Pilot Sanchez · VFR tools
Briefing, planning, and debriefing — 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 debriefing 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.
- 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
App available for iOS and Android
Install the Pilot Sanchez app for My Hangar, Briefing shortcuts, and flight tracking on your phone.
From the blog
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Gibraltar Airport: The Runway, the Rock and What Visiting Pilots Should Know
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How the runway was built, why the road no longer crosses it, what the Rock does to the wind, and the PPR, documents and border checks a visiting private pilot needs.
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Digital Towers Arrive in the US: What Camera-Based Air Traffic Control Means for VFR Pilots
11 Nov 2026
Controllers at two US airports now work from screens instead of windows. A look at the FAA programme, Europe's decade of remote towers, the Vigo trial and the AIP details VFR pilots should check.
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Lycoming Piston Pin AD Expanded to the O-320: What Cessna 152 and 172 Pilots Should Know
10 Nov 2026
The FAA has widened its Lycoming piston pin AD to many O-320 models and kept the O-235. What owners, renters and students should check before 24 November.
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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 structured debriefing in Flight Analysis.
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.
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.
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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
Shared flights
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.
