Creating a Block
On your calendar, click empty time or drag across it, and choose Available or Unavailable. The form opens with the day and times filled in, titled with what you chose ("Create Availability" or "Mark Time Unavailable"). Choose Single Day for a one-off block, or Recurring for a series.
Available and Unavailable Time
- Available — time you can conduct checkrides, with its locations and checkride types.
- Unavailable — time you can't, such as an appointment or a day off, with an optional note. Unavailability inside an availability block splits it, and the parts fill on their own.
Setting the Details
- Date and start and end times, on the hour or half hour, in local time at the checkride. The end time field lists only times after the chosen start time. We don't currently support blocks that span midnight — if you need that functionality, please contact us.
- Locations — where checkrides in this block can take place. With only one location on your account, the form doesn't ask: the block is there.
- Checkride types — what can be booked or offered in this block.
How This Block Can Fill
Below the types, on a grey panel since it is information rather than a setting, the form shows every way the block can end up fully booked with its checkride types, each as a bar with the time left over. Types of the same length count as one choice: "2 × 4h (Private ASEL Initial or Commercial ASEL Initial)". When every way leaves time over, it says how much and offers the end time that uses it: "1h is always left over. End at 4:00 PM to use all of it." When no type fits, it says so.
What Saving Does Right Away
When saving the block would make something happen at once, or within a day, an amber note says what will happen, and Create Availability asks you to confirm in a Save this availability? dialog first:
- Self-Serve — "Applicants can book this time as soon as you save: your release schedule has already opened this date", or that they can book it from its release, less than a day away. With the head start on, a date inside its head start is offered to your waitlist right away.
- Automatic — "Automatic checkride offers will be sent to your waitlist applicants immediately for this availability block", for a date inside your Days in Advance setting.
A block that would open or be offered but starts too soon for any checkride to fit past your minimum notice says it is too close to book (or to offer) instead, and saves without asking. In Manual, and for a date whose release is more than a day off, the form says nothing.
Editing and Deleting Blocks
Click a block on the calendar and choose Edit block to change it, or delete it from the form. Drag a block's top or bottom edge to change its times. Booked checkrides are never changed by editing or deleting an availability block.
