Pilot Sanchez · VFR tools
Preflight, planning, and debrief — in one place
Prepare with POH numbers, plan your route, and close with debriefing. The same workflow for pilots, students, and clubs — built from real VFR cross-country flying.
C172H · PH-RPB
Real flights, real numbers — the aircraft I fly
- Aircraft types
- Popular GA models + yours
- POH-backed
- W&B, fuel, performance
- Tested in flight
- VFR cross-countries across Spain
The workflow
One continuous line of work
The same path from briefing to debrief works for a solo trip, a lesson, or a club ship. When a school or club uses My Hangar, members see the right aircraft profiles — still about flying well, not about dispatch queues or maintenance paperwork.
- 1
Briefing
W&B, fuel, weather, performance PDF
- 2
Planner
VFR route, airspace, fuel stops
- 3
Fly
Your sortie — track from ForeFlight or similar
- 4
Debrief
Flight Analysis and My Hangar context
From the blog
Latest articles
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EASA's Annual Safety Review 2026: What the Numbers Say About General Aviation
27 Oct 2026
EASA's Annual Safety Review 2026 counts 21 fatal light-aeroplane accidents in 2025, below the 10-year average. What the figures show and what still kills.
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The VFR Preflight Briefing: A Practical Checklist for Every Flight
27 Oct 2026
What EASA and FAA rules require before a VFR flight, and a practical preflight checklist: pilot, aircraft, weather, NOTAMs, aerodromes, fuel and a plan B.
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VFR Fuel Planning and Reserves: How Much Fuel Is Really Enough?
22 Oct 2026
How much fuel a VFR flight needs: EASA and FAA final reserve rules, a step-by-step fuel plan, MINIMUM FUEL and MAYDAY FUEL calls, and in-flight checks.
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Who it is for
Pilots, students, schools, and clubs
Private pilots
Open briefing and planner with your registered tail or a generic POH profile. Upload a track after the flight for a structured debrief.
Students
Same tools with consistent numbers from the POH — built to support learning, not replace working from the book and understanding where each figure comes from.
Flight schools & clubs
Organisation context for fleet profiles and members — focused on shared briefing and debrief quality, not scheduling, CRM, or airworthiness tracking.
Platform
Products on Pilot Sanchez
Dozens of popular single- and twin-engine types are already integrated from POH data, with more added regularly. Registered airframes can use school or owner-specific empty weight and fuel settings. Any aircraft can be supported when its POH performance and W&B data are available — get in touch if you need a type that is not listed yet.
Briefing
Weight and balance, trip fuel, take-off and landing performance, METAR/TAF, GO/NO-GO, and PDF output for your selected aircraft.
Open briefing →Planner
VFR route planning with fuel stops, airspace awareness, and performance-aware legs on an interactive map.
Open planner →Flight analysis
Upload GPS tracks (ForeFlight KML and other formats), review segments and bands, and read rule-based and AI-assisted debrief notes.
Open flight analysis →My Hangar
Sign in for your aircraft grid, profiles, fuel and oil log, and — for schools and clubs — org context and members.
Open my hangar →Tools
ICAO route syntax, wind correction, climb and descent helpers, fuel endurance, GPX overlay video, and other preflight utilities.
Open tools →Flights map
ADS-B live map — follow traffic and highlight your aircraft when it is transmitting.
Open flights map →
The flying behind the tools
C172H, Iberian skies, serious hobby
Antonio Sánchez — private pilot, based in Granada. Most flying is practical VFR across Spain: navigation practice, hour building, and trips worth briefing properly. PH-RPB, the Cessna 172H I fly, is the reference airframe these tools were exercised on first.
Trained as a software engineer, I have delivered IT products over the years — from enterprise systems to blockchain and fintech platforms, and I worked at McKinsey & Company analysing Big Data for client teams. More recently I have been steering my career toward aviation — Pilot Sanchez is where that habit of testing numbers against reality meets the cross-country flying I do in Spain.
PH-RPB — a little history
Built in 1968 at Reims, France, this airframe was originally delivered to the Rijkspolitie in the Netherlands. After its service there, it passed through several private owners until I bought it in 2025. Since then it has undergone a full refurbishment of structure, controls, electrics, and instrumentation.
Power comes from a Continental O-300-D — a six-cylinder, 145 HP engine built under license by Rolls-Royce in the United Kingdom.
Avionics & panel
- 2 × Garmin GNC 215
- Garmin GMA 345 audio panel with Bluetooth
- JPI EDM 730 digital engine monitor
- AV30C directional gyro with HSI
- AV30C attitude indicator
- Garmin 175 GPS/WAAS — coming soon
Shared flights
Fly along — cost-sharing
I regularly fly two- to three-hour VFR trips from Granada across Spain, for cross-country experience and hour building. Under EASA cost-sharing rules (Part-NCO), occupants may share the direct operating costs of a specific flight — fuel, landing fees, and similar expenses — on a voluntary basis. This is not commercial carriage: I hold a private pilot license and do not profit from these flights.
If you would like to come along, you join a real cross-country sortie — the same kind of flight I fly for my own time building, not a staged joyride. That means proper planning and briefing, hands-on involvement where appropriate, and several hours getting a close look at how VFR navigation works in practice — often including a landing at another airfield, depending on the trip.
Contact
Schools, clubs, feedback, or flying along
Questions about the tools, adding an aircraft type from a POH, school or club access, cost-sharing, or anything aviation-related — send a message and I will get back to you when I can.
