Cavok is an established UK flight-school booking system, built with Pooleys and used by schools across the country. It does the fundamentals well. flyWilco takes the same job and rebuilds it around what a busy school feels every day: catching the clash before you do, keeping pilot currency in front of every approval, and a logbook that builds itself, with a genuinely free tier for the non-commercial groups that share your apron.
Credit where it is due. If you are on Cavok today you will recognise a lot here, and flyWilco matches it:
The same core job, with the things a modern school misses most.
Cavok lets you search the schedule for gaps. flyWilco detects double-bookings live as you type, so an aircraft or instructor can never be booked twice by accident.
Every booking request shows the pilot's last-flown readout, so nobody clears a rusty student by mistake. It is the safety context an approval step alone does not surface.
Hours from completed flights total up automatically for every member, a running head start on the logbook.
Set flat or percentage discounts per membership tier, with per-aircraft overrides, and flyWilco applies the right rate at booking instead of leaving it to you.
Cavok is a paid product. flyWilco is free forever for small non-commercial groups, with the full scheduling, approvals and weather experience, and paid tiers only when you grow into a school.
Beyond your home-field METAR, every member gets a live, colour-coded VFR weather map across the UK, Europe and the USA for go/no-go at a glance.
An honest, feature-by-feature look. The bottom rows are where both deliver.
flyWilco compared to Cavok, in brief.
Yes. flyWilco covers the same core job, booking, approvals, member management and weather, and adds live conflict detection, pilot currency, a self-building logbook and a free tier for small groups. UK flying schools and clubs are exactly who it is built for.
Yes. flyWilco includes CSV import for members and bookings, with downloadable templates and guided column mapping, so switching is straightforward.
flyWilco starts free for small non-commercial groups, with the full scheduling and approvals experience. Paid Club and School tiers are billed monthly or annually and are designed to be transparent and fair. See our pricing for current rates.
The headline differences are live double-booking detection, last-flown currency on every approval, a logbook that totals hours automatically, membership tiers that resolve pricing for you, and a genuinely free plan.
Yes, it is built UK-GA-first: UK aerodromes, METAR/TAF, civil twilight and GBP/VAT billing, with European and US weather on the map too.
Start free, import your members and bookings, and see the difference on your own schedule. No card required.