One View of Your Time

The Checkrides page shows your checkrides as a list, or on a calendar by day, week or month. Switch with the List, Day, Week and Month tabs, and move between periods with the arrows and the This Week, This Month or Today button.

In Self-Serve, Self-Serve Releases under Checkrides in the sidebar shows each release and its status information; in Automatic, or in Self-Serve with a waitlist head start, Automatic Scheduling lists what the scheduler has offered on your behalf. See Following Your Releases and Automatic Scheduling History.

Week view showing availability blocks with open time, a confirmed and an offered checkride, unavailability, time left over, time too near a checkride elsewhere, and a block marked Not bookable
Week view showing availability blocks with open time, a confirmed and an offered checkride, unavailability, time left over, time too near a checkride elsewhere, and a block marked Not bookable

Availability Blocks

Your availability blocks are always drawn, white against the hatched background of the rest of the day. Inside each block you see:

  • Checkrides — confirmed checkrides in green, and checkrides you have offered and are waiting on in yellow.
  • Waitlist offers — time the scheduler has offered to someone on your waitlist, also in yellow: "Offered to Maya Chen".
  • Unavailability — a red hatch over time you have marked unavailable.
  • Free time, tinted and labelled with how it could be booked.

What the Labels Mean

  • Open · Private ASEL Initial — applicants can book this time now, for the checkride types that still fit there (when Self-Serve is enabled).
  • Waitlist first until Oct 10 — the date is in its waitlist head start: the scheduler offers it to your waitlist before it opens to everyone.
  • Opens Oct 10, 1500Z — your release schedule opens this date for booking then.
  • Waitlist offers — the scheduler offers this time to your waitlist (when Automatic Scheduling is enabled).
  • Left over — free time that none of the block's checkride types fits in.
  • Too close to book — closer than anything may be booked or offered.
  • Too near a checkride elsewhere — a checkride at another location is too close in time for any of the block's locations.
Two dates next month: one in its waitlist head start, labelled Waitlist first until Oct 10, and one labelled Opens Nov 10, 1500Z
Two dates next month: one in its waitlist head start, labelled Waitlist first until Oct 10, and one labelled Opens Nov 10, 1500Z
This week: tomorrow labelled Too close to book, and later dates open for booking
This week: tomorrow labelled Too close to book, and later dates open for booking

In Manual, free time carries no label: nothing is offered or booked unless you do it.

Blocks That Can't Be Booked

In Automatic and Self-Serve, a block in which nothing can ever be booked or offered has a dashed amber border and a Not bookable tab. Hover over it, or open it, to see why: no checkride type fits in it (every type is longer than the block, or than every part your unavailability leaves of it), it has no checkride types, or none of its locations is still on your list.

The panel of a two-hour block saying it is not bookable: no checkride type fits in it
The panel of a two-hour block saying it is not bookable: no checkride type fits in it

A Block's Panel

Click a block to open its panel:

  • its time and checkride types, and its locations when you have more than one
  • How it's filling — a bar of the block with its bookings, unavailability and free time, each range named beneath
  • Bookable now — every time applicants can book in it, with the types (and, with more than one location, the locations) for each (when Self-Serve is enabled)
  • any type that no longer fits, and the free time left that is too short for it: "CFI ASE Initial no longer fits: only 4h is left, 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM". When none of the block's types fits any more, it says so once: "No more checkrides are possible to book, as there is not enough available time remaining for Private ASEL Initial, the shortest allowed type: …".
A block's panel showing how it is filling, the times bookable now, and a type that no longer fits
A block's panel showing how it is filling, the times bookable now, and a type that no longer fits

From the panel you can Edit block, Mark time unavailable (unavailability over the block's time, which you can then shorten), or Offer a checkride here.

Adding Time and Checkrides

Click empty time, or drag across it (the range snaps to the half hour as you drag), and choose what to put there: Available time, Unavailable time, or Offer a checkride. Each opens its form with the day and times filled in. A choice the time already has is greyed out with why: a range that overlaps an availability block can't become another one ("Already available then").

A range dragged across empty time on Sunday, with the menu offering Available, Unavailable, or Offer a checkride
A range dragged across empty time on Sunday, with the menu offering Available, Unavailable, or Offer a checkride

To change a block's times quickly, drag its top or bottom edge: a grip shows on both edges while the pointer is over the block, and the edge follows the pointer on the half hour. Letting go opens the block's form with the new times (for a series, first asking which dates to change). Click unavailability to edit or delete it.

The pointer over a block of open time on the week view: a grip on its top edge and on its bottom edge
The pointer over a block of open time on the week view: a grip on its top edge and on its bottom edge

Month View

In the month view each block is one chip giving its times, how many checkrides are booked in it, and how it could be booked, for example "8–4 · 1 booked · open". A dashed amber chip is a block that can't be booked. Checkrides outside your blocks appear on their own. Click a day to open it in the Day view.

Month view with one chip per availability block
Month view with one chip per availability block

Checkride Colors

  • Offered (yellow) — proposed to an applicant, not yet accepted.
  • Confirmed (green) — booked.
  • Complete (blue) — conducted, with an outcome recorded.
  • Cancelled (red) — shown only with Show Cancelled.
The List view with cancelled checkrides shown: Cancelled, Confirmed and Pending (offered) checkrides, each with its checklist progress
The List view with cancelled checkrides shown: Cancelled, Confirmed and Pending (offered) checkrides, each with its checklist progress

Click a checkride to open its detail view, where you can reschedule it, cancel it, or record its outcome.

Times on the calendar are the local clock time at the checkride location. Releases are the one exception: a release is a single moment for everyone, so it is given in Zulu time, like 1500Z.