Leadovation Aero Courses

A flight school plans its ground school twice a year, and then spends the next six months answering the same three questions: when is the next Air Law session, is there a seat left, and who is actually coming on Saturday.

Aero Courses answers all three by itself. You build the semester once, publish it on your own site, and students book their own seats. No spreadsheet, no reply-all, no third-party booking service holding your roster.

It is not a general-purpose events plugin bent into shape for aviation. Modules, sessions, capacity, booking windows and cancellation deadlines are modelled on how a school actually runs a syllabus: PPL, CPL, ATPL, IR.

Free, and genuinely usable

The free version is not a demo. A school can run a full semester on it, with no cap on sessions, students or bookings.

• Build the semester. Course modules with their code, colour, duration and default schedule. A planner that lays the term out, flags a clash before you publish, and keeps everything as a draft until you say so. Mark the days the school is closed and it plans around them.
• Publish it where your students already are. Two front-end views: a dense operations board showing the whole semester at a glance, and a booking agenda grouped by day. Each comes three ways, shortcode, Gutenberg block or Avada element, and all three render exactly the same thing.
• Take the bookings. Seats are enforced, the booking window opens and closes when you say, and students cancel themselves up to a deadline you set. Confirmation e-mail to them, notification to you.
• Keep the register. An attendee screen that opens on a period (the next 30 days, the quarter, a past year) showing every session with who is on it. Add or remove someone by hand, export a session to CSV.
• Give people the right hat. Four roles (Student, Pilot, FI, FE) assigned one at a time or in bulk. A role is added to the WordPress roles an account already has, never substituted.
• Speak your students’ language. English and French, the whole interface, translated by hand in the words a flight school actually uses. The content travels too: course titles, descriptions, locations and e-mail templates are written language by language, and each student is written to in their own. No multilingual plugin required; if Polylang or WPML is running, Aero Courses follows their lead.
• Move in from Events Manager, free. The import screen reads the events already on your site, works out one module per title prefix, and tells you what it will do before writing anything. Nothing is touched in Events Manager, the import can be replayed without doubling, and no student account is ever invented.

Upgrade to Aero Courses Premium

Aero Courses Premium is a separate plugin, installed on top of this one, for the school that has outgrown doing it by hand. Nothing described below is present in this plugin: what you install here is complete on its own and runs without a licence.

• A whole semester in one gesture. Pick a course, a rhythm and an end date; the plugin proposes the dates for you to review before a single one is written, skipping closures and flagging clashes.
• A waiting list that works while you sleep. A full session keeps taking names, and the moment a seat frees up the queue is told. First to book gets it.
• Reminders that go out on their own. The student seven days and two days before, the instructor the day before with the list of who is coming. Never twice for the same session.
• Attendance, and a training record. Mark present, absent or excused for a whole session in one click; each student gets a page showing module by module what they have attended, what they are booked on and what is still open.
• An instructor on every session. Chosen among the accounts allowed to sign the sheet. The planner refuses to publish a semester that gives one instructor two sessions at once.
• The paperwork, in the shape it is asked for. Bookings with their status, an attendance register naming who signed it and when, or one row per session with seats offered, taken, cancelled and people turned away. Over any period, not one session at a time.
• Add to calendar. A student picks Google, Outlook or Apple and the session lands in their own calendar. The confirmation e-mail carries the .ics file for whoever does not click.
• A theme editor. Start from one of four presets, then set each of the nineteen colours and lengths it is made of, with the board rendering live as you change them.

Nothing you have already is ever switched off after the fact. See what Premium adds and what it costs.

Part of the Aero range

Aero Courses is one of the WPTechnology plugins written for flight schools and flying clubs. They share the same look and the same idea: one job each, done properly, and they talk to each other when installed side by side.

• Aero Weather (METAR/TAF): the field’s METAR and TAF on your site, raw or decoded, with the flight category at a glance.
• Aero Users: the school’s roster (students, pilots, instructors, examiners) shared by the whole range. In review.

Translations

The plugin ships in English and French. To translate it into your language, or to improve the French, join the project on translate.wordpress.org. Every string is prepared for it and the .pot file is bundled.

What this plugin does not claim

Attending a course is not passing a module. Authorities such as the DGAC certify on an examination, which this plugin knows nothing about. It records attendance (who was marked present, by whom, and when) and never claims more. A module counts as attended only where someone signed the sheet: a booking on a past session nobody signed off is not attendance, and that is precisely what an auditor comes to check.

Third-party services

The plugin itself contacts nothing to do its work: your schedule, your students and your bookings never leave your site.

It bundles the Freemius SDK, which handles licensing for the Premium version and, if you agree to it on activation, anonymous usage statistics. You are asked, you may decline, and declining changes nothing about how the plugin works. Freemius is contacted only to check a licence or, with your consent, to send those statistics. Service: Freemius · terms · privacy.