Terms of Use
Sling Pilot Academy Hub
These terms cover your use of the Sling Pilot Academy Hub mobile apps and website ("the Hub"), run by Sling Flying Club, LLC dba Sling Pilot Academy ("Sling", "we", "us"). By signing in, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Hub.
These terms are about the Hub only. Your flight training, tuition, refunds, aircraft rental and employment are governed by your enrollment agreement, rental agreement, employment terms and Sling's policies and handbooks ("your other agreements"). If these terms conflict with one of those on a training, payment or employment matter, the other agreement applies.
1. Who can use the Hub
- The Hub is for people Sling has a record for: students, people who have enrolled and not yet started, instructors, staff and alumni.
- You must be at least 18 years old to use it.
- What you can see and do depends on your role. Your access can change when your role changes, and ends when you are no longer a student, instructor, employee or approved alumnus.
2. Your account
- Give accurate information, and keep your email address up to date.
- Keep your password private. Do not share your account or use someone else's.
- You are responsible for what is done through your account. Tell us straight away if you think someone else has used it.
3. The Hub is not your official record, and not a flight-planning tool
This section matters most. Please read it.
- Flight Schedule Pro is the official record of your schedule and training. The Hub copies it roughly once an hour and can be out of date or wrong. If the Hub and Flight Schedule Pro disagree, Flight Schedule Pro is correct. Check anything that matters (a reservation time, an aircraft, a cancellation) in Flight Schedule Pro or with Dispatch.
- The pilot in command is always responsible for the safety of a flight and for every preflight decision. Nothing in the Hub changes that.
- The flight risk assessment is an aid, not an authorization. A low score does not make a flight safe and does not replace your judgment, your instructor's, or Sling's dispatch rules.
- Weather, aircraft status, hours, currency dates and progress figures in the Hub are for convenience. Do not rely on them for flight planning, for legal currency, or as proof of aeronautical experience. Use official sources and your logbook.
- Pace and progress indicators (such as "On track" or "Behind plan") are estimates. They are not a promise about when you will finish, what your training will cost, or whether you will pass a checkride.
- Notifications can fail. A reminder that does not arrive does not excuse a missed reservation, deadline or requirement.
- In an emergency, call 911 or the appropriate authority. Do not use Hub messages or safety reports to report an emergency in progress.
4. Rules for using the Hub
You agree not to:
- look at, copy or share another person's information unless your role at Sling requires it, and never outside Sling;
- upload anything false, forged or altered, or sign a form or risk assessment for someone else;
- harass, threaten or demean anyone in messages, profiles or posts;
- upload anything you have no right to share, or anything unlawful;
- try to get around access controls, test the Hub's security without written permission, or interfere with how it runs;
- use scripts, scrapers or other automated tools on the Hub;
- copy, resell or build a competing product from the Hub.
If you are staff or an instructor, you also agree to use student and colleague information only for your job, to follow Sling's confidentiality policies, and to contact people through the Hub's Call and Text buttons only for Sling business.
5. What you submit
- You keep ownership of what you upload and write. You give Sling permission to store, display, review and share it as needed to run the Hub and your training, as described in the Privacy Policy.
- You confirm that documents you upload are genuine and belong to you.
- Profile and community content (Our Team, mentor and alumni profiles) is visible to other Hub users. Share only what you are comfortable with them seeing. We can remove content that breaks these terms.
- Safety reports: Users are given the opportunity to make anonymous safety reports if desired. The Hub’s systems aim to provide as much anonymity as possible, but cannot guarantee it. The app does not log any personally identifiable information for anonymous safety reports.
- Referrals: only refer someone who has agreed to be contacted by Sling.
6. Messages and notifications
- By using the Hub you agree to receive account, training and operational messages in the Hub and by email. You can turn push notifications off.
- Text messages: using the Hub does not sign you up for texts. They are offered only to instructors and staff, and you agree to receive them only if you turn on "Text me training-log reminders" in the Hub's Settings: work-related reminders from Sling Pilot Academy at the mobile number in your Flight Schedule Pro profile, about 1–4 texts a month. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help; for questions, contact the front desk at frontdesk@slingpilotacademy.com or 424-552-1728. You can turn texts off at any time, and opting out does not change your work responsibilities.
7. Other companies' services
The Hub links to or relies on services run by others, including Flight Schedule Pro, King Schools, ForeFlight, Zoho Sign and Sling's Systems Trainer. Their own terms and privacy policies apply to your use of them, and we are not responsible for them.
The apps are distributed through Apple's App Store and Google Play. Apple and Google are not parties to these terms and are not responsible for the Hub or for supporting it.
8. Sling's rights in the Hub
Sling and its licensors own the Hub, including its software, design, text and the Sling name and logos. We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable permission to use the Hub for your training or work at Sling. We may use feedback you give us about the Hub without owing you anything.
9. Changes, availability and ending access
- We may change, add or remove features, and the Hub may be unavailable at times for maintenance or because of faults.
- We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if your relationship with Sling ends, or to protect the Hub or other people.
- You can stop using the Hub and delete your account at any time (use the account deletion request in the Hub). Deleting your account does not end your other agreements with Sling or delete your official training records.
10. No warranties
The Hub is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent the law allows, Sling makes no warranties about it, express or implied, including that it will be accurate, uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or fit for a particular purpose.
11. Limit of liability
To the extent the law allows, Sling is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, arising from your use of the Hub or from relying on information shown in it.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here changes the rights and responsibilities in your other agreements.
12. Your responsibility to Sling
If you misuse the Hub or break these terms and a third party makes a claim against Sling because of it, you agree and understand the company may take administrative action, and hold the right to enforce possible legal action.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. The effective date at the top shows the latest version. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the Hub or by email before it takes effect. Using the Hub after that date means you accept the new terms.
14. General
If part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a term, we can still enforce it later. You may not transfer these terms to someone else; Sling may transfer them to a successor.
15. Contact
Sling Flying Club, LLC dba Sling Pilot Academy
3401 Airport Dr, Torrance, CA 90505
Email: hub@slingpilotacademy.com
Phone: 424-484-7596