Joining your flight school

If your flight school invited you to Checkride, you'll have received an email with a tokenized join link. Open it, sign up (or sign in if you already have an account), and you'll be added to the school's roster as a student.

If you're under 18, your parent or guardian also receives a consent email — see Parental consent for minors.

Build your pilot profile

Settings → Profile is where you set the basics that drive the rest of the app:

• Target license — Private, Sport, Recreational, Commercial, etc. This drives the training-requirements view and the AI recommendations.
• Medical certificate — class and expiration. The app warns you 30 days before expiry.
• Home airport — defaults the From/To fields when you log a flight.
• Existing flight time — if you're transitioning from a paper logbook or another platform, enter your hours-to-date so progress calculations start in the right place.

What's where

The four main areas:

• Logbook — every flight you've logged. New entry, edit drafts, see approval status.
• Training — progress toward your target license, with the AI recommendations on top.
• Schedule — your upcoming lessons and the request flow for new ones.
• Endorsements — instructor signatures and certificates issued to you.

How payments work

Lessons that involve flight time get billed at the end of the lesson, against the payment method you have on file. Settings → Billing is where you add a card. We tokenize via Stripe — Checkride never sees your card number.

For schools that bill monthly or per-block instead of per-lesson, your invoices land under Settings → Billing → Invoices. Your school admin can answer questions about payment cadence.