Founding Members

The first pilots to finish the programme become Founding Members.

Founding Member is a standing, earned once and kept for good. Finish the onboarding programme while places remain and it is attached to your account permanently. It does not make you a Pro subscriber. It does get you the founding rate if you become one.

Create your account

Counting the founding places remaining

Free to start. Subscribing to Pro, and the founding rate that comes with it, is a later step inside the app.

What you need to do

Create a free account and the Getting Started checklist is waiting on your home page. That checklist is the whole programme. There is nothing else to sign up for.

Import your logbookAdd a flightUnderstand your totalsTrack what you actually flySee where you're up toKeep a noteStore a document
Set your flight defaults
The checklist as it looks on your home page. Pick a row to jump to it below. Set your flight defaults arrives ticked. You chose your country and home airport during onboarding, before the checklist appears.

When you finish

Pilotlab claims a place for you automatically, if one is still open. You get a notification and a welcome email with your Founding Member number. To see how far through you are, open Settings and find Founding Member on the Profile tab.

  1. Import your logbook

    If you already keep a logbook, bring it across. Upload a CSV or Excel export, or photograph the paper pages. Pilotlab shows you what it read and saves nothing until you have checked it.

    Ticks when you commit an import.

  2. Add a flight

    No logbook to bring? Add one flight by hand. Start a draft, fill in what you know, and come back to the rest later.

    Ticks when a flight is in your logbook, and a draft is enough. Importing ticks this row too, and adding a flight ticks the import row.

  3. Understand your totals

    Open your logbook and see how your hours are added up from the flights you entered, under the rules of the authority you fly with.

    Ticks when you have been through it.

  4. Optional

    Track what you actually fly

    Some flying needs columns a standard logbook lacks. Add your own fields for sling, spray, top-dressing or VTA time in Settings.

    Optional. It does not affect your place.

  5. Optional

    See where you're up to

    This row appears if you chose a training syllabus when you set up. Tick off the exercises you have already flown, so your progress begins in the right place.

    Optional. It does not affect your place.

  6. Keep a note

    Write one note in Notes. A briefing, a debrief, or something from a flight you want to remember.

    Ticks when you have written one note.

  7. Store a document

    Add one file to Documents, such as a copy of your licence or medical, or a reference you want to hand.

    Ticks when you have stored one file.

What a Founding Member gets

The badge, the early access and the line to the team come with the standing and cost nothing. The founding rate is different. It is a price on Pro, so it applies once you subscribe.

With the standingThe founding badge
A gold badge on your profile, marking you as one of the first pilots on Pilotlab. It never expires.
Your nameFoundingShown beside your name in Pilotlab.
Ends: Never
With the standingEarly access
Some features reach the workspaces you own before they go on general sale, while we are still shaping them.
Ends: When a feature goes on general sale
With the standingA line to the people building it
Short questions inside the programme, and direct ways to reach the team. A person reads every answer.
Ends: Never
When you subscribe to ProThe founding rate on Pro
Subscribe to Pro and your price stays fixed for as long as you stay subscribed, however far the list price rises afterwards.
Ends: On cancellation

Founding Member and Pro

No. A Founding Member is not a Pro subscriber, and earning the standing does not turn Pro on. Everything in Pro still needs a subscription, for a Founding Member as for any other pilot. What the standing gives you is the founding rate when you take one.

See what Pro includes

Create your account

Counting the founding places remaining

Free to start. Subscribing to Pro, and the founding rate that comes with it, is a later step inside the app.