What the owner report should say

Owners do not want a spreadsheet. They want to know the airplane is being run well, and the fastest way to show that is a page with four numbers and a short table, every month, without being asked.

01The four numbers

• Fuel purchased, because it is what hit the card.
• Block hours, because engine and maintenance reserves accrue on them.
• Gallons burned, because it is the honest measure of what the flying cost, separate from when the fuel was bought.
• Average price paid per gallon, against the planning price, because that is the number that shows judgment.

02Estimate versus actual

The total is not the story; the total is whatever the owner's calendar demanded. The story is whether the plan was right. JetDesk stores the estimate at the moment you log each leg (block, burn and cost at your planning price) and the report shows the fuel burned at the prices actually paid against that estimate. A pilot who is consistently within five percent has earned trust. A pilot who is consistently under has found cheaper fuel.

03Where the fuel came from

A second table lists each airport where fuel was bought, gallons, average price and total. Owners are surprised by how much the spread between fields is worth over a month. This table is also the justification for the occasional stop that added 30 minutes.

04How it gets built

Every leg you fly gets three numbers after the flight: block time, fuel used, and fuel bought with the price paid. That takes about fifteen seconds on the leg card. On the first of the month JetDesk assembles last month's legs into the report and emails it to everyone on the operation, including anyone you invited with owner view-only access. You can also build it any time from the Trip tab, Flight log, for a link that prints to one clean page.

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