Freelance Pilot Management That Pilots Actually Use
Pilots respond via the CrewBench app (iOS & Android — highly recommended) or a one-tap SMS link. Their choice. Your crew confirmed either way.
The problem
Managing freelance pilots is harder than it should be
Contract pilots are your most flexible resource — but only if you can reach them, verify them, and confirm them fast.
Phone contacts, a WhatsApp thread, an email chain, a spreadsheet from last year — your contract pilots are everywhere except somewhere you can act on quickly when a trip opens.
You're texting 20 people individually, waiting for replies that may never come, and somehow supposed to fill a trip in under an hour. There has to be a better way.
You're relying on the pilot's word that their medical and type rating are current. That's fine until it isn't — and then it's your operation on the line.
The solution
Built for how freelance pilots actually work
CrewBench meets pilots where they are — their phone — and gives operators the visibility they need.
How Shino Aviation staffs a 20-aircraft, five-type fleet
Shino runs Part 135 charter and Part 91 private trips from one bench roster. One staffing call once took its CEO two hours of phone calls. Now he usually has a pilot confirmed within 10 to 15 minutes.
Read the Shino Aviation case study“The filtering is what I kept coming back to. I don’t need to remember who’s current on what anymore. I just filter by type, and the list is right there.”
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