing more. Your account stays your own: your students, your schedule, your documents, your books. The school's console shows them your public listing and the bookings that touch the school. It never shows your roster, your records, or anything you do on your own time. That boundary is structural, not a setting.

Your listing gains a "Flies out of" line pointing at the school, and you show up as a card on their page, which is free demand: students who found the school pick a person from it, and the person they pick might as well be you.

The affiliation card on your profile: the school you appear with, and the End affiliation button that never needs their permission.

School-billed sessions

Mark a session type as billed by the school and the listing shows "school rates, pay at the school" instead of a price. Students book you, pay the desk, and your bookkeeping never touches the school's money. Sessions you run on your own terms keep your own rates and can take card payment as usual; both kinds live on one calendar.

Bookings that come through the school's page are marked that way, and so is anything school-billed. That marking is your receipt as much as theirs: when you bring in your own students, the record says so, from the first day, permanently.

What students see: the school-billed session shows school rates and pays at the desk; your own sessions keep your prices.

Your records still walk with you

  • United States. Your endorsement records under 61.189 are your personal obligation for three years, and nothing in the regulations lets an employer keep them for you. Keep your own copies here, independent of whoever employs you this season. And if you take students of your own on the side, you are your own TSA flight training provider for that work, with your own citizenship record duties; the documents page has a tool for exactly that record.
  • Canada. The school owns the Pilot Training Records; your recommendation history is what owns your career. Class upgrades and renewals are paid for in documented first solos, flight test recommendations, and pass rates, and nobody owes you a copy of any of it when you leave. Keep your own log of every recommendation as you go, because reconstructing it later is somewhere between painful and impossible.

If you move on

End the affiliation from your profile, one button, no approval needed. Your page, students, and records are unchanged; the school keeps its history; nothing is retroactive on either side. School-billed session types switch to "rates being updated" until you set your own, and requests wait for your confirmation in the meantime, so nothing breaks in public while you sort out pricing.

Canadian instructors, one honest note before the leap: independent instruction has rules of its own, including the FTU requirement for ab-initio training and Class 4 supervision. The independent instructor guide covers them.

Different school?

If yours isn't online, the runs-on-paper guide is the one you want. If you run the place, the owners' guide.