We operate our partnership on a first-come, first-served basis, but anyone
can negotiate with someone else if they need the plane for something
specific. Up to now, we've just used a "send an e-mail to everyone to book
the plane" system. It works, and so far, we have not had anyone hogging the
plane. I suppose if someone is unreasonable, we can deal with it at a
partner's meeting. The advantage of this calendar is that everyone has
immediate access to the plane schedule, and everyone's data is updated at
the same time. Except for Oshkosh, it's rare that anyone books the plane
more than two or three months in advance.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

I don't have to like Bush and Cheney (Or Kerry, for that matter) to love
America

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:57:41 -0400, "Bob Chilcoat"
wrote in Message-Id:
:

Like many airplane partnerships, we've wished we had a simple, web-based
system to schedule the plane, that everyone (four partners) can log onto
and
which will keep a central calendar for us. We had looked at a commercial
"flying club scheduler" that would do everything we wanted, but it cost
money. (OK, not a lot, but we try and keep our $'s for airworthiness
stuff.) Today I found this: https://www.huntcal.com/

They provide a free service to create group-access calendars, which can
easily be used to schedule an airplane. We've put our schedule up on a
calender and defined the "group" as the four partners, each with a
separate
User ID and Password. Each partner can book the plane by logging on and
entering a date and time. We've set it up so only the partners can
access
the calender, and only the one making a reservation can change their
reservation. There are lots of options, but this seems to work for us.
As
long as you don't want a "custom" calendar, there is no charge. We've
only
starting to use it, but I think it will work very well, and the price is
right.

How do you prevent one pilot from scheduling all the holidays?

We used to use a weekly Priority Pilot rotation system.
--

Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts.
-- Larry Dighera,