Getting Started with Aloft360

Welcome to Aloft360

Aloft360 is an aircraft management platform built for individual owners, flight schools, flying clubs, and professional operators. It gives you one place to track flight hours, manage inspections, log maintenance, schedule reservations, manage your team, and handle billing.

What You Can Do

• Track flight hours — log every flight with Hobbs/tach start and end times. Aircraft totals update automatically.
• Manage inspections — track Annual, 100-Hour, ADs, ELT battery, transponder, and pitot-static checks with automatic due-date calculation.
• Log maintenance — record squawks, maintenance entries, and costs against any aircraft.
• Schedule reservations — a shared booking calendar lets members reserve aircraft with conflict detection.
• Manage your team — invite members, assign roles (including additional roles), and control access per role.
• Track member currency — BFR, IPC, recency checks, and custom currency requirements per member.
• Student Training Module — track student time totals by category, endorsements, and FAA Part 61 checkride progress for PPL, IR, CPL, CFI, and CFII (free, toggleable in Settings).
• TSA / AFSP Tracking — record citizenship status and AFSP approval data for non-citizen students as required under 49 CFR Part 1552 (always available).
• Professional operations — dispatch trips, assign contract or employed pilots, track operating costs, and log check-in/check-out (requires Professional add-on, $49/mo).
• Automated billing — auto-generate invoices from flight time, manage member account balances, and collect payments via Stripe (requires Billing & Payments add-on, $29/mo).

First Steps

1. Add your organization — this was created during signup. You can rename it in Settings.
2. Add your first aircraft — go to Aircraft → Add Aircraft. You'll need the tail number, make, model, and current Hobbs or tach time.
3. Invite your team — go to Settings → Members → Invite. See Inviting Team Members.
4. Set up inspections — open any aircraft and go to the Inspections tab. Enter the last completed date and current hours for each inspection type.
5. Log your first flight — open any aircraft and go to the Flights tab.

Navigation

The sidebar gives you quick access to every section:

• Dashboard — fleet overview with airworthiness status at a glance
• Aircraft — individual aircraft detail: flights, inspections, squawks, and notes
• Schedule — reservation calendar (shared across your team)
• Flights — combined flight log across all aircraft
• Members — team management, currency tracking, and documents (Admin/Owner/CFI only)
• Students — student roster with training progress and TSA compliance overview (visible when Training Module is enabled)
• Settings — organization preferences, feature toggles, and billing
• Billing — subscription management, add-ons, and payment settings (Owner only)
• Professional — trip dispatch, pilots, and passengers (visible when Professional add-on is active)

Add-Ons

Aloft360's base plans cover fleet management and scheduling. Two add-ons extend the platform:

Both require an active base plan. A 30-day free trial is shared across all modules — whichever you subscribe to first uses it.

Getting Help

Browse all articles in the Help center, or email us at help@aloft360.com for anything not covered here.