Apps
Checklist by Flying is Life
Build, import and run your own checklists from big section tiles you can hit in turbulence. Works offline. £6.99 once.
New: Checklist is out now
Fly prepared. Enjoy the flying.
Flying is Life makes apps, tools and learning resources that take the faff out of getting airborne, so more of your attention is left for the good part.
What we make
Apps, tools and learning for pilots
One product is ready today. The rest is labelled honestly.
Tools
Small tools for the jobs around a flight
Ideas on the bench, not promises: quick helpers for the sums and admin that sit either side of a flight. Each one ships only when it is good enough to use in our own flying.
Learning
Ground-school refreshers
Short interactive modules and quizzes for keeping PPL theory sharp between flights, checked against published training material. Nothing to try yet.
Available now
Checklist by Flying is Life
Your own checklists, on your phone, laid out for one-handed use in the cockpit.
- Big section tiles: tap the phase of flight, tick the items, back to the grid with the next one lit.
- A red EMERG button on every screen, with emergency drills one tap away.
- Make a checklist by hand, from a template, by pasting text, from a PDF or by photographing a paper one.
- Refuel stops and touch and goes: add the sections again with one tap, as often as you need.
- Radio readback boxes, a FREDA log, a speeds card and a flight timer that can note your position.
£6.99 once. Try the demo first.
Why it works
Find your place in one glance
Every phase of flight gets its own big tile. Tap it, tick the items, and you are back at the grid with the next phase lit up. No scrolling through a long list with a chart on your knee.
Our promises
Simple, fair and honest
Built in a real cockpit
Every product starts as something we needed on a real flight in a real light aircraft, and gets flown before it gets sold.
Yours stays yours
No accounts and no tracking. What you write in an app stays on your own device unless you choose to share it.
Honest about what it is
Our apps are memory aids. Your aircraft's flight manual is always the authority, and we say so plainly.
Pay once
A fair one-off price, a 14 day refund for any reason, and no subscription.
Testers wanted
Fly with it. Tell us what is wrong with it.
We are looking for pilots and student pilots to try Checklist on their own phone and report back. Testers get the full app free.
About
A small business run by a pilot
Flying is Life is run by Gavin George, a pilot in South Wales who flies club aircraft and teaches young people about flying at weekends. It started with one problem: a paper checklist that was hard to follow with a chart on one knee and the radio going.
The answer became Checklist. The plan from here is simple: build the things pilots keep wishing they had, test them in the air, charge a fair one-off price and keep them honest.