Private-Radar Brings AI Scheduling Assistant Charlie to EATS 2026

Flight school management software company Private-Radar has launched Charlie, an AI scheduling assistant designed for flight schools. The company describes it as the first AI scheduling assistant built specifically for the sector.

Charlie builds on the auto-scheduling feature Private-Radar introduced two years ago. Automation reduced schedulers’ workload, the company says, but every flight school has its own training requirements, aircraft availability, instructor schedules and student priorities, and building an efficient schedule takes more than automation alone.

With Charlie, schedulers describe what they need in natural language, and the assistant turns those requirements into a draft schedule. A scheduler could ask it to schedule students on a particular course, find students who haven’t flown in the past week, or prioritise students by their last flight. Charlie then identifies the right students and works out each one’s next lesson.

If a planned lesson can’t go ahead because an aircraft is unavailable, Charlie looks for an alternative lesson that fits the student’s training progression and the school’s constraints. Schedulers can also set their own rules, such as keeping 15 to 30 minutes between flights or adding a 30-minute refuelling break after four hours of flying.

The scheduler stays in control throughout. Charlie prepares the schedule, and the scheduler reviews it, makes changes and publishes it when ready. Private-Radar says the aim is for AI to make complex work easier without taking control away from the people responsible for it, so schedulers spend less time building schedules and more time on training.

Are you attending the European Aviation Training Summit (EATS)? Visit Private-Radar at Booth 616 to learn more.