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Fleet & Crew Planner

A fleet plan usually stops at the aircraft list, and the headcount that follows it is a ceiling nobody derived. Crew do not scale with tails: a pilot is rated on one type, so each type is its own pool and rounds up on its own, and a single-tail type has no one to cover it. Enter the entry-into-service list and the operating concept; this works out aircraft-years, the pilots each type pool needs, and what a round-the-clock control room costs in people.

Step 1

The fleet, tail by tail

One row per aircraft. Give every tail of the same type exactly the same type name, since that is what makes a crew pool. Seats is the number of pilots the operation needs on the flight deck.

Step 2

The operating concept

These are illustrative planning inputs, not regulatory limits: the fatigue and duty-time regulations that apply to your operation govern, and should replace them.

First fiscal year

Coverage (% of days each tail is crewed)

100% is every tail ready every day. On-demand work with standby is high; scheduled contract work can be lower.

Rest days per pilot per year

Leave days

Training and check days

Sickness and other days

Pilots the plan provides, by year (optional, five numbers separated by commas)

Fixed-wing and rotary together. When given, each year is compared with what the pools require.

Step 3

The operations control centre

Positions staffed around the clock

A dispatcher and a duty manager is two.

Hours the centre is staffed per week

Contracted hours per person per week

Lost to leave, sickness and training (%)

Step 4

Is the revenue per tail plausible? (optional)

Flying revenue in the final year (USD m)

Revenue per block hour (USD), low

Middle

High

Sensitivity only. Replace the three with your own actual revenue per hour by type.

The fleet and its crew

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Add the aircraft.

Year by year

Findings

Have JK size the organisation to the operation.

An operating concept, rosters built to the duty and fatigue rules that apply, a postholder map that survives the Authority's acceptance, and a recruitment path worked back from the launch date.

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Arithmetic on the operating concept you enter, not a roster and not a regulatory determination. Pilots are required by type pool and exclude management, instructor and check pilots unless you count them as seats. Each tail is crewed in full from the year it enters service. Everything you enter stays in this browser.