Pilot-Owner Accelerator

Own and Operate Your Aircraft Without Stress or Costly Mistakes

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Why Most (First-Time) Aircraft Owners Struggle

Owning an aircraft should be exciting — but for most new pilots and (first-time) owners, it quickly becomes stressful, confusing, and expensive. Without the right guidance, it’s easy to:

  • Get lost in conflicting advice and technical complexity
  • Overpay for the wrong aircraft, unnecessary maintenance, or inefficient operation
  • Spend more time managing problems than enjoying flying

Many start out with the best intentions — but end up second-guessing every decision, worrying about safety, and wondering if they’ve made a costly mistake.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

From Overwhelmed to In Control — Faster Than You Think

Imagine buying your first aircraft with total confidence — knowing it’s the right fit for your needs, costs are under control, and every decision is backed by expert guidance.

From your first decision to your first solo trip as an owner in command, we remove the guesswork and give you a clear, step-by-step path:

  • Clarity & Direction – A proven roadmap from “thinking about it” to confidently flying your own aircraft.
  • Expert Management – We handle airworthiness and maintenance oversight so you stay in control without being buried in admin.
  • Aligned Advocacy – As your independent partner, we protect your interests in every decision — from aircraft selection to ongoing operations.

With us in your corner, you can skip the trial-and-error, avoid costly mistakes, and focus on what really matters — flying with confidence and enjoying the freedom that inspired you to own an aircraft in the first place.

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What the Accelerator Is Like

Personal Trainer
Like a trainer at the gym, we give you a proven plan, keep you accountable, and help you avoid costly mistakes — so you reach your goals faster and safer.
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Business Consultant
Like a consultant, we protect your interests, save you time, and help you make smart, evidence-based decisions that pay off for years.
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Golf Coach
Like a coach, we refine your technique, fix bad habits early, and accelerate your progress — so flying becomes smoother, safer, and more enjoyable.
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Financial Advisor
Like an advisor, we align with your interests, not someone else’s sales commission — helping you grow value and avoid risks.
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Trusted by Pilots Who Know What’s at Stake

“Quest Aeronautics fills a critical gap in general aviation. Their graduate-level training and evidence-based guidance empower pilot-owners like no one else in the industry.”
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Shawn Matthews
Experimental Test Pilot, Former RAAF Squadron Leader & Mooney M20J Owner
What a Test Pilot Says About Us
What a Test Pilot Says About Us

Your Path to Confident Aircraft Ownership

A simple, step-by-step process to take you from uncertainty to confident, cost-effective ownership — with ongoing support once you get there.

You Are Here

Step 1 — Book Your Session

📅 Schedule your free Professional Strategy Session — no payment, no commitment.

Step 2 — Professional Strategy Session

💬 We clarify your goals, assess your needs, and determine if we’re the right fit.

Step 3 — Start Your Programme

🔥 Begin your tailored Pilot-Owner Accelerator journey with a clear roadmap.

Step 4 — Learn & Implement

💡 Gain skills, apply proven strategies, and enjoy stress-free ownership.

Step 5 — Owner in Command

👤 Operate with competence and confidence — knowing you’re in control, with us as your trusted partner.

Bonus — Alumni Support Programme

🎖 Ongoing airworthiness management, personalised engine monitoring, reminders, dispute mediation, and advanced training to keep you ahead in your aviation journey.

Owner in Command

🚀 Start Your Journey to Confident Aircraft Ownership Today

A free, no-obligation call to see if the Pilot-Owner Accelerator is right for you.

Whether you’re just starting your journey or already own your first aircraft, the fastest way to avoid costly mistakes and start flying with confidence is to talk to us. During your Professional Strategy Session, we’ll:

  • Clarify your goals and mission
  • Identify potential risks and opportunities
  • Map out your next steps toward confident ownership

No sales pitch. No pressure. Just clear, expert advice to help you move forward.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Some clients come to us with a licence, others are just starting out. We’ll guide you based on where you are today.

Not at all. Many start with us before purchasing. We’ll help you define your mission, evaluate suitable aircraft, and make sure your first purchase is the right one.

Yes. Many owners join us to gain clarity, reduce costs, and operate with more confidence.

Typically 1–6 months, depending on your goals and pace. After that, you can continue with our exclusive Alumni Support Programme for ongoing guidance.

No. We are not a flight school. We provide expert guidance and support for ownership and operation. If you need flight training, we’ll connect you with trusted providers.

No. We remain fully independent to give you unbiased guidance. We coordinate with trusted partners on your behalf, while you stay in control.

You’ll be invited into our Alumni Support Programme — your long-term safety net for ongoing management, monitoring, and expert advice.

No. We’re completely independent, so our only agenda is your success.

The Best Time to Start is Before You Make a Costly Mistake

Your first aircraft should bring freedom, not frustration. Let’s make sure you get it right from the very beginning.

What’s Included in the Accelerator:

  • Clear Roadmap — from your first decision to confident ownership.
  • Expert Oversight — we manage airworthiness & maintenance while you stay in control.
  • Independent Guidance — unbiased advice to help you avoid costly mistakes.
  • Operational Excellence — strategies for safe, efficient, and confident flying.
  • Ongoing Support — free Alumni Support Programme when you complete the Accelerator.

No cost. No obligation. Just clear, expert advice tailored to your goals.

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We’re dedicated to supporting your journey in aviation. Whether you’re curious about the Pilot-Owner Accelerator, need more information about our training programme, or have specific questions, we’re here to help. Our team is ready to assist you in finding the right resources and opportunities to elevate your aviation experience.

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What a Test Pilot & Mooney M20J Owner Says About Us

As a military pilot, it is normal that in the years following graduation from basic flying training (“Wings”) courses, and even after initial conversion onto your first operational type, you will still be diving into the books and working hard to progress to an operational combat status. You will be mentored, challenged, and assessed by more experienced operational crews, flight commanders, and squadron executives. Continual learning and development is normalised—a continuous process of assimilating an almost insurmountable amount of information across different areas such as systems knowledge, operational procedures, and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). While the motivation and effort are your own, you are supported by a large organisation with decades of experience, knowledge, and lessons learned that are captured, collated, and made explicitly available to you.

Even after transitioning to experimental and certification test flying in the civilian sector, often with general aviation aircraft, the experience and culture of my prior large organisation and professional aviation foundations have supported me. These foundations of continual learning, seeking to understand and perhaps challenge existing knowledge and procedures, and seeking evidence-based facts to understand and justify operational procedures, have greatly aided me in successfully developing a small independent “third party” flight test department within an EASA Design Organisation. It also greatly assisted me as the recent proud owner of a Mooney M20J.

With this background, it has been interesting to observe the contrast with general aviation, which I have pursued recreationally alongside my professional aviation career. I would still consider myself an amateur in many regards when it comes to the operation of small GA aircraft and their legacy Continental and Lycoming powerplants. I have experienced first-hand some of the confusion and pitfalls of this less structured environment. It has been welcome and refreshing to see the development of communities around organisations such as Quest Aeronautics, which are collating and disseminating evidence-based knowledge and experience into the general aviation world, providing some “post-graduate” support to recreational pilots, particularly owner pilots.

The general aviation world lacks reliable information for various reasons. Some information is retained behind the manufacturer’s intellectual property protection. General aviation tends to operate small fleets in localised environments, limiting the ability to collate and disseminate data and information. In the small airfield school or club setting, there is often a large hierarchical gap, populated with the “CFI” and perhaps older retired professional pilots on the one hand, and very junior student pilots or low-time occasional flyers on the other. There is not often a group of “near-peer” pilots in the middle to easily and openly share experiences and debate options or consider better ways to do things. It is easy to see how the younger cadre are reluctant to challenge mainstream, conventional “wisdom,” and perhaps the older group rely on old knowledge and become dogmatic.

It is particularly isolating to be a pilot-owner, where even interactions in a school or club environment are not available. There are no organisations directly aligned with the pilot-owner. Manufacturers and maintenance shops are aligned only in the sense of “customer satisfaction” to compete in the marketplace. They must factor in other considerations to make their products and services commercially viable. This tends to drive them (along with regulators) to risk aversion. There is no upside to a manufacturer, maintenance shop, or regulator supporting the extension of a component beyond recommended time intervals on condition. It is difficult for the independent pilot-owner to know what the regulatory limits are and what is an appropriate balance of risk versus costs or lost time, etc. There has been no independent resource available for guidance or advice.

That is why I am particularly pleased to see organisations such as Quest Aeronautics, founded by Sebastian Neudorfer, entering this space. It is an opportunity to build a community with data from a large fleet of aircraft and across the experience of many general aviation pilot-owners. They bring professional-level knowledge and experience, relying on evidence-based information to provide support to general aviation pilots who want to progress their knowledge and development.

Quest Aeronautics provides “graduate level” courses that assist pilots to move from the student level towards a more systematic and evidence-based model for improving their operational procedures and support owner pilots to take control of the continued airworthiness of their aircraft. They serve to fill the missing “near-peer” collaboration of disseminating best practices and continual learning and development in general aviation.

Organisations like Quest Aeronautics seek to provide a service and “graduate level” training in a commercial model that is independent and fully aligned with the interests of the pilot-owner. The Pilot-Owner Academy is a welcome part of that process and I think fills a valuable gap in the general aviation environment.

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Shawn Matthews

Experimental Test Pilot
Former Squadron Leader, Royal Australian Air Force
EASA Flight Test Rating (Aeroplanes)
Mooney M20J Owner

Shawn Matthews - Image

Shawn Matthews

Experimental Test Pilot
Former Squadron Leader, Royal Australian Air Force
EASA Flight Test Rating (Aeroplanes)
Mooney M20J Owner

What a Test Pilot & Mooney M20J Owner Says About Us

As a military pilot, it is normal that in the years following graduation from basic flying training (“Wings”) courses, and even after initial conversion onto your first operational type, you will still be diving into the books and working hard to progress to an operational combat status. You will be mentored, challenged, and assessed by more experienced operational crews, flight commanders, and squadron executives. Continual learning and development is normalised—a continuous process of assimilating an almost insurmountable amount of information across different areas such as systems knowledge, operational procedures, and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). While the motivation and effort are your own, you are supported by a large organisation with decades of experience, knowledge, and lessons learned that are captured, collated, and made explicitly available to you.

Even after transitioning to experimental and certification test flying in the civilian sector, often with general aviation aircraft, the experience and culture of my prior large organisation and professional aviation foundations have supported me. These foundations of continual learning, seeking to understand and perhaps challenge existing knowledge and procedures, and seeking evidence-based facts to understand and justify operational procedures, have greatly aided me in successfully developing a small independent “third party” flight test department within an EASA Design Organisation. It also greatly assisted me as the recent proud owner of a Mooney M20J.

With this background, it has been interesting to observe the contrast with general aviation, which I have pursued recreationally alongside my professional aviation career. I would still consider myself an amateur in many regards when it comes to the operation of small GA aircraft and their legacy Continental and Lycoming powerplants. I have experienced first-hand some of the confusion and pitfalls of this less structured environment. It has been welcome and refreshing to see the development of communities around organisations such as Quest Aeronautics, which are collating and disseminating evidence-based knowledge and experience into the general aviation world, providing some “post-graduate” support to recreational pilots, particularly owner pilots.

The general aviation world lacks reliable information for various reasons. Some information is retained behind the manufacturer’s intellectual property protection. General aviation tends to operate small fleets in localised environments, limiting the ability to collate and disseminate data and information. In the small airfield school or club setting, there is often a large hierarchical gap, populated with the “CFI” and perhaps older retired professional pilots on the one hand, and very junior student pilots or low-time occasional flyers on the other. There is not often a group of “near-peer” pilots in the middle to easily and openly share experiences and debate options or consider better ways to do things. It is easy to see how the younger cadre are reluctant to challenge mainstream, conventional “wisdom,” and perhaps the older group rely on old knowledge and become dogmatic.

It is particularly isolating to be a pilot-owner, where even interactions in a school or club environment are not available. There are no organisations directly aligned with the pilot-owner. Manufacturers and maintenance shops are aligned only in the sense of “customer satisfaction” to compete in the marketplace. They must factor in other considerations to make their products and services commercially viable. This tends to drive them (along with regulators) to risk aversion. There is no upside to a manufacturer, maintenance shop, or regulator supporting the extension of a component beyond recommended time intervals on condition. It is difficult for the independent pilot-owner to know what the regulatory limits are and what is an appropriate balance of risk versus costs or lost time, etc. There has been no independent resource available for guidance or advice.

That is why I am particularly pleased to see organisations such as Quest Aeronautics, founded by Sebastian Neudorfer, entering this space. It is an opportunity to build a community with data from a large fleet of aircraft and across the experience of many general aviation pilot-owners. They bring professional-level knowledge and experience, relying on evidence-based information to provide support to general aviation pilots who want to progress their knowledge and development.

Quest Aeronautics provides “graduate level” courses that assist pilots to move from the student level towards a more systematic and evidence-based model for improving their operational procedures and support owner pilots to take control of the continued airworthiness of their aircraft. They serve to fill the missing “near-peer” collaboration of disseminating best practices and continual learning and development in general aviation.

Organisations like Quest Aeronautics seek to provide a service and “graduate level” training in a commercial model that is independent and fully aligned with the interests of the pilot-owner. The Pilot-Owner Academy is a welcome part of that process and I think fills a valuable gap in the general aviation environment.

🚀 Book Your Free Professional Strategy Session

The Pilot-Owner Accelerator is not open for direct enrolment. Access begins with a complimentary, no-obligation Professional Strategy Session.

If now’s not the right time — no problem. You can still schedule a session and defer your slot for a limited period. We just need to understand your estimated starting point to plan accordingly.

By booking your Professional Strategy Session, you’ll:

✅ Receive expert guidance tailored to your goals as a serious pilot-owner
✅ Get early access to available programme slots (if you’re a fit)
✅ Walk away with practical insights — whether you join or not

The session is completely free and comes with no commitment. It’s simply your opportunity to explore whether we’re the right fit to support your aviation journey.

⚠️ Due to the personalised nature of the programme, we only accept a limited number of clients each quarter.

✈️ Book Your Strategy Session ⬇️

Already thinking about ownership or upgrading your current aircraft? Then this session is the best place to start.

We’ll help you assess your current situation, explore your next steps, and clarify your path forward — at no cost.

You decide when the time is right to take action.


“Finally—an independent resource truly aligned with the pilot-owner. Quest Aeronautics brings clarity, structure, and professional-level support to general aviation.”
Shawn Matthews - Image
Shawn Matthews
Experimental Test Pilot, Former Squadron Leader (RAAF), Mooney M20J Owner

🚀 Book Your Free Professional Strategy Session

The Pilot-Owner Accelerator is not open for direct enrolment. Access begins with a complimentary, no-obligation Professional Strategy Session.

If now’s not the right time — no problem. You can still schedule a session and defer your slot for a limited period. We just need to understand your estimated starting point to plan accordingly.

By booking your Professional Strategy Session, you’ll:

✅ Receive expert guidance tailored to your goals as a serious pilot-owner
✅ Get early access to available programme slots (if you’re a fit)
✅ Walk away with practical insights — whether you join or not

The session is completely free and comes with no commitment. It’s simply your opportunity to explore whether we’re the right fit to support your aviation journey.

⚠️ Due to the personalised nature of the programme, we only accept a limited number of clients each quarter.

✈️ Book Your Strategy Session ➡️

Already thinking about ownership or upgrading your current aircraft? Then this session is the best place to start.

We’ll help you assess your current situation, explore your next steps, and clarify your path forward — at no cost.

You decide when the time is right to take action.

“Finally—an independent resource truly aligned with the pilot-owner. Quest Aeronautics brings clarity, structure, and professional-level support to general aviation.”
Shawn Matthews - Image
Shawn Matthews
Experimental Test Pilot, Former Squadron Leader (RAAF), Mooney M20J Owner