Adventure Flights: Simple, Efficient Daily Operations at Middenmeer
A Dutch flight school with three decades of training experience runs its daily operations on Aviatize — simple and efficient, for instructors and students alike.
Amid the farmland of the Wieringermeer polder in North Holland lies Middenmeer Airfield (EHMM) — a lively grass strip that is home to a flying club, a brasserie, and one of the region's best-known flight schools: Adventure Flights.
Founded in 1995, Adventure Flights has introduced hundreds of aspiring pilots to the sky. The school offers complete flight training — from a first introduction lesson to the microlight (MLA) licence and on to the LAPL and PPL — with ground school taught in the classroom of the airfield's own clubhouse.
The airfield around it has grown into a genuine aviation community. Since Middenmeer received its permanent licence in 2015, the field has professionalised rapidly and now hosts the flight school, Brasserie Wings, and Vliegclub Middenmeer with roughly 200 flying members.
A Modern Fleet for Modern Training
Adventure Flights flies some of the most modern light aircraft in the Netherlands. Its TL-Ultralight TL3000 Sirius microlights — carbon-and-composite aircraft built for the European 600 kg MLA class — carry dual Garmin G3X Touch flight displays and a whole-airframe ballistic recovery parachute. For LAPL and PPL training, the school operates two BRM Aero Bristell B23s in the CS-LSA class, equipped with autopilot and constant-speed propellers.
A fleet like that deserves an operation to match: smart scheduling that keeps five aircraft and thirteen instructors productive, training records that follow every student from first lesson to checkride, and administration that doesn't eat into flying time.
“Scheduling, tracking, inventory management, and administrative tasks are well integrated, saving a lot of time.”
Running the School on Aviatize
Adventure Flights has run its operation on Aviatize for over two years, using the platform every day for scheduling, training administration, and much more.
“Aviatize is an intuitive and user-friendly platform that makes the daily management of a flight school much more efficient. Scheduling, tracking, inventory management, and administrative tasks are well integrated, saving a lot of time,” wrote flight instructor Menno De Haan in the school's five-star review of the platform.
The support experience earns the same praise. “The support team is responsive, listens to feedback, and continuously improves the platform with useful new features.”
From Open API to the Clubhouse Wall
Walk into the clubhouse at Middenmeer and the day's operation is on the wall: a 65-inch screen, driven by a Raspberry Pi running in kiosk mode, that boots straight into a live flight board built on the Aviatize open API.
The board pulls the day's schedule directly from the Aviatize API, refreshing every minute to reflect the real status of each flight — from booked to checked in — and the type of flight being flown. Airborne aircraft appear alongside it with live ADS-B altitude, speed, and heading on a moving map, cross-referenced against the nearest town. The logic even handles the edge cases: if an ADS-B signal fades away from base, the board looks for a nearby airfield where the aircraft may have landed; when it fades close to home, the flight is marked as landed at Middenmeer. An integration with the local weather station rounds it off with the current METAR — and a warning whenever the TAF forecasts gusts.
The board is the spare-time work of Richard Groen: pilot, and product director at Schiphol Airport, where he is responsible for Deep Turnaround, an AI platform for monitoring aircraft turnaround activities that runs at airports from Vancouver to Milan to Brisbane. He built the clubhouse board for the love of aviation — and because, as a pilot, he knows that “the better you are informed, the safer it is.”
It is exactly what the open API is for: the schedule that instructors and students already maintain in Aviatize becomes a real-time display for the whole airfield — no double entry, no extra admin.
A Smooth Learning Experience for Students
For a school whose mission is making flying accessible, the student experience matters as much as the back office. Here too, Aviatize pulls its weight.
“Our overall experience has been excellent. Aviatize is easy to use for both instructors and students, making daily operations simple and efficient. The platform offers a smooth learning experience for students by giving them clear insight into their training progress, planning, and documentation,” said De Haan.
“Regular updates and new features show that the development team is committed to continuous improvement and to meeting the needs of flight schools. We highly recommend Aviatize to any aviation training organization looking for a reliable and modern management system.”
It is the same story told by schools and clubs across the Netherlands, from Vliegschool Hilversum to Vliegclub Seppe: less time on administration, more time in the air.
Support That Listens
A responsive support team that takes feedback seriously and keeps improving the platform with useful new features.
Time Saved on Administration
Scheduling, tracking, inventory management, and administrative tasks are well integrated on one platform.
Clear Student Progress
Students get clear insight into their training progress, planning, and documentation.
Daily Use for Over Two Years
Aviatize has been the school's daily operating platform for more than two years — for instructors and students alike.
“We highly recommend Aviatize to any aviation training organization looking for a reliable and modern management system.”
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