Question for the working CFIs in here.
Admin, remove if not appropriate here.
What's the biggest predictor you've seen of which students finish their PPL near the FAA minimums vs. the ones who end up at 70+ hours?
I'm a CFI/CFII but haven't been actively teaching in over a decade (software engineer now). But back when I was in the right seat, it always came down to consistency. The students who flew twice a week finished close to minimums. The ones who flew sporadically burned 10-20 extra hours just on regression at the start of every lesson.
So I spent the last year building a free app for student pilots around exactly that problem. It's called PilotBound. The core thing it does is track how often each student is actually flying and warn them when the gap is starting to cost them at the next lesson. Also auto-logs flights from the iPhone's GPS, catches milestones, sharable gps cards for social media and other things. It's completely free to use. It's even made for CFI's who are pursuing their ATP.
Two things I'd love to hear from anyone here:
Does this match what you see with your own students, or am I solving for the wrong thing?
If you want to take a quick look, what's one thing you'd want to see in it for YOUR side of the relationship, not just the student's?
Link in the comments. Genuine feedback is more useful than installs.
Thanks