Booking system for gliders

AndersP wrote:
Hej,

My club is looking for a free, or very low cost, booking system. Does
anyone have any suggestions ? Up until now we used a free service that
suddenly without warning turned non-free :-(. Puts us in a bit of an
awkward position.

We are about 200 users with roughly 15 aircrafts, but the number of
bookings per year is limited to a few tenths. Therefore we feel it is
not worth the big bucks the former free-of-charge system now wants to
charge.

We want something with an easy web-interface so that everyone can use
it, including old farts ;-).

Yet it should be advanced enough to allow the sort of things you need to
do in a glider club w.r.t. a/c booking. Like blocking a/c for service,
allowing reservation of instructors, marking a/c as grounded due to
problems etc.

Suggestions ?

We use Google Calendars. Create an Google account then distribute the
username and pwd to everyone to share (Google doesn't seem to mind
lots of people being signed in at one from different places!)

Then people can create bookings as "events", e.g our MG is offline at
the moment so that's one event spanning a couple of weeks, a few
people are booked in for flying next week so have added their name as
an "event" on days next week etc. Simple but works!


Dan