Flight Schedule Pro, Pilotbase and Taxiway Bravo, compared honestly
Flight Schedule Pro is a flight-school operations platform, now sold by its parent Pilotbase as FlightOps, priced by quote.[2] Since July 2026 the Pilotbase pilot app enforces weight and balance in its Preflight step.[3] That is part of the paid Elite tier at $235 a year per pilot, rolling out at schools that run Pilotbase, with a waitlist for everyone else.[1] We did not find where its envelope data comes from.[1] Taxiway Bravo computes weight and balance for every member at no per-pilot fee, from a handbook held to its published tables, with takeoff and landing distance at dispatch and a refusal that names the limit and the fix. For a large school, Pilotbase does much more, listed below.
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Side by side
- Weight and balance
- PilotbaseEnforced in Preflight, in the Elite tier of the pilot app.[1]
- Taxiway BravoComputed for the booked load from this tail's own weighing and its handbook's envelope. Out of limits, or missing data: refused, with the reason and the fix. A missing weighing is never a pass. Included for every member of the club or school.
- Where the numbers come from
- PilotbaseNot stated on the pages we read.[1]
- Taxiway BravoEach tail's digitized handbook and its own weighing. 3,374 automated checks, including the published tables of 5 handbooks; see which.
- Takeoff and landing
- PilotbaseThe announcement lists performance planning in Preflight; we found no detail on takeoff or landing distance.[3]
- Taxiway BravoWhere the handbook is verified, computed for the departure's weather at dispatch and kept with the booking.
- Price
- PilotbaseFlightOps by quote.[2] Elite $235 a year per pilot[1] ($234.99 on the App Store[4]).
- Taxiway BravoFlat per club: free for one aircraft, $19 a month up to 3 aircraft, $49 a month for any fleet, unlimited members, at founding rates. Month to month.
- Who can get it
- PilotbasePilot app rolling out at schools running Pilotbase; others join a waitlist.[1]
- Taxiway BravoAnyone, today. Sign up free; joining a club or school is always free.
Where Pilotbase is better
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- Native iOS and Android apps.[4] We are web only, installable to a home screen.
- An EFB with offline FAA charts, and a weather briefing locked to within an hour of flight.[1]
- A FRAT with instructor routing, wired into the dispatch gate.[1] We have no risk assessment step.
- Flight data monitoring with 3D replay, and a safety-management workflow.[3]
- Find a Time: an availability search across instructors and aircraft that books several slots at once, and rooms and simulators as bookable resources.[5]
- A logbook built on LogTen, and the training-records depth a Part 141 school needs.[2]
What it costs
FlightOps has no public price, so we cannot compare the school subscription.[2] The pilot side we can. Weight and balance on Pilotbase is in Elite, at $235 a year per pilot.[1] On Taxiway Bravo it is part of the club or school plan: Pro is $49 a month, $588 a year, for unlimited members, at the founding rate.
| Pilots | Elite, per year | Taxiway Bravo Pro, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | $2,350 | $588 |
| 20 | $4,700 | $588 |
| 40 | $9,400 | $588 |
Not like for like: Elite also buys an EFB, flight data monitoring and more, and a Pilotbase school pays its FlightOps quote on top. Our Pro is the whole club or school plan. Card payment fees are separate on both sides.
Moving from Pilotbase
There is no automatic importer from Pilotbase yet. Send us your export and we set up your aircraft and members with you. Each pilot can bring their own logbook in from ForeFlight, LogTen or a spreadsheet, and everything you put in comes back out, on every plan, free included.
Sources
- 1. Pilotbase (for pilots): Pilot app tiers: Essential free, Elite $235 a year. Elite lists Preflight weight and balance (enforced), a FRAT with instructor routing, weather locked to within an hour of flight, and offline FAA charts. Rolling out at flight schools running Pilotbase; everyone else joins a waitlist. No statement of where weight and balance data comes from. pilotbase.com/for-pilots, read .
- 2. Pilotbase (FlightOps): No published price; the page asks you to request a demo. Shows a day schedule and a pilot app, and a logbook built on LogTen. pilotbase.com/flight-ops, read .
- 3. Pilotbase press release (PR Newswire, dated 2026-07-20): Safety Suite announced at AirVenture: Preflight with weather, performance planning, enforced weight and balance, a FRAT and a dispatch gate; an EFB; flight data monitoring with 3D replay; and a safety-management workflow. www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pilotbase-unveils-safety-suite-at-eaa-airventure-oshkosh-expanding-the-pilot-experience-platform-for-a-new-era-of-flight-training-302829295.html, read .
- 4. Pilotbase on the App Store: iOS app first released 2026-07-31; in-app purchase "Pilotbase Elite" at $234.99. An Android app (com.pilotbase.app) was updated 2026-09-21. apps.apple.com/us/app/pilotbase/id6756030391, read .
- 5. Flight Schedule Pro blog: Find a Time searches open slots across instructors and aircraft and books several at once; a day schedule with aircraft, simulators and rooms in rows and a METAR strip above it. www.flightschedulepro.com/blog/aircraft-scheduler-with-weather-visibility, read .
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