Airwork: Come Fly With Me

Tom Benenson

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 08:08 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The World Aero Club (WAC) is an online platform connecting pilots to share flights, aiming to reduce costs, enhance proficiency, and foster social interaction among aviators.
Its central feature is an automated flight dispatch system that matches pilots offering flights with those seeking rides, visualizing these opportunities on a Google map.
WAC also provides a suite of community features, including pilot profiles, flight reports, a member directory, an internal messaging system, and a marketplace for aviation-related items.

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(April 2011) REMEMBER THE RIDE BOARDS at school? Students with cars would post notices of where they were headed during school breaks and invite other students to ride along. At the same time students looking for rides would post their trip requests. The system, with the notices thumbtacked to a bulletin board, worked well, and that’s how Harry met Sally. But you did have to check the board frequently to ensure you didn’t miss a ride.

Substitute the bulletin board for the Internet and cars for airplanes and you have a basic idea of the World Aero Club (worldaeroclub.org), which bills itself as “the international aviators network.”