You track each student's hours in your head, their requirements in a spreadsheet, and their endorsements on paper. Waypoint puts all three in one place you can check between lessons.
You teach. Meanwhile the record of where each student stands is scattered across four places, none of them built for an instructor with more than one student.
See each student's progress at a glance, with a flag on whoever needs an endorsement signed. No logbook does this.
Waypoint reads each student's flights and figures out what they've met and what's left: the dual cross-countries, the long solo, the night time. It shows the next thing to do, not a pile of hours.
Sign endorsements in the app. On checkride day your student sends the examiner a link that opens in any browser, no account needed.
Open it and you can see who's moving, who's stalled, and who's waiting on your signature. You stop texting students for their logbook.
Invite a student and pull in the hours they already have. Waypoint imports from the logbook they use now.
When they log a flight, their progress updates on its own. You know where they are without asking.
Sign endorsements when they're earned. At the end, your student walks into the checkride with the whole record in one link.
The things that help you most are the ones nobody else bothered to build.
Rosters today are locked inside school software you can't buy as one person. Waypoint gives you one anyway.
You can see exactly what each student still needs, so they don't show up to a checkride that gets discontinued.
A record that doesn't fall apart when it's exported. The thing that finally lets a student put the paper logbook away.
I'm Sami. I got my private certificate the slow, expensive way, tracking my own progress in a spreadsheet while my instructor signed endorsements in a paper book. Waypoint is the thing I wanted back then. I'm setting up the first handful of instructors myself right now, and I'd like to hear whether it's actually useful to you.
Try the live app →While it's in early access, yes. Your students stay free through their PPL. There may be a paid instructor tier later, but the CFIs who start now help shape it and won't get surprised by it.
Yes. 14 CFR §61.51 permits electronic logbook entries and endorsements, and AC 120-78 treats an electronic signature the same as a handwritten one. No FAA approval is required. Waypoint uses the current AC 61-65 endorsement wording.
Yes. Import the hours they already have from ForeFlight or MyFlightbook, and Waypoint keeps the record from there. They won't re-type a half-finished logbook.
No. Students use Waypoint free through their PPL. And what they're spending on training is never visible to you or the examiner.
Your student shares a read-only link. The DPE opens it in a browser, with no account and no app, and sees an as-of-date record of progress and endorsements.
No. It surfaces what the regulations require so you can stay organized. You and the examiner are still the ones who decide whether a student is ready.
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