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For flight schools, clubs & operators

Your school, bookable online
in 15 minutes.

Floks turns your fleet, your CFIs, and the Google Calendar you already run on into a live booking page students can find and book — without a phone call, without a setup project, and without changing how you operate.

Free for your first 50 aircraft + 30 CFI bookings per listing, per month · No credit card · The first 25 schools to sign up get Pro free for life.

What the 15 minutes actually looks like

Not a sales claim. This is the literal sign-up path — every step is self-serve, and you can stop after any of them and still take bookings.

  1. 0–2 min

    Create an operator account

    Pick the operator name students see and add your home airport. One Google sign-in, no email loops.

  2. 2–5 min

    Add your aircraft

    Tail number, type, hourly wet/dry rate. Mark renters as approved-only if you don't want walk-ups booking the right-seat without checkout.

  3. 5–10 min

    List your CFIs and link Google Calendar

    Each instructor connects their own Google Calendar. Floks reads their busy blocks and writes confirmed bookings back as events.

  4. 10–15 min

    Share your listing URL

    Drop your flyfloks.com/operators/your-school link on your website, in your reply emails, and on your business card. Bookings land in the calendars you already check.

Built for how a flight school actually runs

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CFI × aircraft availability, joined

Floks reads every instructor's and every aircraft's Google Calendar — lessons, maintenance, dentist appointments, detailing — and only offers slots where both are free. No double-bookings, no "oh wait, the plane is down."

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Indexed city pages students actually find

Every region gets its own page (e.g. flyfloks.com/cfis/palo-alto) that ranks for "CFI near [city]" searches. Your listing appears the moment a student starts looking.

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One-click approve / decline from email

Booking requests arrive in your instructors' inboxes with green Approve and red Decline buttons inline. No app to open, no login. The confirmation writes back to every calendar automatically.

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Approved-only renters

Mark an aircraft as approved-only and the booking button is hidden for students you haven't checked out. Walk-ups can still book CFI lessons — that's how every checkout flow starts.

01 · The booking engine

Your CFI's calendar × your aircraft's calendar — joined.

This is what makes Floks different from a calendar embed. Each instructor and each aircraft has its own Google Calendar — full of lessons, maintenance, dentist appointments, lunch with Sara. Floks reads both, intersects them, and only offers slots where everything lines up. The student never sees a slot you can't actually fly.

Marcus — Google Calendarcalendar.google.com
Mon
Tue
Wed
9a
10a
Lesson — A. Smith
11a
Lunch w/ Sara
12p
Dentist
1p
2p
3p
Lesson — J. Patel
4p
N4521C — Google Calendarcalendar.google.com
Mon
Tue
Wed
9a
Rental — Patel
100-hr maintenance
10a
11a
12p
1p
2p
Detailing
3p
4p
Floks intersects both ↓
flyfloks.com/book/marcus-chen + n4521c
Marcus Chen · CFI · CFII
+ N4521C · Cessna 172S
$260/hr
wet rental + CFI
Available next week — pick a slot
Mon
Tue
Wed
9a
A/C
A/C
Book
10a
CFI
A/C
Book
11a
CFI
A/C
CFI
12p
Book
CFI
1p
Book
Book
Book
2p
Book
Book
A/C
3p
Book
Book
CFI
4p
Book
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BookableCFIinstructor busyA/Caircraft busy

02 · Discoverability

Students find you by Googling, not by knowing your name.

Every region gets its own Floks city page that's indexed and ranks for searches like "CFI near Palo Alto." Your listing appears on the map, with live availability attached, the moment a curious student starts looking. You don't have to run ads to be in front of them.

flyfloks.com/cfis/palo-alto

CFIs near Palo Alto, CA

12 results
Open in Floks →
Ggoogle.com·flight instructor palo alto
CFIs near Palo Alto, CA — Floks
12 certified flight instructors near KPAO. Live availability, hourly rates from $85…
Every city page is indexed and ranks for "CFI near [city]" searches.© OpenStreetMap · CARTO

03 · Approvals from email

Approve or decline in one click, from your inbox.

Booking requests land in your instructors' email with green Approve and red Decline buttons inline. No app to open, no login, no copy-pasting a confirmation. When they approve, every involved calendar updates automatically — student, CFI, aircraft, your school's master calendar.

mail.google.com
1 of 247
New booking request — Discovery flight with A. Smith
F
Floks<notify@flyfloks.com>2 min ago

Hi Marcus — Alex Smith wants to book a discovery flight on Sat, Jun 6 · 2:00 PM (1.5 hr) in N4521C. Both you and the aircraft are free during that window.

Student
Alex Smith
When
Sat 2:00 PM
Aircraft
N4521C
✓ Approve booking✗ Decline
One click. No login required. Confirmation lands in everyone's calendar.

Pricing for schools

Free until you outgrow it. Then $50/month for everything.

50
aircraft bookings / listing / month
30
CFI bookings / listing / month
$50
per month covers the whole school

🎉 First 25 schools to sign up get Pro free for life.

Applied automatically at signup. No card, no email loop, no fine print — your founding-member status holds even after billing goes live.

Questions schools ask us

We already have a scheduling tool. Why add another?
You don't have to replace it. Floks is the public-facing layer — the page students land on when they search for a CFI in your area. Your existing scheduler keeps doing what it does; Floks just makes sure incoming bookings land in your Google Calendar so a dispatcher can mirror them into your system of record (or skip that step entirely once you trust the flow).
Does it replace our website?
No, it complements it. Most schools either link their existing site to their Floks listing as the "book now" page, or embed the listing directly (embed support is on the roadmap). Your school's brand and copy stays where it is — Floks just handles the availability + booking surface.
What about insurance verification and renter checkouts?
Mark an aircraft as approved-only and the booking button is hidden for any student you haven't manually approved. The student can still request a checkout flight with a CFI — that's how every approved-only flow starts. Your existing insurance and checkout process doesn't change.
How long until students can actually find us?
Your listing is publicly searchable the moment you publish it. Indexing by Google for city pages (e.g. flyfloks.com/cfis/your-city) takes a few days, but anyone with your direct listing URL or coming through a city search inside Floks sees you immediately.
What if my CFIs use their own calendars, not the school's?
That's the default. Each CFI links their own Google Calendar — Floks reads their existing personal busy blocks (so we never offer a slot they're already committed to) and writes confirmed lessons back as events. The school dashboard rolls them up.

Ready to be one of the first 25?

Sign up takes 15 minutes. If you'd rather walk through it with us first, we'll book a 20-minute screenshare at a time that works for you — just reply to the email below.