Advanced features
Automate scheduling, push performance
Beyond the core, Cumulus automates what costs you the most time: flight scheduling, student-file analysis, payroll and mission planning — and you decide how far the automation goes.
Automated flight scheduling
Cumulus allocates each lesson to an instructor and an aircraft while respecting every qualification, the aircraft's remaining potential, instructor duty limits and airfield restrictions (maximum number of circuits, working-area allocation). It distributes hours fairly between students, or prioritises a course to meet end dates and progression deadlines. On every schedule change or cancellation, the plan adapts so no slot is wasted. You choose how much to delegate — full or partial automation — and you can restrict an instructor pool or reserve first flights and recurring flights to a mentor instructor (sponsor/tutor).
AI-augmented scheduling
Optionally, Cumulus calls on AI to estimate the success probability of each mission type and prioritise accordingly — for example switching to IFR, simulator or theory when poor weather is forecast, factoring in ceiling and crosswind forecasts.
AI student-file analysis
In one click, the instructor gets an AI analysis of the student's file: strengths, recurring difficulties and recommendations — for a better-prepared briefing and fairer follow-up.
Advanced human resources
Instructor bonus management, scheduling, time clock and an API link to the main payroll software: the whole administrative side in one place.
Complete mission planning
Prepare your navigations directly in Cumulus from an information-fusion map (airspace, NOTAMs, SUP AIP, military-zone activation, weather). Edit the navigation log / operational flight plan and integrate it into the flight briefing.
Integrated Foxtrot Aviation tracker
Cumulus connects to the Foxtrot Aviation tracking box: every recorded flight flows into Cumulus automatically, with block and flight times suggested leg by leg in the post-flight and the track attached to the flight. Fleet tracking: the live position of your equipped aircraft on the operations map. Debriefing: a map replay of the flight, with altitude and speed, to review every phase with the student. Flight-envelope exceedance monitoring: the events detected by Foxtrot are viewed on the Foxtrot portal, straight from the flight record.
The scheduling engine at a glance
Qualifications respected
Every assignment checks instructor privileges and the required ratings.
Aircraft potential & maintenance
Scheduling accounts for remaining potential and maintenance deadlines.
Instructor duty limits
Instructor hour and rest limits are respected automatically.
Fairness & prioritisation
Fair distribution of hours, or prioritising a course to meet deadlines.
Continuous re-adaptation
Every cancellation is reabsorbed: no slot lost.
Airfield restrictions
Maximum circuits and working-area allocation handled automatically.
Frequently asked questions
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