Aircraft management and advisory

Independent, instructor's-eye advice for people who own or operate a Cirrus. I am not a broker and I do not sell airplanes; the advice is the product.

Buying an airplane

Pre-purchase advice has its own page: Buying a Cirrus. Flat fee, independent of what you buy or whether you train with me afterward.

Operating and maintenance

Annual and recurring maintenance planning, parts and avionics upgrade decisions, hangar and insurance strategy, and setting up the owner's side of a maintenance relationship so that surprises are rare.

Partnerships, clubs and lease-backs

Structuring a two- or three-way partnership, evaluating a club, and the honest trade-offs of putting an airplane on a Part 135 certificate or a flight-school line. I have been on several sides of these arrangements.

Managed flying

For owners who want the airplane flown, positioned, or kept current without doing all of it themselves: scheduled recurrent flying, ferry and repositioning, and oversight of maintenance visits. Scoped case by case.