Pilot Tools · Aircraft Transition
Plan the transition before the first flight.
Answer three questions about the change you are making. You get a briefing plan with a document comparison, questions for your instructor, and a debrief sequence — never numbers invented here.
Planning and briefing support. It never authorizes operation, constitutes a checkout, or establishes insurance eligibility, and it never replaces the exact POH/AFM, operator requirements, or qualified instruction.
Question 1 of 3
What kind of change is this?
Choose the closest description. Nothing here authorizes or endorses an operation.
What this is, and what it is not
- Who it is for
- A certificated pilot moving to an unfamiliar airplane, engine, gear configuration or avionics suite.
- What you finish with
- Produce a written briefing plan for your checkout: which AFM/POH sections to compare, what to ask your instructor, and what to debrief afterwards.
- Included today
- Three-question planner that builds the plan in the browser
- A document-comparison list keyed to the change you are making
- Instructor questions and a post-flight debrief sequence you can print
- Try it first
- Answer the three questions and read a real generated plan before you commit to anything.
- Primary sources
- Version
- transition-planner-v1.0 · last reviewed 2026-08-31
- Who reviewed it
- The planning structure is written in-house against §61.31 and FAA guidance. It contains no aircraft performance numbers, because those belong only to your AFM/POH.
- Limits
- Never authorizes operation and is not a checkout, endorsement or insurance qualification.
- Contains no speeds, weights or limitations — read them from the AFM/POH for your serial number.
- Found an error?
- Tell us and we will correct it or say why we disagree: fly@pilotmethodaviation.com