CFI listings

A CFI listing represents an instructor's teaching availability. The one decision that shapes the rest of the listing is how the aircraft is provided.

Mode 1 — Included

Use this when your hourly rate already covers the aircraft (i.e. a wet-lease school operation, or a club CFI flying the club's plane at one bundled price).

• The student picks a single time slot and books — no aircraft selector is shown.
• Slots come straight from your weekly schedule, minus existing confirmed bookings.
• Instructor-only bookings are disabled in this mode — aircraft is assumed to be part of every booking.

Mode 2 — Approved fleet

Link one or more aircraft listings to your CFI listing. A bookable slot only exists when both the CFI and at least one approved aircraft are free — the displayed availability is the intersection of the two schedules.

• The aircraft can be your own listings, or aircraft owned by another Floks user who has set their listing to publicly discoverable.
• If more than one aircraft is free at the chosen time, the student gets a picker on the booking screen.
• If an aircraft you've linked is privately listed and the student isn't on its approved list, the slot still shows but the tail isn't disclosed (see below).

Disclose fleet — the per-cell tail toggle

With Disclose fleet on, each availability cell shows the actual tail number(s) of the aircraft free during that window. With it off, the slot is still bookable, but the student only sees a generic “another aircraft” entry — they learn which aircraft they got after the booking is confirmed.

Schools usually leave this on for transparency. Leave it off when you prefer not to publish your fleet roster publicly, or when assignment depends on operational factors (squawks, fuel, prior block).

Mode 3 — Bring your own (BYO)

The student already has access to an aircraft (owned, club, work) and only needs an instructor. Bookings under BYO are “instructor-only” — the slot is just the CFI's time.

• No aircraft is attached to the booking; logistics happen off platform.
• Use this if you primarily fly with already-rated pilots doing recurrent training, IPCs, BFRs, or ratings on their own aircraft.

Approved-emails (auto-confirm)

Any of the modes above can have an Approved emails list — an allowlist of student email addresses whose bookings skip the manual-approval step and go straight to confirmed. New students still hit the standard pending → approve flow; trusted recurring students don't.