You watch the training. You do not take the file.

The student owns PAVE. The CFI writes on it. A parent is invited onto that same record — stages, hours, what is left — and nothing else. Not a folder the school emails. Not a guess after the lesson.

Invited onto the file
Stages and hours
One student
No instructor notes

How you get there

Someone who already holds the file sends you in.

The invite

The CFI, the school, or the student grants a parent seat on that one person. You get a link. You are not browsing a roster and picking a child.

You open it and agree

Same door the student used. The seat lives on their file. You do not get a second copy to carry off the field.

You watch the magenta line

Stages. Hours against the section they come from. What still has to come back. The next work the student already marked. That is the part of the map that belongs on a parent glass.

You do not sign up here. They send PAVE. You open it.

What you see

Progress. Not the pile.

Where they are

The course. The stage. Hours toward the certificate, written against the regulation — not a vibe from last Thursday.

What still slips

The student is asked when they open PAVE. What they mark comes back in the training. You see that map. You do not rewrite it.

That the file is moving

Lessons landed. Endorsements that exist on the line. A checkride sheet that is assembling itself. Enough to know the work is on the record.

One person

Your student. Not the rest of the hangar. Not the CFI’s other names. Not the school books.

What you do not see

The wall is the product.

A parent owns nothing on the file. Granted: progress on that student, stages only. Walled: instructor notes, other students, and money except what you yourself pay. The CFI still signs. The student still carries the seat. You are watching the line — you are not flying it, and you are not the office.

This is not a tracker on the airplane. It is not live GPS of a person. The record is what moves.