Instructor Updates
Apr 2025 Instructor Updates
We're Expanding—And New In-Person Page, Sharing Features, and More Coming
Happy April! This is a special edition of our monthly newsletter, and we wanted to keep you—our valued instructors—up to speed on all the developments.
April 5, 2025
1. We’re Officially Expanding 🌟
We’ve just launched our next big phase of Skyfarer Academy—and we’re thrilled to be featured in several top aviation publications including: Aviation International News, Halldale Group, Aviation Week, AFM.aero, Cessna Flyer Association, and more.
👉 Check out our official announcement here
2. In-Person Training Page is Live 🛬
We now have a dedicated landing page for in-person instruction, and more location-specific content is on the way!
To help students find the right match without being overwhelmed, we’ve also created a “Request an Instructor” form—if they don’t find a suitable listing, we’ll help search them manually.
✅ Action Required (if you haven’t already):
- Create your in-person instructor booking page
- Update your instructor profile bio (optional)
- Add your payout details—listings without this won’t be bookable
- Submit the instructor verification form: Please complete this within the next few days—we’ll follow up individually, and may temporarily close your listing if not received after one week.
3. New Features to Help You Grow 🔗
We’ve added “Facebook Share” and “Copy Link” buttons to all listing pages! You and others can now add a personalized message when sharing Skyfarer Academy links on Facebook.
These buttons make it easy for instructors, students, or even casual visitors to share a page directly to their Facebook timeline. When someone shares your page, their friends may see it and check it out—driving traffic through warm, trusted referrals.
Sharing also helps improve your page SEO, especially when the link is reposted on blogs, forums, or other websites. Our team is continuing to work on SEO improvements as well, including backlinks and content optimization.
4. What We’re Building Now & Next 🚧
- Fixed Booking Slots (Getting Closer to Completion): You’ll soon be able to set specific booking durations for your calendar booking listings—beyond just one hour. The booking will always last for as long as you determined: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, two hours... and even up to 11 hours and 45 minutes.
- Price Variations in Calendar Listings (In Progress): Offer multiple pricing options under a single listing.
- Search Sections on Landing Pages (In Progress): More intuitive, multi-field search bars are coming.
- Multi-location Listings (Next): Instructors who train at more than one location (e.g., airports) will soon be able to display all of their training locations on a single listing. These will also appear on the map view, giving students a clear picture of where instruction is available—without requiring multiple listings.
We remain humbled by your participation and support. Your feedback continues to guide our roadmap, and we're excited to keep building new features and improvements to better support you and other pilots on their journey.
Onward and upward,
The Skyfarer Academy Team