How a flight school runs Checkride107: a boot-camp week, four Saturdays, or the gap between sessions

This is written for the person who runs a Part 107 program and has to decide whether a tool fits the way the class already works, before the instructor is asked to look at it. It is the generic version of what we say on a first call, and it says what is not there as plainly as what is.

The formats we keep hearing

A one-week boot camp: four classroom days of about six hours and a fifth day flying, often for high-school seniors in summer. A four-Saturday course running a few times a year. And a self-paced track, where the student registers through the school and should be able to start before the first class. One site has a computer lab; the other has students bring their own laptops. The registration and payment already run through the school’s own platform, and nobody wants a second one.

Checkride107 was built to sit under any of those rather than replace them.

One login per student

Every student signs in once with their own account. Nothing is shared, no class login, no roster spreadsheet. That account holds their drills, their timed sims and their readiness, and it follows them from the lab machine to their own laptop to their phone.

Two ways a program holds seats

A monthly block. You buy a number of seats, assign each to a student by email, and reassign it when that student finishes. Ten seats serve ten students at a time and as many across a year as you run classes. Buy, add and cancel from inside the product.

Prepaid seats. You buy seats once. Each is a single-use code. Hand it out through your own registration process, the same email that confirms the class, and the student’s ninety days start the day they activate it, not the day you bought it. This is the turnkey shape: the code is the only thing that has to reach the student, and your existing platform can carry it.

Either way the instructor gets the same view.

What the instructor sees

Readiness by student and by topic, with the sample size beside every score. Which drills and timed sims each student has completed. The topic the group should review before anyone books the exam, counted from the class rather than guessed. Only the summary leaves the student’s browser: score, sample size, gate status. Never their answers, never a question id. An instructor sees their own students and nobody else’s. Every missed question carries its FAA citation, and where it cites a regulation the section text opens under the explanation, so the instructor and the student start from the same page.

In the room and out of it

It runs in any browser. On a lab machine, the instructor can project a drill and lead the room through it, question by question, with the citation on screen after each answer. On a student’s own laptop or phone, the same drill runs self-paced, and the daily review brings back what they missed on its own schedule. The FAA documents behind every citation are on the resources page, free, with no account.

The material is organized in the five FAA areas: Regulations, Airspace, Weather, Loading and Performance, Operations. That is the natural order for a class, and the sims are weighted to the current blueprint across those same areas.

What is not there

A written syllabus. The five areas give the order, and we would rather build a four-Saturday or five-day outline with your instructor than hand you one that guesses at your hours.

A list of other schools. It is early, and we do not name programs that have not agreed to be named.

A pass rate. We publish none, ours or anyone’s, and the readiness gate is stated so you can check it rather than trust it. The guarantee terms are published in full and we would rather point at them than paraphrase.

The first step

A screen-share of forty-five minutes to an hour with the person who runs the program and the instructor who will use it. We walk the instructor view, then set up the free test drive on the same call, a few seats for fourteen days, once per program, so the instructor can judge it against real students rather than a demo. If the instructor signs in once at checkride107.com beforehand, the account exists and the seats attach while we talk.

If it is not the right fit, we would still value knowing that.