Independent Instructing.
Without the mess.
climbrate is the independent flight instructor's app — every student tracked task by task, lesson by lesson, from the first hour to the checkride.
climbrate was built by instructors who taught on their own and had nothing built for it. Flight schools had software that followed each student from first lesson to certificate. The rest of us had a logbook, a notes app, and memory.
climbrate is that software at the scale of one instructor: a syllabus for each student, grading as you fly, the logbook, the endorsements, and the bookkeeping that comes with teaching for yourself. Students have a clear path forward, a library of studying resources, and more tools than ever to ensure their success. See what it can do.
Powerful tools, no longer just for the big schools.
Industry leading tools to help you run your own business.
Personal Email & Website
Market yourself more effectively with your own climbrate email address and shareable website - new and current students can request bookings directly with you online.
Automatic Lesson SequencingCheckride Readiness ExportPlateau DetectionEndorsement SnapshotsBilling, Payments & TaxesOne screen for the whole day
Schedule, lesson plans, endorsements, logbook and school resources sit on the main screen — no switching systems mid-lesson.
- OverviewThe day's schedule. Easily manage the day's flights.
- Lesson plansA quick reference tab to view the lesson you're about to teach.
- EndorsementsQuickly write and send endorsements, permanently saved.
- ComplianceCurrency and eligibility, checked as records land.
- LogbookQuickly view flight time accrued instructing, one tap export.
Never forget when you started the lesson
- Clock in
- The “Oops, I forgot this student was coming, just get the clock started” button
- Start Next
- One tap to start your next scheduled lesson
- Custom Flight
- Start the clock with anyone for any rating, even if they aren't on your student roster.
Live Lessons +
Live Grading
We all know lessons don't always go according to plan. If winds are too strong to work on those S-turns, or you didn't make it to the chandelles, that's okay. You can add, edit or remove skills worked on within your lesson as you work on them.
You can quickly move between the live lesson and live grading page to grade skills as you fly them. No more writing down notes only to forget to grade them later.
Try our DemoFull Schedule Management
Scheduling doesn't have to be done in your notes. You can have Part 141 level scheduling capability to completely manage your professional life: create and manage bookings, lessons within each booking, block off days, create a lunch time for yourself and add your scheduled route.
See our Demo
Show off the professional that you are
Facebook groups and networking at the airport isn't setting yourself apart. Make yourself memorable and immediately accessible by marketing yourself with your own personal website to further pursue leads for new students. The site is fully customizable and easy to share to ensure your conversation with that potential student is memorable. You can enable booking requests, post contact and social info, or describe what makes you unique.
Try our DemoYour students always know where they stand
Flight training is notorious for losing students from lack of understanding where they are in the process. Training can seem endless, but with a clear path forward, your students will understand exactly where they are now, what's next, how to study, and have tangible knowledge of their progress in the program. Students that know the way forward are students that keep coming back.
Their own record
Every graded task, endorsement, and logged hour lands in the student's own app — the same record you see, from their side.
One clear next step
After every lesson, students see the single thing to prepare for the next one — not a wall of grades to decode.
Study Guide
Videos and resources you curate, matched to the tasks coming up — so ground study points the same direction the training does.