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title: "Checkflight: pilot procedure app case study | Fluff"
description: "A pilot had designed cards that make flight procedures easier to learn."
url: https://www.fluff.software/work/checkflight/
updated: 2026-10-23
publisher: Fluff Software
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# Checkflight: a pilot’s procedure cards, rebuilt for the cockpit

A pilot had designed cards that make flight procedures easier to learn. We turned them into an app that works for revision at home and a quick glance mid-flight, testing every step with pilots.

One codebase, three platforms

_Image: Fast Jet Performance_

- **Client:** Fast Jet Performance, founded by pilot Fabio Toyama

- **Built:** Checkflight, a cross-platform training app

- **Key call:** Keep the fixed-card format after testing showed it worked best

- **Technology:** React Native and Firebase

## The situation

Pilots rely on checklists in the cockpit, but checklists aren’t built for learning. Fabio Toyama had designed cards that visualise flight procedures and wanted them in an app that worked both for detailed study and for a quick reference mid-flight, on any screen size.

## What we questioned first

- **Reinvent the format, or keep it?** Several rounds of design and user testing showed the fixed-card layout was the most effective for in-cockpit reference, so we kept it and refined zoom, pan and navigation around it.
- **Who should test it first?** Early builds went to a trusted group of testers through Firebase, and Fabio was involved at every stage.
- **How do we reach every pilot without three apps?** React Native gave one codebase across iOS, Android and the web.

## What we built

A clean, cross-platform app that combines a custom interface with familiar mobile patterns, with analytics, crash reporting and authentication through Firebase.

_Image: Fast Jet Performance project image 1_

_Image: Fast Jet Performance project image 2_

_Image: Fast Jet Performance project image 3_

## What changed

A tool that serves pilots before and during flight, shaped by feedback from working pilots.

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