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If you have been flying for any length of time, you have filled out more Pilot History Forms than you can count. New operators, new aircraft, insurance renewals, management changes. Every time, the same request: total time, PIC, turbine, multi, night, instrument, last 90 days, last 12 months. Most of
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One of the simplest truths in flight operations is that most stress comes from not seeing what’s coming far enough in advance. Emails get buried. Text threads get messy. Trip records live in different places. And before long, someone is asking, “Wait, do we already have coverage for that
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One of the realities of contract flying is that, long before a pilot ever steps onto an aircraft, there’s paperwork, payment, and tax structure sitting quietly in the background. If that foundation isn’t set up correctly, it creates friction for pilots, operators, and flight departments alike. Until now,
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One of the things we’ve always believed at Flying Company is that the best pilot networks already exist. They’re just informal. Text threads. Phone calls. “Hey, are you free next Tuesday?” conversations. Quiet referrals between people who trust each other. We decided to build that behavior directly into
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In flight operations, most friction comes from one simple problem: people having the right information, but not in the same place, at the same time. Pilots want to understand the mission before they commit to it. Operators want to know the crew fully understands the plan. Dispatchers end up relaying
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Every flight department, charter operator, and insurance broker asks the same question when a pilot is proposed for a trip: “Are they qualified to fly this aircraft?” The answer to that question has traditionally lived in scattered documents. PDFs emailed back and forth. Old spreadsheets. Training certificates. Insurance questionnaires filled
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A New Step Forward in Safety & Professionalism At Flying Company, we’ve spent the past few months steadily raising the standards of safety and professionalism across the staffing process. What began with Professionalism by Design, which gave operators a clear way to identify whether pilots were operating as independent
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In business aviation, safety systems often depend on one thing: whether information can flow freely from the cockpit to the people responsible for managing risk. Too often, that flow breaks down. A stark reminder of this challenge appears in the NTSB’s final report on the 2014 Gulfstream IV accident
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Across business aviation, operators often rely on flexible staffing models by utilizing independent contract pilots. These contingent relationships allow flight departments to meet mission demands efficiently, but they also introduce important considerations for how those relationships are structured and represented. That’s why we’re excited to introduce an update