Are there any books related to Flight school management?
 

Hi,

I'm considering my diploma work topic as "Flight school operating" or "Flight school management" or something like that... I'm wondering, if there are any books related to the topic? I have been looking such a long time along an internet and haven't found any. Also web sources could help.

I would also appreciate a keywords, which could help me to look for.

Thank you very much!

I too welcome someone else's advice of such a book, but I often scan around for aviation management books and I cannot recall anything on this topic. There is also not much else around, as Direct-Law said.

Other sources could be articles in the USA magazine Business & Commercial Aviation. I got 165 articles searching on "flying schools" [hint - use that as well as 'flight schools']:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/search/BasicSearch.jsp
Most of these are not relevant, but there could be a nugget of gold somewhere there.

There are plenty of Google hits on "flying school business plan", although I am not sure if there are really useful or are rather someone marketing a generic business plan that fits all sizes from candy store to airlines.

In fact the lack of publications suggests that the topic could be a worthwhile one indeed. :ok:

Thank you very much for valuable answer! :) It helped me a lot. I will continue to collect an information, if anyone else got more tips for me, you are welcome :ok:

My feel on your project is that you answer it by applying all the standard business school principles of running a small business, and adapting them intelligently (but not too much) to the flying school.

There will be some legislation requirements to meet (Chief Flying Instructor, etc), and your country's aviation department should detail those, and they should be included. I think a couple of interviews with the boss/owner at existing flying schools would give you a lot more detail, but I wouldn't do those too early. Rather get yourself well into the standard business school principles, and then do the interview to see what needs to be adapted.

I also found some software for running flight schools in my Google searches, and I would look at what that software does because those are things that you can build into your project (not the software - just the tasks).

And take a look at this post:
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/34451...ml#post4427166

Good luck.