Scheduling, fuel, maintenance, insurance, and the LOAs a turbine actually needs. The work is ordinary. Ordinary is the point.
01 — Purpose · Part 91
Practical guidance for US-based Part 91 owners and small flight departments.
Domestic ops, international trips, and the setup work in between. How-to guides, lessons learned, free checklists, and a short list of vendors we actually recommend.
Flight department setup — choose the airplane, track what’s done, and request a vendor introduction only when you want one.
The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul.
Walter Raleigh
| Domestic | A checklist in the airplane, insurance in force, a fuel card that works at home. |
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| International | The domestic list, plus ocean paperwork and a procedures manual the crew has actually opened. |
| Setup | One path chosen. Progress kept. A vendor introduction only when you ask. |
Noise paperwork, a journey log, an oceanic checklist, and the North Atlantic call you do not want to invent on HF the first time.
Standing the department up: accounts, manuals, and a short list of vendors. That is the Easy Button.
02 — Kneeboard
Free
checklists
From the airplane, not a template mill.
Practical checklists, templates, and operational guides from real Part 91 experience. Turboprop through heavy international. Take the one that matches the mission and put it to work.
Turboprop Domestic
Accounts, insurance, fuel, and the logs to settle while the operation is still one pilot and the trips stay in the United States.
Light jet North America
MEL and RVSM choices, a maintenance tracker, and the Teterboro noise registration if that airport is actually on the trip sheet.
Heavy jet International
The oceanic LOAs, the cockpit paperwork, and the manuals. Same bones as the short lists, with the Atlantic written in.
On the clipboard
Operational documents
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Noise certificate
A worksheet to summarize the aircraft’s noise certification for an international trip. Based on the idea in FAA AC 91-86 — your numbers, your signature.
Journey log
A plain log for international legs. Particulars of the journey, ready if a ramp inspection asks for them.
Discrepancy log
Squawks and deferred items, written down. Memory is not a maintenance program.
NAT comm log
A position-report script and a log for VHF and HF over the North Atlantic. Useful the first time the ocean is quiet and the radio is not.
Oceanic checklist
Paper reminder for a North Atlantic crossing. Confirm every line against NAT Doc 007, your AFM, and your LOAs before you fly it.
Oceanic, in ForeFlight
The same reminder, arranged so you can type it into ForeFlight’s checklist tab and tap through it in the airplane.
When a list is in the airplane, the next decision is who you actually call.
Explore providers03 — Short list
Recommended
providers
Five names. Not a marketplace.
A short, focused list for flight planning, insurance, maintenance tracking, international procedures, and fuel programs. The ones we would start with if the department were a blank sheet. Simple enough to work together.
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01 Flight planning
ForeFlight
Briefings, charts, and the oceanic packet in the app the crew already opens. Start here for domestic trips. Add Dispatch when the leg crosses the Atlantic or a shared navlog is worth more than a text message. JetFuelX, inside the same house, will compare contract prices once a fuel account exists.
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02 Insurance
Wings Insurance
Hull and liability have to be in force on the day you close, not the week after. Wings is the broker we point owners to — a first policy or a second opinion. The market moves. Talk to someone who only does airplanes.
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03 Maintenance tracking
CAMP
When someone besides the pilot is watching inspections, due items, and discrepancies, a standalone tracker earns the subscription. CAMP is the name most jet departments already know. Traxxall and Veryon do the same job. Pick one and put every due item in it. A turboprop with one pilot can live on a discrepancy log until that stops being true.
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04 International procedures
Nimbl
LOA manuals, RVSM, and an SMS that is a living description of how you actually fly — not a binder that yellows. Nimbl (formerly AviationManuals) is on the FAA’s streamlined-LOA procedure list, and it is the shop we send people to when the operation leaves domestic airspace. Handling is the other half: one trip-support desk is enough to start. Universal, UAS, Jeppesen, or ARINC.
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05 Fuel programs
Avfuel
Contract fuel is how you stop buying Jet-A at the retail price on the board. Open Avfuel if your usual fields are on the network. When the map gets bigger, layer World Kinect — the other large network — instead of signing up for all sixteen programs and calling it a system. Start with the airports you already use.
Curated by Robbie Moon. Some of these vendors may pay a commission. Most do not. There is no extra cost either way. Nothing is shared with a vendor unless you request the introduction. Only names we would use.
The list is short on purpose. Put it against your airplane next.
Start Easy Button04 — Departure setup
Flight
department
setup
The Easy Button.
Set up the pieces of the flight department. Connect with vendors. Track your progress. Tell it which path fits — turboprop, light jet, or heavy jet. The usual items for that airplane come up already on the list.
The tail and your name stay in this browser with the checklist. Nothing is sent.
Pick the path that matches the airplane and the mission, not the one that sounds impressive. You can change it. The other lists stay where you left them.
Choose turboprop, light jet, or heavy jet. The usual list for that airplane opens on this kneeboard.