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Turn Your CFI certificate into a real business.

Website, scheduling, payments, and automated student follow-up for independent flight instructors. Set up for you by a fellow pilot and handed over ready to run. You teach. It runs.
Claim a founding member spot
See the live weather demo

First month free. Month to month. No contract.

Founding Member Spots Open

Turn Your CFI certificate into a real business.

Website, scheduling, payments, and automated student follow-up for independent flight instructors. Set up for you by a fellow pilot and handed over ready to run. You teach. It runs.
Claim a founding member spot
See the live weather demo

First month free. Month to month. No contract.

Built and run by a current working fractional/charter captain, not a marketing agency

ATP Rated

Part 91K/135 Captain

6000+

Hours

4

Type Ratings

Instructor

Pt. 135 Company Instructor

9+

Years in industry

The Problem

They taught you to fly.
Nobody taught you to run a business.

Every checkride made you a better aviator. None of them covered getting students to show up, pay on time, or find you in the first place.

Phone tag and no-shows

You schedule by text, students cancel at the last minute, and the empty block costs you money while the airplane sits.

A Facebook page and a business card aren't a plan

Someone near your airport is searching for a flight instructor tonight. A profile, a card on the FBO board, and word of mouth won't put you in front of them. The school down the ramp gets the call.

Admin eats your evenings

Invoices, reminders, weather calls, review requests, follow-ups. Two hours of desk work for every hour of dual given.

You don't view yourself as a real business. "I'm just a CFI" is costing you students.

Independent instructors deserve the same professional tools as flight schools: a website, scheduling, payments, follow-ups, reviews, and lead capture. Without them, students choose whoever looks easier to find and easier to book.

The instructors who win independently aren’t better pilots. They just have a system.

What’s Included

Your entire back office. Set up for you.
Ready on day one.

One system doing the jobs you never trained for, so your hours go into the airplane instead of your phone.

A website that looks established

A clean professional site with your ratings, rates, and booking front and center. You look like a professional operation from your first student.

Online Scheduling

Students book and reschedule themselves against your real availability. The phone tag stops and your calendar stays honest.

Deposits and payments

Cards on file and deposits to hold a slot. A last-minute cancellation costs the student, not you.

Missed-call text-back

Miss a call at 4,500 feet? The caller gets an instant text back, so a new student never slips away while you're teaching.

Automated reviews

Happy students get asked for a Google review at exactly the right moment. Your reputation compounds while you fly.

Every lead in one place

Every student, inquiry, and conversation in a single hub instead of scattered across texts, email, and sticky notes.

Direct Access to Me

Direct access to me and the working pilots in my network. Career advice, mentorship, and connections most brand-new independent CFIs never get near.
(and you work directly with me for the techy stuff- no support desk)

Private Facebook Community

A private group of similarly minded independent CFIs and working airline pilots, including friends of mine in the industry at every company. Community and connections.

Quizzes, checks, and e-signed documents

Pre-solo written prep, stage checks, and e-signed waivers and agreements, built for Part 61, ready to assign or send.

The part no one else has

Live weather alerts, wired to you and your students.

The system pulls the METAR at your home field on a schedule and
automatically compares it against that student’s saved limits.
When a lesson is at risk, you and your student both get a heads-up before either of you drives to the airport.

Your students can text WX any time and get current conditions back in seconds.
A brand new independent CFI with this looks more buttoned-up than most flight schools.

WX Demo Block Mockup
Try it now:
Type a 4-letter ICAO code below and hit Try It. We'll open a text pre-loaded for you. Send it, and the system replies with a live METAR in seconds.
Try It
Standard message rates apply. Your text is the system talking, not a screenshot.
(or text WX Demo (airport code) to (866) 812-9737)
WX Showcase Panel Mockup
Built and running today
Operational examples of what the system sends. Nothing to fill in here.
WX Student texts your number
Auto reply, seconds later
KMKE 121853Z 27009KT 10SM FEW250 24/11 A3012
Ceiling and visibility good. You're a go.
On-demand weather, any time, straight to their phone
REMINDER Sent automatically before each lesson
2 hours before the scheduled block
Reminder: you have a flight lesson in 2 hours at KFLD.
Current weather:
KFLD 121955Z 31007KT 10SM SCT045 22/09 A3008
Looking good. See you at the airport.
Fewer no-shows, and the student shows up already briefed
WX ALERT Triggered when a new METAR drops
Sent the moment conditions fall below minimums
Heads up: a new METAR at KFLD is now below your set minimums.
KFLD 122015Z 29014G23KT 3SM BR OVC009 19/16 A2996
Ceiling 900 ft, gusting 23 kt. Your 4:00 PM lesson is flagged.
You and the student both get it before anyone drives out
CURRENCY Tracked against each student's records
Sent ahead of the deadline, automatically
Reminder: your solo endorsement expires in 14 days (61.87 is good for 90 days).
Schedule a flight to re-endorse before it lapses.
Endorsements, flight reviews, and medicals, never missed

Getting started

Three steps. Then you go back to flying.

1

We Talk

A short call, pilot to pilot, about how you instruct and where the time is leaking out of your week. We also establish specifics to you, such as your home airport and student weather minimums, etc

2

We Build

Your site, booking, payments, and weather alerts, configured around how you actually work. You never touch the tech.

3

You Fly

You get a business that looks established and runs in the background while your hours go into teaching, making money, and building time towards your next goal.

Founding member offer

Get in first. Keep the rate forever.

I’m bringing on a small first group of instructors and building their systems personally. In exchange for feedback and a testimonial, founders lock the lowest rate this will ever be.

Founding Member

$50 $40/month
  • First month free. Rate locked for life. Month to month, cancel any time.
  • Professional website, built for you (No hosting or set up fees!)
  • Online scheduling with deposits and payments
  • Missed-call text-back and automated review requests
  • Live METAR weather alerts for you and your students
  • Personal setup and handoff by the founder
  • Access to exclusive professional network
Claim a Founding Member Spot

One new student covers about a year of the system. Everything after that is margin.

Want to talk through it first?
Book a call

Who’s behind it

Built by a pilot who's lived both sides.

I’m a working fractional/charter captain and company instructor. I’ve also spent years building websites and marketing systems for small businesses. CFI Business Builder is those two lives combined: the back office every independent instructor deserves, explained in plain language by someone who actually flies. Pilot to pilot, no jargon, no upsell. Designed with one purpose in mind: jump-start your flight instructing, get you more students, which in turn gets you more hours, which in turn gets you to your end goal faster. 

Travis L. Founder, CFI Business Builder | ATP, Instructor Captain

Questions

Straight answers, no fine print.

FAQ Section Mockup
I'm not tech-savvy. Can I actually run this? +
Yes. We build the entire system for you and hand it over running. Your job is to answer your phone, teach, and glance at one dashboard. If you can file a flight plan, you can run this.
I already have a few students. Why do I need this? +
A few students by word of mouth is how every independent CFI starts. The system is what turns that into a pipeline: students book and pay without phone tag, no-shows cost them instead of you, reviews stack up automatically, and new inquiries never slip away while you're flying.
Is there a contract? +
No. Month to month, cancel any time. Founding members keep their locked rate for as long as they stay.
What does it cost? +
The first 10 founding members get everything for $40 per month, which is 20% off the regular $50, with the first month free and the rate locked for life. One new student covers well over a year of the system.
How is this different from just having a website? +
A website is a brochure. This is the whole back office: booking, deposits, payment collection, missed-call text-back, review requests, student weather alerts, and every lead and conversation in one place. The website is just the front door.
What are the live weather alerts? +
The system checks the METAR at your home field on a schedule against your personal minimums. When a lesson is at risk, you and your student both get notified before anyone drives to the airport. Students can also text WX any time for current conditions.
Does this handle my bookkeeping or taxes? +
No. This handles everything that eats your time day to day: booking, getting paid, follow-ups, reviews, and weather. It is not an accounting service. You (or your bookkeeper) still handle taxes and financials on your own schedule. Ask and we can point you to someone who works with small aviation businesses.
Still have questions?
Book a call

Claim your spot

Ten founding spots. Built personally. Locked for life.

Tell me where you instruct and where the pain is. I’ll reply personally within one business day and we’ll set up a short call. If it’s not a fit, I’ll tell you that too.

  • First Month Free, No Contract
  • Set up and supported personally by the founder
  • Founding rate locked for as long as you stay
Become a founding member
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