One aircraft. Several pilots. Every hour accounted for.
Kai runs the shared side of owning an aircraft: who flies when, what each flight cost, and what the aircraft needs next. Every partner sees the same book.
- Hobbs
- 2,140.8 h
- Jet A-1
- 110 / 155 L
- Next
- Magneto check · 17 Oct
A shared aircraft, run on Kai.
Fly. Land. It's already in the book.
Import the flight straight from your EFB, and Kai does the rest: times, Hobbs, the pilot's invoice and the hours left to the next inspection.
- 01 Book
Reserve the aircraft
Sat · 09:00–12:00 - 02 Fly
Your EFB records the track
SkyDemon · ForeFlight · Garmin Pilot - 03 Log
Times and airports filled in
LEMD → LOWW · 1.6 h - 04 Bill
Charged to whoever flew
1.6 h × 235 €/h = 376 € - 05 Maintain
Hours to the next check
Magneto check in 8.4 h
- SkyDemon
- ForeFlight
- Garmin Pilot
Bill on Hobbs, flight time or block time: the group chooses.
Maintenance that counts hours and days.
Intervals run on Hobbs or airborne hours and on the calendar, so the 50-hour check, the annual and the ARC never depend on someone's memory. When something is overdue, the aircraft can be grounded until it is signed back into service.
Grounding blocks new bookings and tells every partner, with the reason and the dates.
Illustrative figures
Shares, not just members.
An aircraft share is property. Kai keeps a proper share register next to the calendar and the accounts, so holdings drive booking rights and costs, and a change of partner is a recorded transfer rather than a spreadsheet edit.
- Share register
- Holdings, minimum holding and a full transfer history, exportable as a PDF register for a notary, bank or insurer.
- Booking rights per share
- Quotas and prime-weekend limits per partner, counted as a running budget across the year.
- Costs by ownership
- Hangar, insurance and the annual split equally or by ownership percentage. Flying charged to whoever flew.
- Selling a share
- List a share on the Kai marketplace, collect interested buyers and complete the transfer once payment is confirmed.
| Partner | Shares | Hours YTD | Balance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Rivera | 2 | 38.4 | −2,310 € |
| Casey Morgan | 2 | 41.9 | −2,924 € |
| Alex Thompson | 1 | 12.7 | 0 € |
| Sam Chen | 1 | 9.2 | +315 € |
Illustrative figures from the demo group
Four desks. One tech log.
Every flight booked fairly.
One calendar per aircraft or for the whole fleet. Booking rules handle quotas and prime weekends; a cancelled slot goes to the next pilot on the waitlist.
The aircraft tells you what it needs.
Magneto checks, oil changes and the annual scheduled against Hobbs and dates, with the cost of each job attached to the aircraft.
Who owes what, without the awkward message.
Flying, hangar, insurance and landing fees split by the group's rules. Every partner sees their own balance and pays online or by bank transfer.
Every flight, on the map.
Routes from the group's usage logs on one map, with totals per aircraft, the most visited airport and a month-by-month replay.
Log it before you leave the airfield.
Kai's apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Mac are where pilots book a slot, log block and flight times, Hobbs and fuel, and report a squawk. Photograph the panel and Kai reads the fuel and oil levels for you.
- Book a slot
- From the calendar
- Post-flight log
- Block · flight · Hobbs · fuel
- Scan the panel
- Fuel and oil read for you
iPhone · iPad · Android · Mac
The details pilots ask about.
Landing fees reconciled
Upload the airport's invoice and match it against the flights that caused each fee.
Licences and medicals
PPL, ratings and medical certificates per pilot, with expiry dates in view.
Operational flights
Ferry, maintenance and test flights flown for the group, kept apart from private flying.
Squawks to maintenance
A reported issue becomes a maintenance item and can ground the aircraft until it is fixed.
Running shared ownership across several aircraft?
Owners who sell shares in their own aircraft use Kai as the operating layer: every aircraft runs as its own group of partners, and you keep the direct relationship with each of them. We'll set up one of your aircraft on a trial.
See it run on a real aircraft.
The demo group holds a Diamond DA40 NG with bookings, flights, maintenance and costs already in it.