Enroll More Students Every Month.
Pilot Magnet is a flight-school-only marketing and enrollment system built by a CFII. We turn ad spend into booked discovery flights, and booked flights into enrolled, high-value students.
Built by a CFII. Not a generalist agency guessing at your industry.
Real Results From a Real Flight School
This is what happened when Flight Fast Track put a real system behind their student pipeline.
- 80–100
- Qualified leads generated per month
- ~$6–8
- Cost per lead
- 15–20
- Extra discovery flights booked per month
Cost per lead is a platform-reported average and fluctuates with season and market.
Read the Full Case StudyMost Flight Schools Only Capture “Ready Now” Students
If your only marketing is a website and a contact form, you’re competing for the smallest group: the people ready to start right now. Everyone else is still researching, comparing schools, and deciding. The schools that grow do one thing differently — they create demand and follow up until prospects are ready.
Does this sound like you?
- You rely on word of mouth to stay busy
- Leads fall through the cracks
- Prospects ask questions, then disappear
- Your team is inconsistent with follow-up
- Missed calls never turn into conversations
- There’s no clear process for turning discovery flights into enrolled students
The Pilot Magnet Enrollment System
A simple pipeline that turns interest into booked discovery flights, then turns discovery flights into enrolled students.
Target the students worth $65,000–$95,000, not the ones worth one rating.
We target career-track prospects — students worth $65,000–$95,000 in lifetime value — not one-off ratings shoppers, using ad angles built around how future commercial pilots actually search.
Every lead hears from you in minutes — not whenever someone’s free.
Every lead gets an automated text and email within minutes. Response speed isn’t a nice-to-have: research shows responding within 5 minutes makes you roughly 4x more likely to qualify a lead than waiting just 10 — and waiting an hour can cut your odds by up to 90%.
A post-flight process your team runs the same way, every time.
A structured post-flight strategy session your team runs every time — the same framework that moved Flight Fast Track from one-off rating students to career-track enrollments that add revenue every month.
From One-Off Ratings to a Pipeline of Career-Track Students
Flight Fast Track had two problems holding back growth: unpredictable discovery flight bookings, and a time-building program running under capacity. Here’s what changed on a $1,000/month budget.
Read the Full Flight Fast Track Case Study$1,000
Per month total ad spend, split across two focused campaigns
80–100
Leads generated per month at roughly $6–8 per lead
15–20
Discovery flights booked per month from high-intent prospects
We Only Work With One Flight School Per Market
Once we’re your partner, we don’t take on your competitors. Your growth isn’t shared with the school down the runway.
The Pilot Magnet CRM Runs It All
Every lead, from first click to enrolled student, tracked in one place your front desk can actually use.
Automated Follow-Up
Every new lead gets a text and email within minutes, then a task for a real person to call within the hour — so no prospect sits in an inbox waiting on your team.
Visual Student Pipeline
See exactly who’s new, who’s waiting on a call, and who’s ready to book a discovery flight, all in one dashboard your front desk can actually use.
Discovery Flight Booking
Prospects can book a discovery flight straight from a text or email, synced to your schedule — no back-and-forth phone tag.
Built-In Reporting
See leads, booked discovery flights, and student conversion for every campaign.
Reactivation Campaigns
Leads who go cold or no-show get pulled back into a nurture sequence automatically, instead of falling out of the pipeline for good.
Centralized Communication
Email, text messages, and Facebook/Instagram messages all land in one unified inbox — so your team isn’t logging into four different apps to keep a conversation going.
Why Flight Schools Choose Pilot Magnet Over a Generic Agency
Typical Agency
Pilot Magnet
Joshua Maxson
Founder, Pilot Magnet
Embry-Riddle MBA & CFII
[email protected]Built by a CFII, Not a Generalist Agency
Pilot Magnet was founded by Joshua Maxson, a CFII and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate, who built this system specifically for flight schools. Every ad angle, automation, and follow-up script is built around what actually motivates students to enroll.
Common Questions
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How long is the contract?
Most Pilot Magnet partnerships run month-to-month after an initial onboarding period — no long-term lock-in.
How soon will we see results?
Ad campaigns typically start generating leads within the first few weeks. Most partners see meaningful pipeline movement inside the first 60 days — though full enrollment cycles (research, discovery flight, strategy session, enrollment) can take longer. Results may vary depending on your local market.
We already have a website. Do we need to switch?
No. If your current website is already working well, we can build your ad campaigns, landing pages, and booking flow to run alongside it — no need to replace what’s already working. Lead follow-up and reporting run through the Pilot Magnet CRM, so everything stays connected on our end.
Do you really only work with one school per market?
Yes. Once we take on a flight school in a given market, we don’t work with a competing school in that same area for the length of our partnership.
We’ve tried an agency before and it didn’t work. What’s different?
Most schools have. The gap usually isn’t just the ads — it’s everything after the click: the landing page, the follow-up speed, and the post-flight conversion process. We build and manage the whole chain, not just the ad account.
Ready to Fill Every Flight Block?
Request a free Growth Call and we’ll show you exactly where your enrollment pipeline is leaking, and what a real system would look like for your school.