SchedulePT 4+

The new update didn’t even fix up the problem when choosing time to schedule the time for the airplane or instructor. I still have to go to the website to schedule. Ex: you can’t pick 7am or 1pm.

Not intuitive and cumbersome to use. When you open the app, the home screen is blank. You have to tap on the menu button just to load the daily schedule. They took out the ability to skip forward and back by week, which I used a lot. If you want to skip ahead to a specific date by tapping on the calendar, it gives you a scroll wheel with no days of the week listed. Furthermore, my school schedules by odd hour blocks (i.e.: 11am-1pm, 1pm-3pm etc.) but the app allows only even hour blocks (12pm-2pm, 2pm - 4pm) rendering the app basically useless for scheduling. All I can use it for since the update is viewing my upcoming scheduled sessions and cancelling. What ever instructors and/or aircraft you want to see has to be set up as a “custom” schedule on the desktop. Want to see an instructor you don’t normally work with? You can’t. You have to get on the computer or iPad to change it. This isn’t new, but a crappy feature from the previous versions. I wish my school would just switch to a different system already.

It works ok, but if you want to have your iCal also show the event, you must schedule only through the web portal, not this app, which is a big disappointment, and a rude surprise if you are relying on the calendar sync.

(Of course, to sync with your calendar using the web browser version, you have to select Sync Calendar on My Profile > Pilot)

I do have the app, but only to look at my schedule, since it keeps your login credentials, which is nice. Going through the web portal all the time requires a sign-in every time.