Operations7 min read
Part 61 or Part 141 for a two-plane school
The lower hour minimum is the headline and almost never the deciding factor. The real question is whether your record-keeping can survive an audit.
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Writing on running a flight operation
Specific things we have had to work out properly while building Path to Sky: what a payment really costs, what a record has to contain, and where the usual advice is wrong. No listicles.
Money6 min read
What it actually costs to accept a $5,000 prepaid block
A school taking prepaid blocks on cards is paying a percentage with no ceiling. Here is the arithmetic, and what changes when the same money arrives by bank transfer.
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Scheduling, dispatch, maintenance, training records and payments for $10 per aircraft a month, with no cut of what you charge.
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