How charter works
You are buying the airplane, not a seat on it
When you charter, the aircraft is yours for the trip. Nobody else is on it. It leaves when you say and it goes where you send it. The price is for the airplane and the pilot, so six people costs what one person costs.
Weight decides more than anything else
An airplane has a number, and everything on board counts against it: people, gear, fuel. That is why our request form asks what your load weighs instead of how many of you there are. It is not a formality. It is the difference between a trip that flies and one that has to go twice.
The surface at the far end decides whether we can come
Pavement, gravel, dirt, and length. Our 207 is on wheels, which rules out lakes and rules in a great deal of Alaska. If you do not know what is at your destination, say so on the form — that is a normal answer and we will find out.
Weather owns the schedule and everyone involved knows it
We will not launch into something we do not like, and we will tell you early rather than late. If your dates have any give in them, tell us on the form. A three-day window almost always gets flown. A single fixed day sometimes does not.
What happens after you send a request
A pilot reads it. You get a call — usually the same day, always within one business day. We talk through the load, the strip, and the weather, and then you get a price for the whole airplane. Nothing is charged and nothing is committed until you say go.
What we will need from you eventually
Names and weights for everyone flying, a real weight for the gear, and a phone number that works on the day. That is it.