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Shift trades for flight sim instructors

Upload your bid award and Tradewinds lists the coworkers who can legally take your day: same fleet, a qual that covers it, rest rules checked.

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Free during the pilot, then $4.99 a month for founding members.

How one trade goes

  1. Upload your bid award

    Save the award PDF from your phone and upload it. Tradewinds reads the event list and keeps the schedule, not the file.

    The Tradewinds schedule screen with the upload button and the saved October to November schedule

  2. Offer the day you want off

    Tap Offer on a sim day. The row turns blue and coworkers who need that day can see it.

    A schedule with Friday, November 20 offered and shown in blue

  3. Ask one person to swap

    Pick someone from the list of people who can legally take it. Only that person gets an email.

    The Trade tab listing a Qual 4 instructor who can swap on November 20, with a Propose button

Checks the rules before you ask. Fleet, qual, rest and the 20th.

Checks fleet, qual and rest

A Qual 4 covers Qual 3 events, never evaluator ones. A PRD5 day before a PRD1 is turned down.

Swap check, Nov 20
2 of 5
  • Same fleet: B787
  • Both instructors
  • Qual 4 covers FFS 6
  • No PRD5 before a PRD1
  • Same bid period

Emails only the person you pick

The subject holds the whole ask, both dates and events, so it reads from the lock screen.

  • CTTrade request11/20: my FFS 4 1200 for your FFS 6 0800Open
  • GDGus acceptedYour Nov 20 trade is agreed
  • After the 20thTrades sent after the 4th may be restricted

Puts your schedule in your calendar

One private link for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. Apple picks up changes within an hour.

Calendar sync
2 of 3 on
  • Apple CalendarUpdates within an hour
  • Google CalendarCan take up to a day
  • OutlookUses the same link as Apple

Lays out the trade form

Both sides' dates and events in the official form's order, ready to copy. You still submit the form yourself.

Agreed / Fri, Nov 20
  • CTCal T.FFS4 1200-1830Yours11/20
  • GDGus D.FFS6 0800-1430Theirs11/20
  • CTFleetB787, bothChecked11/20

Pricing

Free while the pilot runs. Billing starts later, monthly, cancel any time.

Every member can upload awards, offer days, send and accept requests and sync a calendar.

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Founding member

For anyone who joins in the first three months

$4.99 a month

  • The price stays while you stay a member
  • Everything every member gets
  • Free until billing starts

Member

For anyone who joins after the first three months

$9.99 a month

  • Everything every member gets
  • Cancel any time, no contract

Questions

The ones instructors asked before the pilot.

Does it log into company systems?

No. You save your award PDF and upload it here, and you submit the official trade form yourself, as you do today.

Who can see my schedule?

Other members, so the app can find swaps. It keeps the schedule it reads from the PDF, never the file or your seniority.

What if my schedule changes after the award?

Upload the new one and it replaces that period. Trades made outside Tradewinds only show once you do.

Can I trade with another fleet?

Only HFPD events. Everything else stays in your fleet, and instructors and evaluators never swap with each other.

Does it work on an iPad?

Yes, in Safari on iPad and iPhone and in any browser on a computer. Add it to your Home Screen to open it in one tap.