Pilot Sanchez · VFR tools

Preflight, planning, and debrief — in one place

Briefing, route planner, flight analysis, and My Hangar for pilots, flight schools, and clubs — built from real cross-country VFR in Spain, and proven on my own aircraft.

Aircraft types
Popular GA models + yours
POH-backed
W&B, fuel, performance
Cessna 172H PH-RPB

C172H · PH-RPB

Real flights, real numbers — the aircraft I fly

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. 1

    Briefing

    W&B, fuel, weather, performance PDF

  2. 2

    Planner

    VFR route, airspace, fuel stops

  3. 3

    Fly

    Your sortie — track from ForeFlight or similar

  4. 4

    Debrief

    Flight Analysis and My Hangar context

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.

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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.

PH-RPB in Rijkspolitie service, black and white archival photograph
Rijkspolitie — archival (B&W)
PH-RPB at a Rijkspolitie hangar in colour
Rijkspolitie hangar
PH-RPB in private ownership, colour photograph
Private ownership

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.

Or write to contact [at] pilotsanchez.com

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