What could you do
with an airplane?

How the studio works, and what it is not.

Every example is a complete, editable plan: an assumptions form, a timeline you can change minute by minute, a schematic map with an itinerary table, a packing or passenger board, transparent estimates with their formulas, at least one comparison, a “What changes if…?” panel with a change ledger, a plain explanation written from the calculated values, a plan B, the list of things awaiting confirmation, and a source drawer.

• Deterministic. Distances are great-circle values; times come from an illustrative aircraft profile and the minutes you set; costs are ranges from placeholders you should replace. Nothing is retrieved live; no model writes a number.
• Fictional. Every airport, course, camp, lake and company here is made up, and says so in its name. A real trip needs current official airport information, the airports themselves, and a real briefing.
• Private first. Save a plan to My Hangar in this browser. Sharing starts with a preview: contacts, exact dates and private destinations stay out of the guest card unless you tick them.
• Not flight planning. No weather, NOTAMs, fuel prices, runway status, tee times or lodging are looked up. No suitability, “safe to fly” or weight-and-balance result is produced: when a fit cannot be established, the page says what is missing.

The aircraft in these scenarios

Three illustrative profiles (a light single, a light twin and, for one educational comparison only, a backcountry-capable single) with round numbers chosen so the arithmetic can be shown. They are not the Cherokee 180, the Baron 58P or any specific aircraft: this site publishes no sourced performance figures for either, and the homepage stories say the useful numbers come from each aircraft’s approved manual.

Sources and assumptions sit in a drawer on every example, with a “suggest a correction” link. Saved plans and shared cards carry the schema version, so they survive later upgrades.