For Instructors

You teach people to fly. WingWrangler handles your scheduling, your students’ records, and the sign-off paperwork — so your time goes to flying, not filing.

This page covers the six things CFIs actually do here.

Set When You’re Available

Students can only book you in windows you’ve opened. Set this up first.

1. Open My Schedule → Availability.
2. Add a recurring pattern — for example, Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM.
3. Block off anything that isn’t flying: checkride days, dentist, vacation. A single-day block or a few hours both work.

If you don’t mark yourself available, you won’t show up when a student tries to book — even if you’re free. So do this before your first week.

See Your Day and Your Students

Dashboard shows your upcoming lessons and student status at a glance.

Training → My Students is your roster. For each student you can see where they are in the course, which maneuvers are done, which need work, and whether they’re ready for a stage check. The Stage Ready view filters to just the students who’ve finished their current stage — those are your scheduling priorities.

Log a Lesson After You Fly

After each flight, open the post-flight debrief and mark each maneuver:

Status	When You Mark It
Completed	You taught it. Exposure counts.
Proficient	The student flies it to ACS standard.
Needs Work	Not there yet — more practice scheduled.

The student’s progress record updates the moment you mark it. No paper lesson sheets, no month-end data entry.

Sign Off Logbook Entries

When a student logs a training flight, the entry comes to you for review — you’ll get a notification.

Open Logbook → Pending, check the times, route, and landings against what actually happened, then:

• Approve if it’s right. Both of you are recorded as certifying the entry — that’s the digital version of your signature in their paper book.
• Return with notes if it’s off. They logged 3 landings and you remember 2? Kick it back; they fix it and resubmit.

Solo students

Once you’ve issued a solo endorsement, your student logs their own solo flights with no instructor review. The endorsement is already on record.

Issue Endorsements

Endorsements are legal documents under 14 CFR — WingWrangler makes the paperwork fast, not casual.

1. Open the student’s profile → Endorsements.
2. Pick the template — “Solo - Initial” pulls the correct 61.87 language automatically.
3. Fill in aircraft make/model and any limitations (pattern only, day VFR, whatever you’re signing).
4. Sign electronically. It’s timestamped and stored in their permanent record.

Check before you sign

There’s no undo. Verify the student name, aircraft, limitations, and date on every endorsement before you sign it.

Track Your Earnings

Billing → My Earnings shows your instructor hours and what’s accrued on them — the same numbers your school pays you from. Your CFI rate is set by the school; if it looks wrong, tell your admin before the month closes.

Your First Day Checklist

1. Accept your invite

Email link from your school → set a password.

2. Set availability

My Schedule → Availability. Recurring weekly pattern plus blocks.

3. Meet your roster

Training → My Students. See where each student stands today.

4. Check pending entries

Logbook → Pending. Clear anything waiting on your signature.

Where to Go Deeper

• Training Programs — courses, stages, stage checks, Part 141 tracking in full
• Scheduling — the booking board, conflicts, maintenance blocks
• Digital Logbook — the sign-off flow, currency rules, exports
• Chat and Messaging — student threads, debriefs, group coordination