Terms of use

Effective September 29, 2026 · Updated October 26, 2026

• 1Who this is for
• 2What PAVE is — and is not
• 3Using PAVE
• 4Accounts
• 5Paid plans, cancelling and refunds
• 6Tower and Aileron can be wrong
• 7The PAVE connector
• 8SMS program terms
• 9Flight data, weather and NOTAMs
• 10Disclaimers
• 11Limit of liability
• 12Changes
• 13Governing law
• 14Who we are and contact

1. Who this is for

PAVE is for flight instructors, flight schools, student pilots, renters and pilots. While PAVE is in beta, the app is open by invitation, and the beta agreement you signed governs your use of the app; these Terms do not replace it. These Terms also cover this website, pavecfi.com.

2. What PAVE is — and is not

PAVE is a working training record built to help a flight instructor track a student's progress against 14 CFR — hours, stages, endorsements, currency. It is a tracking aid, not legal advice, and the signed logbook remains the legal record. Endorsement wording follows AC 61-65; hours are counted against 14 CFR §61.109. Nothing in the app or on this site is a substitute for your own judgment, your instructor's, or the regulation itself.

3. Using PAVE

• Use the app and this site only for their intended purpose — flight training records, scheduling, and the related helpers.
• Do not attempt to access another person's training record, another school's data, or any part of the service you have not been given access to.
• Do not use the in-app AI helpers (Tower, Aileron) to attempt to extract another person's identity, contact information or money data — both are built to refuse that, and attempting to defeat the safeguard is itself a violation of these Terms.
• A training record's accuracy is between you and your instructor or school. PAVE provides the tool; it does not certify anyone's training.

4. Accounts

You are responsible for keeping your sign-in secure and for what happens under your account. Tell your school or write to [email protected] if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission. You must be 13 or older to have your own PAVE sign-in, and if you are under 18 you use PAVE with your parent's or guardian's permission.

5. Paid plans, cancelling and refunds

• Students do not pay PAVE. A student pays their school directly, and PAVE is never in the flow of a student's money.
• Some accounts, such as a flight school's or an instructor's, need a paid plan. The plan and its price are shown before you subscribe.
• Plans are billed monthly and renew automatically every month until you cancel. Payment is by card through Stripe, on Stripe's own pages; PAVE never sees your card number.
• You can cancel at any time from Manage billing in PAVE. Cancelling stops the next renewal; your plan stays on until the end of the month you have already paid for.
• No refunds after a month is signed up: once a month's payment has gone through, that month is not refunded, in whole or in part.
• During the beta, no card is charged for anything.

6. Tower and Aileron can be wrong

Tower and Aileron are PAVE's AI helpers, built on Anthropic's Claude. They can be wrong, out of date or incomplete, even when they sound sure. They help you study and keep records; they are never the authority. The regulation and your instructor decide, and the final word on certification belongs to the FAA (the ACS, IACRA and the FAA's Office of the Chief Counsel). Check anything that matters before you act on it, and never use a helper's answer in place of a weather briefing, an instructor's endorsement or your own judgment as pilot in command.

7. The PAVE connector

PAVE offers a connector that lets a person's own outside AI assistant (for example, Claude or ChatGPT) read part of their PAVE record, only after that person signs in and taps Allow. It is read-only — it can never sign, endorse, grade, move money, or write anything into a record on its own — and it can never see more than that person could already see in the app themselves. Full details are on the Privacy page. Using the connector does not change who owns the underlying record, and does not make PAVE responsible for what your own AI assistant's maker does with a conversation once it leaves PAVE. What that assistant says is up to the company that makes it (Anthropic, OpenAI, or whoever built it), and it can be wrong too. The connector works for anyone with a PAVE account. During the beta, PAVE accounts are by invitation.

8. SMS program terms

Texting is being built in phases and is not switched on for any school yet — turning it on for a school still requires that school's own setting and your own opt-in first. This page describes the program as designed, ahead of that switch, per pave-back-end's notify-sms.js and the consent wording PAVE's own sign-up screen composes.

9. Flight data, weather and NOTAMs

Flight Following shows aircraft positions from adsb.lol, which makes them available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. PAVE keeps a copy of finished flights longer than adsb.lol does: each aircraft's transponder address, times, positions and altitude, as adsb.lol reported them, with nothing added and nothing about you, your school, your lessons or your logbook. That copy is offered free to anyone, under the same license, at api.pavecfi.com/v1/public/flight-data/.

Flight Following also reads aircraft positions from ADS-B Exchange (https://www.adsbexchange.com). That data is shown inside PAVE only and is never part of the free public copy.

PAVE's weather, NOTAMs and temporary flight restrictions come from public sources: the FAA (NOTAMs, through the FAA's NOTAM system, and TFRs); NOAA and the National Weather Service (reports and forecasts from aviationweather.gov, radar, satellite, lightning, model forecasts and storm outlooks); and Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canada's radar; Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada). None of these agencies or services endorses PAVE.

The place names on PAVE's satellite map come from Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com, public domain) and GeoNames (geonames.org). GeoNames makes its data available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and provides it as is, with no promise that it is accurate, current or complete. PAVE chose and thinned the names to fit the map. GeoNames does not endorse PAVE.

PAVE's weather and NOTAMs are not an official weather briefing. Before a flight, the pilot in command gets the information 14 CFR 91.103 requires.

10. Disclaimers

• PAVE is in beta, and beta software can have bugs. Report anything wrong to your instructor and to [email protected].
• PAVE is a tracking aid, not legal or aviation advice, and does not replace your own review of the regulation or your instructor's judgment.
• The signed logbook — not the app — remains the legal record of flight time.

11. Limit of liability

PAVE is provided as it is and as available. To the fullest extent the law allows, Alles Software, LLC is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits or lost data, arising from your use of PAVE. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim about PAVE is limited to the greater of what you paid PAVE in the 12 months before the claim, or $100. Some places do not allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you.

12. Changes

We may update these Terms as PAVE changes. We will date this page when we do, and when a change matters, PAVE asks you to agree again the next time you open the app.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, consistent with the beta agreement. Any dispute is heard in the courts of El Dorado County, California.

14. Who we are and contact

PAVE is run by Alles Software, LLC, of Placerville, California. Questions about these Terms, and legal notices: [email protected].

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See also: Beta agreement · Privacy.