AviPrep and Taxiway Bravo, compared honestly
AviPrep is a flight-training marketplace: students book independent instructors and aircraft listed by owners, clubs and schools, and pay after each lesson.[1] Owners list for free with no monthly fee; renters pay a per-booking fee whose amount we did not find published.[2] Its owner tools include one calendar per aircraft, Hobbs logged with the ADS-B track attached, automatic charging on actual Hobbs, squawks, inspections and monthly statements.[2] It leaves airworthiness, insurance and checkouts to the owner and the pilot in command, and we found no weight and balance or handbook features.[2] If you want marketplace renters for your airplane, AviPrep is built for that. If you run your own club's schedule and want each tail's weight and balance on every booking, that is us.
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Side by side
- What it is for
- AviPrepRenting your aircraft to the marketplace's students and instructors.[1]
- Taxiway BravoRunning your own airplane, partnership or club: your members, your schedule, your rates.
- Weight and balance
- AviPrepNot mentioned; airworthiness and checkouts stay with the owner and pilot in command.[2]
- Taxiway BravoComputed for the booked load from this tail's own weighing and its handbook's envelope. Out of limits, or missing data: refused, with the reason and the fix. A missing weighing is never a pass.
- Grounding
- AviPrepSquawks and inspections by date or hours.[2]
- Taxiway BravoA grounding squawk or an overdue inspection blocks check-out. A grounded airplane cannot be checked out.
- Price
- AviPrepFree to list, no monthly fee; a per-booking fee paid by the renter, amount not shown.[2]
- Taxiway BravoFree for one aircraft with unlimited partners. A member paying by card pays a service fee on its own line; the rate is on our pricing page.
Where AviPrep is better
If one of these decides it for you, choose them. We would rather you knew now.
What it costs
For one aircraft, both cost the owner nothing a month.[2] The difference is who pays per flight and how much: AviPrep's renter fee is not published, so we cannot do the arithmetic.[2] Ours is on the pricing page, worked through on a $150 rental hour. A club past one aircraft pays $19 a month up to 3 aircraft or $49 for any fleet, at founding rates.
Moving from AviPrep
There is no automatic importer from AviPrep yet. Send us your export and we set up your aircraft and members with you. Each pilot can bring their own logbook in from ForeFlight, LogTen or a spreadsheet, and everything you put in comes back out, on every plan, free included.
Sources
- 1. AviPrep: A marketplace connecting student pilots with independent instructors and with aircraft from owners, clubs and schools. Students pay after each lesson. Apps on iPhone and Android. www.aviprep.net/, read .
- 2. AviPrep (list your aircraft): Free to list, no monthly fees; a per-booking fee paid by the renter (amount not shown). One calendar per aircraft, Hobbs in and out with the ADS-B track attached, automatic charging on actual Hobbs, inspections and squawks, monthly statements. Airworthiness, insurance, checkouts and compliance remain the owner's and pilot in command's responsibility. No mention of weight and balance or a handbook. www.aviprep.net/list-your-aircraft, read .
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