What Is a Recurring Series?

A recurring series repeats an availability block on the days of the week you choose, for example Monday and Thursday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, from a start date on, indefinitely or until an end date. Each date it covers is a block of its own on your calendar, booked and offered just like a one-off block.

Creating a Series

On your calendar, click empty time or drag across it and choose Available, then choose Recurring and set:

  • Days of the week — any combination, with shortcuts for weekdays, weekends and every day.
  • Start and end dates — leave the end date empty to repeat indefinitely.
  • Start and end times, locations and checkride types, as for a one-off block.
Create Availability, Recurring: the days of the week with shortcuts, the start and optional end date, then times, locations and types
Create Availability, Recurring: the days of the week with shortcuts, the start and optional end date, then times, locations and types

How a Block Fills

Each date of a series fills like any block: bookings go against either end of it, or right next to what is already booked, so the time left over stays together and doesn't allow gaps. The form shows every way a block can end up fully booked with its types, and the time each way leaves over; when every way leaves time, it suggests the end time that uses it. For example, an 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM block with Private (4h), Instrument (3h) and CFI (8h) checkrides can end up with one CFI checkride, two Privates, or a Private and an Instrument with an hour left over.

As for a one-off block, the form notes, and asks you to confirm, when saving opens dates for booking or starts offers immediately: "Applicants can book 4 of these dates (Dec 8 – Dec 29) as soon as you save: your release schedule has already opened them."

Editing a Series

Click one of its dates and choose Edit block, then whether the change applies to this event only, this and following events, or all events. The form shows which dates it applies to. Editing one event won't allow moving it to a different day; to do that, you'll need to delete it and create a new one-off block on the desired day.

Edit Recurring Event: this event only, this and following events, or all events
Edit Recurring Event: this event only, this and following events, or all events

Exceptions

  • A day off — mark the time unavailable on that date, or delete that date's availability.
  • Different hours for one day — edit that date only.
  • Vacation — mark the days unavailable; the series carries on afterwards.
Deleting a series, or some of its dates, removes the availability but never cancels checkrides already booked.