The Pilot-Owner Accelerator

Simplifying the complexities of aircraft ownership and operation—so you can take flight with clarity, confidence, and control.

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*Joining the waitlist secures your opportunity to schedule a 1-on-1 Professional Strategy Session, where we’ll explore your aviation goals and determine if the Accelerator is the right fit.

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Own and Operate Your Continental or Lycoming Powered Aircraft with Competence and Confidence.

Most pilots and aircraft owners face unnecessary stress, high costs, and operational inefficiencies because they lack the right guidance and tools for aircraft ownership. Many don’t even know where to start—whether it’s understanding licenses and ratings, selecting the right aircraft, or navigating airworthiness management and aircraft operation.

Owning and operating a Continental or Lycoming powered aircraft can feel overwhelming.

  • Stress: Where to start—managing airworthiness, maintenance, and operational complexity?
  • Costs: Maintenance and operational inefficiencies, leading to wasted resources.
  • Compromised Safety: Second-guessing decisions or missing critical insights.
  • Wasted Time: Losing hours to trial-and-error instead of focusing on flying.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Imagine owning and operating your Continental or Lycoming powered aircraft with the confidence of a seasoned professional—saving thousands in maintenance costs, maximising fuel efficiency, flying safely without second-guessing your decisions, and reclaiming your valuable time.

The Pilot-Owner Accelerator is designed to take the guesswork out of ownership. Through expert-led guidance, proven strategies, and concierge-level services, we help you fast-track your journey to becoming a competent and confident pilot and aircraft owner—no matter where you’re starting.

  • Competence and Confidence: Owning and flying like a seasoned pro.
  • Savings: Thousands saved with evidence-based strategies and techniques.
  • Improved Safety: Making informed decisions with expert-backed guidance.
  • Time Saved: Fast-track your learning curve and focus on flying.

Your Journey Ahead

  • Join the Waitlist: Secure your interest. No payment or commitment.
  • Professional Strategy Session: We’ll clarify your aviation goals and determine whether we’re a good fit.
  • Sign Up: If accepted, begin your personalised 6-month Accelerator journey.
  • Proactive Airworthiness Framework: Set up your ownership foundation—CAMO/Savvy, basic rules, engine condition monitoring.
  • Advanced Aircraft Operations Guide: Learn everything you need to fly, operate, and manage your aircraft with clarity.
  • Exclusive Pilot-Owner Alumni Support Programme: Ongoing support and access—but available only to Accelerator alumni.
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What’s Included in the 6-Month Pilot-Owner Accelerator

This isn’t just coaching. It’s a structured, expert-led journey designed to guide you through every decision of aircraft ownership—based on experience, not guesswork.

Proactive Airworthiness Framework – Airworthiness Management

Take the stress out of airworthiness with expert management and guidance.

What We Deliver:

  • Management Made Easy: We partner with trusted CAMOs/CAOs (Europe) and SavvyAviation (US) to ensure your aircraft’s continuing airworthiness is handled seamlessly.
  • Proactive Strategies: Learn reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) principles and set up engine condition monitoring to catch potential issues early.
  • Expert Guidance: Gain actionable strategies for maintenance shop communication and oversight, ensuring transparency and cost-efficiency.

Why It Matters:

  • Save up to 30% on maintenance costs with proactive strategies.
  • Minimise downtime and improve operational reliability with expert-led solutions.
  • Build confidence in managing airworthiness while enjoying peace of mind.
  • Reclaim time spent coordinating maintenance and troubleshooting by leveraging expert support and proactive solutions.

Studies show that combining RCM and engine condition monitoring can save up to 30% in costs over traditional fixed-schedule maintenance approaches.

Advanced Aircraft Operations Guide – Aircraft Operation

Master the skills needed to operate your Continental or Lycoming powered aircraft safely and efficiently.

What We Deliver:

  • Advanced Engine Management: Learn techniques such as advanced leaning, over-square operation, and optimal temperature management to maximise efficiency and engine lifespan.
  • Operational Support: Receive aircraft-specific test cards and checklists for enhanced safety and efficiency.
  • Precision Control: Enhance your stick-and-rudder skills with concepts like angle of attack and the backside of the power curve.

Why It Matters:

  • Cut fuel costs by up to 40% with advanced engine management.
  • Fly with competence and precision, knowing you’ve mastered key skills for safe and efficient operation.
  • Reduce inefficiencies and focus on what matters most—flying confidently and efficiently.
  • Accelerate your learning curve—master advanced techniques in weeks, not years, and focus your time on enjoying the freedom of flying.

Proper engine management techniques significantly lower operational costs and extend engine lifespan, while advanced flying skills reduce safety risks and increase pilot confidence.

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Independent. Experienced. Trusted.

We believe every pilot and aircraft owner deserves a streamlined and stress-free journey to confident aircraft ownership.

Founded by an aviation professional with decades of expertise, our Accelerator provides a full-service program tailored to meet the unique needs of aspiring and seasoned pilots and aircraft owners alike. Here’s why we’re different:

  • Expert Guidance: Leverage the knowledge of aviation veterans who have managed aircraft operations, airworthiness, and ownership for years, saving you countless hours of trial and error.
  • Proven Strategies: Benefit from methods designed to save you time, reduce costs, and maximise safety.
  • Concierge-Level Support: From aircraft selection to ongoing airworthiness management, we handle the complexities so you can focus on flying.

We’re passionate about delivering clarity, efficiency, and confidence to every client we serve. Our mission is to empower you with the tools, insights, and services needed to master aircraft ownership and operation, no matter your starting point.

Solving the Challenges of Aircraft Ownership and Operation

  • Who to Trust: With dealers and service providers pushing their own agendas, it’s hard to know if you’re getting unbiased advice.
  • Managing Maintenance: Continuing airworthiness and maintenance coordination are complex. Engine condition monitoring is often overlooked, leading to missed warning signs that could prevent costly repairs or unsafe situations. Mechanics may not keep owners informed during the process, leaving you in the dark until the bill arrives.
  • Optimising Operations: Engine management, particularly leaning techniques, is often neglected or misunderstood, resulting in wasted fuel, higher operating costs, and reduced reliability.
  • Time Wasted: Navigating these complexities without expert guidance can cost you countless hours—time better spent enjoying the freedom of flying.

Without the right guidance, these challenges can lead to stress, wasted money, lost time, and even compromised safety.

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“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

Exclusive Pilot-Owner Alumni Support Programme

The Pilot-Owner Alumni Support Programme  ensures that your journey as a pilot and aircraft owner doesn’t end with the Accelerator. Designed exclusively for alumni, it offers continuous support for airworthiness management, personalised engine monitoring insights, timely reminders for renewals, and expert mediation when challenges arise. With advanced lectures and workshops, you’ll stay ahead in every aspect of aviation.

  • Airworthiness Management: Continued coordination with CAMOs/CAOs (Europe) or SavvyAviation (US) for your aircraft’s ongoing compliance.
  • Engine Condition Monitoring: Personalised data analysis and actionable insights to keep your engine performing at its best.
  • License and Maintenance Reminders: Automatic notifications for upcoming renewals, inspections, and maintenance schedules.
  • Dispute Mediation: Expert assistance in resolving conflicts with maintenance shops or service providers.
  • Advanced Lectures and Workshops: Access to exclusive content on advanced aviation topics, operational best practices, and emerging technologies.

6-Month Membership

Membership Fee: €2,400 (excl. VAT)

12-Month Membership

Membership Fee: €4,175 (excl. VAT)

24-Month Membership

Membership Fee: €7,950 (excl. VAT)

*Membership is offered only by invitation to alumni. Access is one-way. Once out, you’re out—unless paused for a good reason.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. While many of our clients already hold a licence or operate Continental or Lycoming powered aircraft, this is not a requirement. Whether you’re just getting started or upgrading your qualifications, we’ll guide you based on your current experience and goals.

Absolutely not. Many clients begin their journey with us before purchasing an aircraft. We’ll help you define your mission, evaluate suitable aircraft, and develop a plan to build the necessary experience—especially if transitioning to complex or high-performance types.

The core programme is structured around a 6-month timeline. However, the exact duration depends on your current stage, aircraft access, and mission complexity. Ongoing support is available through our exclusive Alumni Support Programme after graduation.

Neither. The Pilot-Owner Accelerator is a one-on-one, expert-led framework focused on guiding you through the complexities of aircraft ownership and operation. We can coordinate and recommend flight training options that fit your path, but the training itself is provided independently and paid for separately.

No, and that’s by design. We work independently from CAMOs/CAOs, OEMs, and maintenance shops to ensure truly unbiased guidance. For continuing airworthiness, we coordinate with trusted partners such as selected CAMOs/CAOs (Europe) or SavvyAviation (US) on your behalf—while you remain in full control.

No. We do not perform maintenance or act as a design organisation. Instead, we help you manage and oversee the process—providing tools, checklists, and expert strategies to improve communication, ensure transparency, and reduce costs with your chosen shop or mechanic.

Upon completing the programme, you’ll be invited to join our exclusive Pilot-Owner Alumni Support Programme. This concierge-style service provides continued guidance, airworthiness tracking, engine data monitoring, expert support for unexpected challenges, and access to advanced content.

No. We are completely independent and not affiliated with OEMs, training organisations, or service providers. This allows us to offer you unbiased advice, act as your advocate, and help you make decisions that serve your best interests—not someone else’s sales target.

Start Your Journey to Confident Aircraft Ownership Today

The Pilot-Owner Accelerator is a premium, expert-guided programme designed to eliminate guesswork, shortcut your learning curve, and set you up for success as a confident, competent pilot and aircraft owner.

What’s Included:

  • Comprehensive Guidance: Expert-led support covering airworthiness and maintenance management, advanced aircraft operation, and tailored solutions to help you navigate every aspect of aircraft ownership and operation with confidence.
  • Lifetime Resources: Lifetime access to curated resources, tools, and checklists to keep you ahead in your aviation journey.
  • Personalised Service: One-on-one mentoring tailored to your aircraft, mission, and goals, ensuring every solution is aligned with your unique needs.
  • Exclusive Bonuses: Additional resources and services valued at over €10,000, including advanced aviation workshops, personalised mission templates, and expert equipment recommendations.

Programme Cost: €24,000 (excl. VAT)

Due to the personalised nature of our programme, we limit enrolment to 12 clients at a time, with only 3 new clients accepted per quarter. Once the cap is reached, no additional spots will be available in the corresponding quarter, so we encourage early applications. Currently, the wait time is approximately 3 months.

Sign up this quarter and get free one-year access to our Exclusive Pilot-Owner Alumni Support Programme (valued at €4,175).

*This is not a purchase. It simply secures your place in line for a Professional Strategy Session.

Talk to us

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.

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