FlyHedral CFI is the flight-instruction workspace for independent instructors: talk through a lesson — in the cockpit or right after — and the logbook entry, the Part 61 progress, and the plan for next time all update on their own. No separate spreadsheet, no re-typing the same maneuvers into three places.
Jot what happened the way you'd tell another CFI — "steep turns, slow flight, three landings, still overshooting the 180" — and CFI turns it into a clean, paste-ready dual-instruction entry with the right 14 CFR Part 61 citations attached, pulled from a verified per-certificate catalog, not guessed.
From the live In-Flight pad the moment the lesson ends, from any lesson card ("Suggest logbook entry"), or by just describing the flight in CFI Chat.
A plain-English paragraph in your own voice, plus each maneuver tagged to its most specific Part 61 reference — tune it Verbose/Concise, and citations Full/Numbers/None.
Ticked items nudge the student's Part 61 requirements forward automatically, and the same detailed entry lands in their free portal — ready for the debrief.
"Since I started using this during my actual lessons, it's been a complete game-changer — for me and for my students. The depth of detail I'm getting logged, and the debriefs I can give from it, are on a different level."
From the run-up to the debrief — capture, reference, schedule, and track. Each tool does one thing well and hands off cleanly to the next.
Describe the lesson and get a clean, paste-ready dual-instruction entry with the right Part 61 citations attached — not quite right, tell it what to change and it revises.
A live lesson pad for the cockpit: type notes, sketch on a scribble pad, or talk to it. Autosaves on the device and syncs when signal returns — works with no bars at altitude.
Every maneuver with its objective, setup, completion standards, and common errors — pulled from the current ACS/PTS and filtered to the certificate a student is training toward.
Month and agenda views of scheduled lessons, synced from FlightCircle and Google Calendar feeds. CFI matches each booking to the right student — even under nicknames.
A per-certificate checklist of the aeronautical experience and proficiency items a student needs — hours, counts, endorsements — that fills in automatically as lessons are logged.
Each student gets their own login to see hours, requirements, endorsements, progress, and the detailed entry from every lesson — ready-made for the debrief. They can log solo flights, too.
The citation catalog behind every logbook entry is checked against the current Part 61 text — not reconstructed from memory — and the conversational layer goes past logging.
No setup project — import your logbook and you're basically there.
Upload your ForeFlight logbook CSV; CFI proposes a student for each person you've instructed.
Paste your FlightCircle and/or Google Calendar feed URLs so scheduled lessons flow in.
Capture the lesson in In-Flight, tap Finish, and let the AI write the entry. Paste it into ForeFlight.
Send each student their free portal login so they can follow progress and read their debriefs.
Steps 1 and 2 are shortcuts, not requirements. CFI understands plain language, so you can add a student or drop a lesson on your calendar just by telling it — type or talk, like "Add a new Private student named Mike". No imports or feed URLs required.
I'm Russell — a working CFI. I'm at the airport most days, teaching real students in real airplanes, and dealing with the same weather, checkrides, and paperwork as every other instructor and pilot.
FlyHedral didn't start as a company. Every one of these tools began as something I built for myself — because I needed it that week, for my own flying or my own students, and nothing out there did the job the way a pilot would want it done. Once they made my flying easier, keeping them to myself felt wrong.
So that's what FlyHedral is: the tools I actually use, built by someone who's still out there flying and instructing — not a software company guessing at what pilots need.
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