Where to Add Your Phone Number

To add your phone number, open My Profile from the user menu (your initial, top right). Enter your mobile number in the Phone field, check the box to receive texts, and save.

The phone number field and the text message opt-in on My Profile
The phone number field and the text message opt-in on My Profile

What SMS Notifications You'll Receive

Once you add your phone number, you will receive text messages for time-sensitive events, including:

  • Checkride offers — When a DPE or the automatic scheduler sends you a checkride offer, you'll get a text so you can respond quickly before the offer expires.
  • Messages from your DPE — Including their instructions for your checkride, whether they come when you book it or are released before it.
  • Changes from your DPE — If your DPE reschedules or cancels your checkride, or removes you from their waitlist.

To keep texts few, you get at most one every ten minutes, and none for a message that follows soon after another in the same conversation.

SMS Is Optional and Supplementary

Adding a phone number is entirely optional. SMS notifications supplement the notifications you see in the app — they do not replace them. Everything you are texted about is also in your messages and on your dashboard, whether or not you have a phone number on file. SMS simply provides an additional, faster channel for important updates.

Privacy

Your phone number is shared with instructors you have authorized and with DPEs whose waitlist you join or with whom you schedule a checkride. It is not visible to any other users on the platform.

Removing Your Phone Number

You can remove your phone number at any time by clearing the field in your profile settings and saving. SMS notifications will stop immediately. If you want to opt out of text messages from the platform but keep your number visible to instructors and DPEs, you can uncheck the opt-in box on your profile page instead of removing your number entirely.

Message Frequency and Rates

You will only receive text messages when there is a relevant event — typically a few messages per checkride cycle. Standard message and data rates from your carrier may apply.