A Saturday at a flying club
Five aircraft, a hundred-odd members, four freelance instructors, and no operations team. Here is how the day runs on FlyerOS — self-service from open to dusk.
Screens referenced are the demo environment (fictional Northstar data).
08:45 — the duty instructor opens up
Rachel is duty instructor today, which at a club means she is the operations function between her own flights. She opens the board on her phone in the clubhouse: five aircraft, their tech-log state, today's bookings against each, and one amber flag — G-FLYC's 50-hour is due in 3 hours' flying. She walks the line, confirms fuel, and the day is set in under a minute.
09:30 — a member hires solo
A member has booked G-FLYA for a local flight. He didn't phone anyone — he booked himself two evenings ago against the aircraft's availability. As he checks in, the system quietly confirms his checkout on type, his recency, his medical and his flying-account balance. All green, so he self-certifies dispatch and goes. Had his medical lapsed, the booking would have told him — and Rachel — days ago, not at the aircraft.
10:15 — a trial lesson walks in
Good weather brings a walk-in for a trial lesson. Rachel books it as a trial-lesson activity — a customer, no syllabus, no student record required — assigns herself and a spare aircraft, and it's away. The voucher is recorded against the flight for later.
11:40 — a snag, and three bookings move
An aircraft comes back with a nosewheel shimmy. Rachel reports the defect from her phone at the aircraft — a photo, “grounding”, a line of description. Instantly the aircraft is grounded, it drops out of dispatch, and the three bookings that depended on it this afternoon appear in the disruption panel with the serviceable aircraft that could take them. Two get swapped, one member is offered a different slot. Nobody found out at the aircraft.
Dusk — the day closes empty
Each flight was closed next to the aircraft: times, counters, landings, fuel, an outcome. The flying accounts debited on close. When Rachel locks up, the exception queue is empty — no unclosed flights, no missing readings, nothing to reconstruct on Monday.