Instructor schedules aren't the same every week — a generic booking calendar treats every day the same and leaves the exceptions to a group chat. SimpleFBO gives every instructor a dedicated schedule that handles both the regular pattern and the one-off changes.
Instructors set their regular working hours by day of the week once, and it holds until they change it — no re-entering the same schedule every week.
Blocking a single day off, or opening up extra hours for one date, doesn't require touching the regular schedule. Overrides apply to a specific date without disturbing the recurring pattern underneath it.
Students book against an instructor's actual availability — regular hours plus overrides — so reservations don't land on days an instructor has already blocked off.
Instructors see their own roster of students, not the whole school's, with a detail view per student for tracking progress — separate from the admin-only tools the front office uses.
Instructor availability lives in the same system as aircraft reservations, so a booking checks both the aircraft's calendar and the instructor's at once, instead of two calendars that have to be cross-checked by hand.
See how recurring availability and one-off overrides work together in SimpleFBO's instructor scheduling module.