FTOM

Flight Training Operations Management

One system for the whole flying training organisation — student admissions and records, courses, batches, instructors, fleet, auto-rostering and every flight logged and graded. It puts the spreadsheets, the WhatsApp groups and the paper files in one place, so you can see where every student stands and what every aircraft is doing today.

Flight training operations
Flight Training Operations ManagementStudents, courses, instructors, fleet, auto-rostering, live tracking and DGCA-ready records.

Student Management

Every student, from enquiry to endorsement, in one record.

Students maintain their own details, so records stay current without your office chasing them. Progress is computed from what they have actually flown rather than tallied by hand at month end.

Admissions without the paperwork chase

Invite a student by email and they onboard themselves — profile, licence, medical, exams and documents. You review each document and approve the admission from one queue.

Batches that mirror how you train

Cohorts start a course together with their instructors attached. Move or transfer a student between batches, and track classroom modules separately from flying.

Progress you can see at a glance

A progress bar and an on-time or delayed flag against every student, hours flown versus plan, and the pending-endorsement backlog per batch — so you catch the student drifting in week three, not at the end of the course.

What It Covers

The rest of the FTO, in the same place.

Courses and syllabus

Standard flying and ground courses built from DGCA-recommended hours and lesson structure. Start a custom course from one as a template, then change the lessons, sorties, durations and grading your FTO does differently.

Instructors

Qualifications, authorised courses and operation types, examiner authority and daily duty caps — held on the record once, and applied everywhere after.

Fleet

Capability approvals per tail, planning priority and maintenance windows. A grounded or AOG aircraft blocks itself on the calendar, so nobody schedules over it.

Roster calendar

A per-aircraft day, week, month and list view. Add a sortie by hand, edit, publish, complete or cancel one with a reason, and filter down to a status or a single tail.

Multiple bases

Run more than one training base from the same account, each with its own students, instructors and aircraft — and report across all of them or drill into one.

Document library

Your manuals and reference documents filed by category, uploaded by administrators and readable by everyone who needs them.

Auto-Rostering

The roster builds itself — and explains itself.

Because the syllabus, qualifications, duty caps and fleet capabilities are already on record, FTOM can schedule for you. Give it a date range; it works out who flies what, with whom, in which aircraft and at what time.

It matches on the constraints that matter

Each student's next due lesson, an instructor authorised for that course and operation type, and an aircraft with the matching capability approval — Dual, Solo, XC, Night, IFR, ME — that is not grounded. Duty caps and utilisation limits are hard limits, and each slot is sized from its own lesson's duration.

Every unrostered student comes with a reason

No instructor authorised, capability not approved, medical expired, no free slot in the window — grouped by cause with the fix. You spend your morning fixing one bottleneck instead of hunting for it.

You stay in control

A run produces a draft. Nothing reaches a student or instructor until you publish it, and published sorties are never overwritten by a later run. Students running behind are moved up the order automatically; a Priority Boost is there for when you want to prioritise someone by hand.

Live ADS-B Tracking

Your fleet on a live map — not the whole sky.

Tracking is scoped to the tails on your own fleet register, so the map carries your training aircraft and nothing else.

Position and telemetry

Each airborne tail reports altitude, ground speed, heading, vertical speed and squawk against its callsign, registration and type — with In Flight, Taxiing, Approaching and On Ground called out as it happens.

The fleet at a glance

Live counts of what is airborne, on the ground and in maintenance, plus each tail's current location and hours flown today — read next to the roster that put it there.

Over your training areas

Positions plot across the circuits and training areas your students actually fly, so the duty officer can see a sortie is airborne without calling the tower.

Three Apps

Your students and instructors get their own — on mobile and web.

Operations app

The control centre you run the FTO from: admissions, courses, batches, fleet, rostering, reports and administration, in a desktop browser.

Student app

Roster with accept and reject, leave and rest windows that block scheduling, course progress, grade history, and the auth, journey and pilot logbooks — each auto-filled from the completed sortie.

Instructor app

Assigned sorties to accept, reject and mark complete, grading by whatever method the lesson uses, lesson endorsements, and the authorisations that unlock a student's next stage.

Oversight and Compliance

The audit record builds itself as you operate.

What a DGCA inspector asks for is captured as part of the day, not reconstructed the week before an audit.

The registers

The CAR Appendix II breath-test register against each sortie, and the flight-authorization log students submit and instructors endorse — Draft, Submitted, Endorsed or Rejected.

Nothing expires quietly

Crew flight and duty-time monitoring with a watch-list and violation flags, plus medical-certificate expiry and endorsement backlog surfaced before either becomes a grounding.

Reports that name the bottleneck

Enrollment, progress, operations, fleet, instructor and compliance dashboards — and a roster-health report that trends rostered against unrostered and points at the cause. Filter by date, base, batch or training type, and save any of them to PDF.

How It Runs

Set it up once, then it is a daily loop.

1

Set up

Your staff accounts, instructors and their qualifications, the fleet and its capabilities, and your courses.

2

Admit

Invite students, approve their documents and medicals, and place them in a flying batch with a start date.

3

Roster

Auto-roster the week, read the exceptions, fix the bottleneck it names, and publish.

4

Fly and track

Sorties are accepted, flown, logged and graded in the apps, tracked live on the map, and credited back into the next run.