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Aircraft Management

Making your aircraft a safe and efficient business tool...

The Total Team

The goal of Kansas Air Center’s Aircraft Management Program is to provide safe, convenient, efficient air transportation to help business organizations achieve their missions. A corporate aircraft is a valuable business tool and company asset, and the executives who travel on it are

indispensable. As an integral part of an effective overall business plan, Kansas Air Center provides more than pilots for hire. Kansas Air Center is committed to ensuring the safety of your personnel with its total team approach—one that includes everything from scheduling to overseeing maintenance to piloting.

Flight Operations

Professional pilots must maintain a level of proficiency that ensures their ability to operate aircraft in both normal and emergency situations. At Kansas Air Center, no pilot’s proficiency level is subject to compromise. No pilot may act as pilot-in-command of a Kansas Air Center charter flight unless they meet a recognized minimum standard of in-flight hours.

This no-compromise policy ensures that every firm using Kansas Air Center’s Aircraft Management Program has only the best pilots available.

Kansas Air Center pilots regularly undergo recurrent training in the Wichita facility of FlightSafety, Inc. This pilot training center is one of the finest in the world. Your company’s cost for this training is more than offset by peace of mind for you, your passengers, and the aircraft. Recurrent training at FlightSafety is dedicated to honing a pilot’s skill in a specific aircraft, enhancing the pilot’s skills in managing the specific flight management controls of that aircraft series.

In-house training is also a constant at Kansas Air Center. Every Kansas Air Center pilot remains on top of the ever-changing federal regulations and procedures, and every pilot maintains accurate records and an awareness of all aircraft-specific information updates. The FAA gives the enormous responsibility of passenger and aircraft safety to the pilot-in-command, responsibility which requires significant demands on each pilot’s time. Training and record keeping can consume nearly 20 percent of a pilot’s work, before that pilot even steps into the cockpit.

Kansas Air Center is elite among aircraft management firms. Ron Nordt, president, holds an FAA designated check airmen certificate. Ron has met or exceeds all regulatory requirements, enabling him to administer FAArequired recurrency check flights to all in-house pilots. Maintaining the highest quality of pilot skills is a Kansas Air Center priority.

Pilot & Aircraft

Maintaining Kansas Air Center’s total team of highly skilled pilots and well-trained ground personnel is essential. Also critical is propercorporate aircraft maintenance, which requires a high level of sophistication. Kansas Air Center’s Aircraft Management Program assures clients that travel needs will not be compromised. Kansas Air Center has a team of seasoned pilots available to fly corporate passengers to their destinations, even on short notice.

Keeping aircraft flight-ready also is a top priority at Kansas Air Center. All aircraft are complicated equipment that must be managed to meet strict

government regulations. Both routine and unscheduled aircraft maintenance is closely monitored at Kansas Air Center to make certain that aircraft can be dispatched when needed. Kansas Air Center’s own fleet backs up corporate-owned primary aircraft, affording clients the assurance that every business trip can be completed.

Outline Proposal

The following proposal overview is typical of an arrangement for aircraft management with Kansas Air Center for a cabin-class piston engined airplane. By working with Kansas Air Center in honing this outline for services a company can realize the full potential and value of their corporate aircraft investment, making the most with the best tools available.

Proposal Outline

Kansas Air Center will professionally manage your corporate aircraft, and provide eight days of on-demand pilot services for a monthly fee. In doing so, Kansas Air Center guarantees pilot availability, with 24-hour notice. Further, Kansas Air Center will prepare your aircraft for flight, perform administrative functions necessary to maintain the aircraft’s airworthiness, schedule the corporate aircraft, and provide other scheduling tasks to ensure that planned flight schedules be maintained.
Provide pilots who meet or exceed recognized aviation industry minimum standards. Kansas Air Center will also ensure that pilots maintain a current medical certificate and IFR currency. Each pilot will be current on applicable FAA rules and regulations, in addition to being up-to-date on information specific to your aircraft. More extensive information regarding Kansas Air Center’s minimum standards is available upon request.
Manage your corporate aircraft in a manner that maintains the highest dispatch rate possible, as well as ensuring a clean aircraft, inside and out. And, perhaps most importantly, Kansas Air Center’s entire staff will consider themselves to be integral members of your contract flight department.

A firm will:

Maintain insurance on any and all corporate aircraft and list Kansas Air Center as an additional insured.
Underwrite initial and recurrent pilot training Kansas Air Center deems necessary to ensure overall passenger and aircraft safety. Such training will be provided by FlightSafety, Inc. or SimCom. Should you purchase new aircraft or change its existing holdings during the contract period, an additional fee for transition training will be negotiated.
Overnight expenses are billed per night per pilot, which includes all expenses, (lodging, meals, transportation, etc.) Please note that cancellations with less than 24-hours notice will be counted against the monthly eight-day minimum. For flights beyond monthly minimums, consult the Professional Pilot Services Fee Sheet. Pilot services are then subject to pilot availability. FAA requirements mandate the number of hours any pilot may fly in a given day, and Kansas Air Center days run from midnight to midnight. These regulations state that a pilot’s duty day will not include more than 14 hours of duty time. In addition, 10 hours of rest time must be scheduled for Kansas Air Center pilots between scheduled flights in any 24-hour period. When a flight begins on one day and ends on another, two days of the eight-day monthly minimum will thereby have been consumed.

Other opportunities
You have the option of working with other business aircraft owners to split minimum monthly charges. Such negotiations will involve working agreements between business owners to determine when each business would use which of the eight allocated days. Additionally, because two aircraft (cabin class reciprocating engines) would need to be maintained under such agreements, an additional expense will be added to the monthly fee, as would recurrency pilot training costs on additional aircraft. For those who wish to clean, manage and maintain the airworthiness of their own aircraft, please call us for pricing information.