Rideshare

Build time. Fly together.

Rideshare connects pilots in the club who want to share a cockpit — for safety pilot duty, building hours, mock checkrides, or just flying with someone who appreciates it as much as you do.

Give it a tryHow it works

What it’s for

Pilot-to-pilot, plain and simple.

Every reservation tagged for rideshare is one pilot looking for another pilot to share the flight. Some common reasons:

Building hours

Two pilots, one airplane, one logbook entry each. Split the cost, log the time, get closer to your next rating or job minimum.

Safety pilot

Need a safety pilot for hood time? Find another club pilot ready to log the right seat while you knock out approaches under the foggles.

Mock checkrides

Commercial students, CFI candidates, and IPC prep all benefit from a friendly stand-in examiner. Find another pilot at the same point in their training.

Cross-country company

Cross countries are more fun with a second pilot. Trade legs, see new airports, share the costs. All the experience, half the cost.

$100 hamburger, four eyes

Heading to French Valley for breakfast? Bring another pilot along. Two sets of eyes, two perspectives on the pattern, one good Saturday.

Maneuvers practice

Working on chandelles, lazy 8s, or eights-on-pylons? A second pilot in the cockpit means a second set of eyes on traffic and an honest opinion on technique.

How it works

Tag a flight. Or find one.

You can be the pilot tagging a flight, or the one looking. Search actively, or sit back and let alerts come to you.

Offer

Tag your reservation

Booking a flight and open to having another pilot along? Check the Rideshare box and add a note about what you're up to.

Browse

Search active flights

Browse current rideshare flights in the club. Filter by aircraft, day, time, or destination — find something today, this weekend, or next month.

Subscribe

Save an alert

Don't see what you want? Save your search as an alert and get an email the moment a matching flight shows up.

Connect

Reach out, work it out

Tap to call, text, or email the pilot. Talk through the plan, agree on who's logging what, split the cost, fly.

What gets shared

You’re in control.

Rideshare is opt-in for every pilot, and you decide what to share.

You choose what to share

The first time you tag a reservation as rideshare, pick what gets included in match emails: phone, email, both, or neither. Change your mind anytime in Settings.

Visible only to club members

Rideshare reservations and alerts are scoped to your club. No one outside the club ever sees your reservation or contact info through this feature.

Stop sharing in two clicks

Set both phone and email to off, and your contact info stops appearing in match emails — and your phone number is removed from our database entirely.

FAQ

Common questions.

Do I have to book a flight in both ScheduleMaster and Centerline?+
Nope! Just book the flight in Centerline — your flight automatically shows up in ScheduleMaster as usual. Centerline is an extension of your existing ScheduleMaster account, not a separate system. More on that here.
Can I just use ScheduleMaster directly?+
You can — “Rideshare” is a flag in ScheduleMaster, and reservations you book there with that flag set are perfectly valid. But ScheduleMaster has no way to search for rideshare flights or send alerts when matching ones come up — that logic lives entirely in Centerline. Reservations booked outside Centerline will eventually appear in searches but won’t trigger alerts. If you want your flight to be discoverable right away, book through Centerline.
What's a good "Pilot's note" to write?+
Be specific about what you’re flying and what you’re hoping for. “Need a safety pilot for hood approaches at SEE and MYF” is great. “Going to KSBA for breakfast, looking for company” is great. “Practicing chandelles and lazy 8s, want a second set of eyes” is great. The more specific, the better the match.
What do I do once I find a Rideshare partner?+
Once you’ve found a partner, head to the Home page of the app and find the flight in your “Upcoming Reservations” list. Mark it as Fulfilled and it’ll stop coming up in future Rideshare searches. Partner bailed? Re-open it the same way.
What happens if I cancel a Rideshare reservation?+
It’s cancelled in ScheduleMaster like any other reservation. The rideshare listing disappears from search, and no further match emails go out for that flight.
Do I have to share my contact info?+
No. You can choose to share your phone, email, or share nothing at all. If you share nothing, recipients still get a match email but they’ll need to open the reservation in Centerline (or ScheduleMaster) to figure out how to reach you. We only store your phone number in our database if you choose to share it in alert emails. Turn it off, and it’s deleted.
Can I turn this off entirely?+
Yes. Don’t tag any reservations as rideshare, don’t save any alerts, and the feature is invisible to you. If you’ve previously used it and want to clean up, head to Settings → Rideshare to set both contact methods to off.

Important

Pilots flying together — not rides for hire.

Rideshare is for pilots who want to share a cockpit with another pilot. It is not a way to find passengers for your flights, advertise transportation, or “hold out” rides to non-pilots.

Specifically, this feature is not for:

  • Offering rides to non-pilot friends, family, or strangers
  • Charging passengers for transportation
  • Holding out as available to provide air transportation
  • Anything that would require Part 119 or Part 135 certification

When two pilots fly together and split direct operating costs (fuel, oil, rental, airport fees) on a pro-rata basis, they’re operating under the longstanding pilot-sharing provision of 14 CFR §61.113(c). That’s the framing this feature supports.

Find someone to fly with.

Browse open flights from other pilots in the club.

Give it a try