Who is ready for solo?
Today the answer lives in one CFI's head. We are building progression tracking that puts it on a screen instead: every student plotted against the syllabus, visible to everyone who teaches them.
The quiet cost of not knowing.
The head of training is the database.
One person knows who is close to solo, who needs a check flight, who should not fly crosswind yet. When that person is airborne or on leave, so is the knowledge.
Stalled students drift away.
A student who has not flown in six weeks rarely rings to say they are quitting. They just stop booking. Nobody notices until the next statement run, and by then they have gone.
Handovers start from zero.
A new instructor inherits a student and a folder, then spends the first paid hour of the lesson working out what the last three covered.
The syllabus, as a picture.
Progression tracking will sit on top of our competency-based training records. As instructors sign exercises off, the picture will move forward on its own; nobody will maintain a separate spreadsheet of where everyone is.
- Every student's position against the syllabus, at a glance
- Blockers surfaced: the exercise that keeps getting deferred, the student waiting on a test date
- Students who have gone quiet flagged before they disappear
- Readiness lists: who is ready for solo, who is ready for test
Built on training records
Progression is a view, not another form.
It reads directly from the digital training records we are building. One sign-off updates the student's file, the instructor's picture and the office's readiness list at the same time. Nothing is entered twice.
How training records will workThree people, one answer.
The student
Will see how far they have come and what stands between them and the next milestone. Visible progress keeps people booking; silence loses them.
The instructor
Will open a lesson knowing exactly what the student has covered and with whom, even if they have never flown together before.
The head of training
Will see the whole fleet of students at once: who is on track, who has stalled, and where instructor time should go this month.
How do you track progression today?
A whiteboard, a spreadsheet, a very good memory? Tell us what works and what breaks. We are building this with schools now, and early conversations shape what ships.