Comparison

WingWrangler vs
Flight Circle

Flight Circle is $10 per aircraft per month. We are $25. They are cheaper. What follows is what the difference buys, where they are better, and what each contract says about leaving. Every claim about them is quoted from their own pages.

The short version
Fly with Flight Circle if
  • Scheduling, dispatching and fleet management is all you need, and the rest of the workflow lives in tools you already pay for.
  • Per-aircraft price is the deciding number, full stop.
  • You fly a handful of tails and want the cheapest competent scheduler.
  • You want a 60-day trial before anybody asks for a card.
Fly with WingWrangler if
  • One bad squawk has to pull an aircraft off the board, not sit in a group chat.
  • Part 61/141 stage checks and a FSDO audit export have to come out of the same system that booked the flight.
  • You want dispatch, maintenance, training and billing in one bill instead of four subscriptions stitched by copy-paste.
  • You operate under a regulator other than the FAA, or you want the record-retention and export rules of your jurisdiction built in.
  • Month-to-month with no prepayment and no reactivation fee is a requirement, not a preference.
Price, on the record
Flight Circle $10/aircraft

Unlimited users and instructors, phone and email support, per their own docs. No per-student charge. 60-day trial.

WingWrangler $25/aircraft

Club, up to 10 aircraft, unlimited members, dispatch and maintenance included. Academy is $10/aircraft plus $12 per active student per month.

Flying club

6 aircraft, 42 members, no student billing

Flight Circle $60/mo · WingWrangler Club $150/mo · we cost $90/mo more ($1,080/yr)
Part 141 school

12 aircraft, 40 active students

Flight Circle $120/mo · WingWrangler Academy $600/mo · we cost $480/mo more ($5,760/yr)

Both figures are list price with no discount applied. Ours come from the pricing page; theirs from Flight Circle's pricing doc . The delta above is the real cost of the argument on this page. Everything below is why a school pays it, and where they should not.

In their favour

What Flight Circle does well, in their own words.

They publish more about how they operate than most vendors in this market, which is why we can quote them this precisely. These are the reasons a school should stay.

They publish a Part 61/141 training module that tracks course progress, with instructor grading and electronic sign-offs, and they state their e-signatures comply with FAA AC 120-78A. Enabling it means contacting them.

"The Training Module allows you to enroll students into courses and keep track of their progress in the course. The instructors can mark off on tasks completed, grade the students, and sign off on lessons with their electronic signature."

Flight Circle: Part 61/141 Training Module · checked 10 September 2026

They publish a QuickBooks Online sync that runs one way, Flight Circle to QuickBooks, a couple of times a day and enabled on request.

"Syncing happens a couple times per day. Data syncs one way: From Flight Circle to QuickBooks."

Flight Circle: QuickBooks Online Integration · checked 10 September 2026

They publish a customer base across 14+ countries and multiple segments, and describe the product as scheduling, dispatching and fleet management.

"Flight Circle is trusted by thousands of users at flying clubs, flight schools, universities and colleges, partnerships, and FBOs for charter and aircraft management. Our customers span 14+ countries."

Flight Circle: FAQ · checked 10 September 2026

Support is phone and email during business hours, with urgent issues handled seven days a week.

"Urgent issues will be addressed 7 days a week."

Flight Circle: Contact · checked 10 September 2026

Offline use is still ahead of them: they publish it as something coming, not something shipped.

"Soon we will have offline options and more."

Flight Circle: User FAQ · checked 10 September 2026
Line by line

Every row is sourced, including the ones we lose.

Their column is quoted from their own pages, linked, with the date we read it. Where they publish nothing on a point, the row says so. We do not fill that silence with a guess about what their software does.

Line item
Flight Circle (quoted, linked)
WingWrangler
Published price
$10/aircraft or sim/mo, unlimited users and instructors, phone and email support included. A 60-day trial. Source
$25/aircraft/mo on Club (2.5× theirs), unlimited members within the 10-aircraft cap
Per-student charge
None. Users and instructors are unlimited at the flat per-aircraft rate. Source
Academy meters students: $10/aircraft + $12/active student/mo. Clubs with no instruction don't pay it
Contract term
Not published. There is no notice period, auto-renewal or cancellation procedure on their pricing or terms pages. Source
Month-to-month, published, cancel in the app. No notice window, no renewal trap
Refunds
Sales are final: “No refunds.” Source
Cancel and the next month simply does not bill, so there is nothing to refund
Bank transfer (ACH)
Available on request: “Contact us if you would like to enable ACH Payments for your users.” Source
Self-serve: the member adds their own bank account, verifies it by micro-deposit, and pays by ACH
Payment processing
Through Fiserv, at published rates of 1.09% to 2.89% plus $14.95/mo. They charge nothing on top, and can auto-surcharge credit cards. Source
Direct Stripe Connect: your own account, Stripe's published rates, every fee visible to you. Card surcharging is not enabled
Getting your data out
A published self-serve path: Users Export plus the reports in the Downloads section of the Reports page. Source
Logbook CSV and FAA-format PDF, a Part 141 audit CSV, and report CSVs in-app, plus a full dump on request at no charge
Deleting a person
The record is kept: “if you delete a user, it only moves them to the Deleted list.” Source
Same principle, stated up front: records are retained for the retention period your regulator requires rather than silently erased
Training records
A published Part 61/141 module: course enrolment, progress, instructor grading and electronic sign-offs; enabling it means contacting them. Source
Part 61 & 141 syllabi, stage checks, and a one-click FSDO audit report, on from day one and self-serve
QuickBooks
A published one-way sync to QuickBooks Online, a couple of times a day, enabled on request. Source
Invoices and payments sync to QuickBooks Online over self-serve OAuth, on demand or on a schedule
Maintenance
Not published as a workflow. Fleet management is in their published product description; there is no published squawk-to-work-order path. Source
Squawk → tracked work order against live Hobbs and Tach. A grounding squawk pulls the tail off the board
Offline / poor signal
Ahead of them, by their own words: “Soon we will have offline options and more.” Source
Installable app with an offline shell: the schedule you last loaded still opens, and a message composed offline sends when the signal returns
Regulator coverage
No per-jurisdiction statement is published; their marketing claim is customers across 14+ countries. Source
Ten regulators (FAA, TCCA, AFAC, EASA, UK CAA, CASA, DGCA, CAAC, JCAB, CAAS). Retention, endorsements and export shapes follow the one you pick
Support
Phone and email during business hours, included in the price, with urgent issues handled seven days a week. Source
Email support from the team that builds it, plus a live demo environment and documentation you can read before you buy
API access
Reviewed on request: “Contact us to review API options.” Source
Not offered today. Our public API is on the roadmap and we would rather say so than imply it exists

Green marks a line where the answer is clearly ours, amber where it is clearly theirs, grey where a buyer could reasonably call it either way. We lose five lines outright: price, per-student metering, support, processing and API access.

Before you sign either

What each contract actually commits you to.

This section is short because Flight Circle's published terms are short: their legal page carries one substantive line about sales, and no cancellation, notice or exit procedure anywhere. That silence is worth a question on your demo call. Ours is quoted from our own commitments.

Point
Flight Circle
WingWrangler
Refunds
“Unless your Organization says otherwise, all sales are final. No refunds.” Source
Month-to-month. Cancel and the next month does not bill.
Notice period
Not published. No notice period, auto-renewal or cancellation procedure appears on their pricing or terms pages. Source
None required. No annual term, no renewal window.
Exit fees
Not published. Source
None. No reactivation fee, no reconnection fee, no exit charge.
Where your data lives
“Flight Circle, LLC. is located in the United States and as such all data is stored and processed in the U.S.” Source
US-hosted today. Jurisdiction-specific residency is a function of the regulator you select, and we will say which regions we host in before you sign.
If you do move

Export your members and aircraft from Flight Circle, upload the CSVs, correct the detected column mapping, and look at the preview counts before anything is written. Bookings, logbook entries, and maintenance items are being added to the importer now; they are not supported yet. The full checklist, including what stays manual, is on the switch page, and the Migration Grant covers up to 12 months of a remaining contract. Worth noting: Flight Circle publishes a concierge migration that will take your old system's login and move current and future reservations over on go-live morning. If a done-for-you cutover matters more than doing it yourself, they are better at that than we are.

FAQ

The questions a buyer actually asks.

Is WingWrangler cheaper than Flight Circle?

No, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Flight Circle publishes $10 per aircraft or sim per month with unlimited users and instructors. WingWrangler Club is $25 per aircraft per month, and Academy adds $12 per active student. On a 6-aircraft club that is $90 more per month, $1,080 a year. If per-aircraft price is the only number on your spreadsheet, they win that line.

So what does the extra buy?

The parts of running a school that happen after the booking exists. A squawk becomes a tracked work order against live Hobbs and Tach, and a grounding squawk takes the aircraft off the board. Every dispatched flight invoices itself. Part 61/141 stage checks and the FSDO audit export come out of the same system. Bank transfers are self-serve rather than a support request. If you already pay for separate tools that do those things, add their invoices to Flight Circle's price before you compare; the gap narrows or reverses. If you do not have those tools yet, the comparison is not $10 against $25.

Do you mark up card processing?

No. Charges run through Stripe on your own connected account, so you see Stripe's fees directly. Flight Circle processes through Fiserv at published rates of 1.09% to 2.89% plus $14.95/month and states it adds nothing on top. Put your actual monthly volume through both rate cards rather than comparing the headline percentage, and note that they can automatically surcharge credit cards, which we do not do.

What does Flight Circle publish that we do not?

A phone line with published hours (888-394-9909, business hours plus urgent issues seven days a week), a concierge migration service that will take your old system's credentials and move current and future reservations on go-live morning, and 14+ countries of customers. Offline use, per their own FAQ, is still something they are working on. We do not have a phone line, and our importer is self-serve rather than done for you.

Which contract should worry me more?

Read both. Flight Circle's published terms run one substantive line on refunds (all sales final) and publish no cancellation procedure or notice period, which is worth asking about before you sign. Ours is month-to-month with published exit commitments and no exit fee. Neither document is longer than a page; the section above quotes theirs verbatim and links it.

What happens to our records if we switch and then change our minds?

You get them back. Full CSV export plus your uploaded documents, on request, at no charge. Student-record retention under 14 CFR 141.101 and instructor-endorsement retention under 61.189 stay your obligation either way, so keep your own copy of every export. That is true whichever system you are on.

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They quote on request. Our pricing is published.
WingWrangler vs Flight Circle

They publish $10/aircraft. We publish $25. The honest comparison.
WingWrangler MyFBO Replacement

No live product left to compare. Six months free when you switch.
WingWrangler vs Spreadsheets

Free, until you count the hours and the mistakes.

Or skip ahead: see plan pricing and the live estimator, or explore the live demo.

Run both for a month.

Our free plan covers one aircraft, so testing costs nothing. Import your fleet, dispatch a week of real flights, and see whether the difference is worth $$90 a month, or whether Flight Circle at $10 is already the right answer for your club.

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Exit terms

You can always leave.

If we are the wrong call, you should be able to walk without paying for the privilege. Flight Circle publishes its price and so do we. Here is what leaving us costs.

Export on request

Ask and you get a complete CSV export of members, aircraft, bookings, logbook entries, maintenance items, and invoices, plus all uploaded documents as raw files.

No export fee

Leaving costs nothing. There is no reactivation fee, reconnection fee, or exit charge in our terms.

Month-to-month

No annual term, no renewal notice window, no auto-renew trap. Cancel and the next month simply doesn't bill.

Published pricing

The rate is on the pricing page, not in a confidential quote. You may repeat it to anyone, including a competitor.

Export buttons that exist today
  • Logbook: CSV, FAA-format PDF, and a Part 141 audit CSV
  • Reports: utilization, instructor hours, training progress, and receivables as CSV
  • Import error reports: per-row failures exported as CSV

A complete account export (every database table as CSV plus all uploaded documents) is provided by support upon request. It is always free.

Retention is your obligation, not ours

The FAA holds the school and instructor to strict retention timelines. No software vendor can absorb that legal duty. Keep your own copy of every export. We hand all data back whenever you ask, including the day you cancel.

What we do not claim: we hold no SOC 2 report today (status is on the security page) and we publish no uptime figure, because we have not published one you could hold us to. Ask us again when that changes.

Sources

Check us, not us on them

Every figure and quotation above that belongs to Flight Circle came off one of these pages on the date shown: nineteen facts across their pricing, terms, security and product docs. Vendor pricing and terms change; if you find a discrepancy, theirs is right and ours needs updating.