Rules and regulations

As a prospective member, you’ll get access to the club’s full document store. This includes SOPs, bylaws, membership agreements, and aircraft logbooks. This article is meant to be a high-level summary of the key points. We are catering to experienced pilots who understand the basic economic uncertainty of aircraft ownership, and want to eliminate those risks without downgrading their flying experience.

The insurance minimums for membership are as follows: For the Cardinal, you need 500 total hours, 50 hours in retractable-gear aircraft, and 10 hours in the insured make and model. New members who meet the hourly requirements but not the time-in-type will be required to complete the minimum requirements and receive signoff from the club’s chief pilot before membership can be changed from provisional to confirmed. You will be required to reimburse the CFI for instruction hours via a private agreement between you and the CFI.

For the Bonanza, you need 1000 total hours, but otherwise the rest of the requirements are the same.

Cardinal usage will be billed on the Hobbs meter in the panel, which is keyed to engine-running conditions rather than just master power. Bonanza usage will be as reported by the Engine Hours counter in the G3X panel.

Members will be expected to furnish the club with all FAA-required documentation to validate your credentials and experience, and no membership is considered final until our insurance company accepts the pilot information form submitted as part of the membership application.

We use Flightcircle to handle all our aircraft scheduling, dispatch, squawks, and maintenance. If you already have a Flightcircle account from another aircraft operation, please let us know which one it is so we can avoid creating duplicate accounts. Members must record the Hobbs (or equivalent) time for every dispatch.

We keep aircraft keys in a smart safe, and each member will have their own code to access it. We have a smart lock on the main office door, and each member will be given a unique code for that as well. The member making use of the aircraft must use their code to open the door or the safe, and we expect the safe to be closed with that same code when the keys are returned later. While the keys are checked out against your code, you are the sole responsible individual, no matter who else (member or not) may be in the aircraft with you or moving things around in the hangar.

We keep paper logs in an additional secured space at the club offices. These are available for review by members at any time, but are not generally accessible. We do keep AROW documents available to travel with the airplane in dedicated binders. They should be returned to the office along with the keys when your flights are completed.

We maintain our aircraft on 100-hour-inspection intervals and treat those as equivalent to full annual inspections. We record compliance with all relevant ADs at each 100-hour inspection, or more frequently if the AD stipulates a shorter interval. We ground the aircraft for any airworthiness risks pending inspection by the club’s preferred maintenance shop, Skyworld Aviation at KHWY. In the event a club aircraft encounters a maintenance requirement at a remote location, the member must seek approval from club officers before initiating any inspection or repair work with another maintenance facility or A&P mechanic. Expenses incurred without securing such a pre-approval are subject to non-reimbursement at the club’s sole discretion.