How the Off Chocks pilot guides are written

Off Chocks is a pilot logbook built by a working airline pilot. The guides answer the questions pilots ask about logging, currency, licences and health under FAA, EASA and CASA rules, with recency guides for Transport Canada and the UK CAA, and each one starts from the rule itself.

Sources

FAA guides quote 14 CFR from the eCFR and the FAA’s own advisory circulars. EASA guides quote the Easy Access Rules for Aircrew. CASA guides quote the current compilation of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations on the Federal Register of Legislation. The Transport Canada guide quotes the Canadian Aviation Regulations on the Justice Laws Website, and the UK CAA guide quotes UK Part-FCL on legislation.gov.uk. Health guides use ICRP, UNSCEAR, ARPANSA, NIOSH, FAA and EU publications and peer-reviewed studies. Every guide lists its sources with links at the foot of the page.

Method

We draft the guides with the help of AI tools that work from the downloaded rule text. Before a guide goes up, its quoted rules, paragraph references and numbers are checked against the source it cites, and the lines about what Off Chocks tracks are checked against the app’s own code. Where a rule is unclear or a source could not be read, the guide says so instead of guessing.

The date at the top of each guide is the day it was last checked against its sources. When a rule changes, we update the guide and its date. Health guides give published figures and say who to ask; they are not medically reviewed and are not medical advice.

Found an error?

Email support@offchocks.com with the guide’s address and the rule you think it gets wrong. A pilot reads every message, and a confirmed error is fixed and dated.

The guides are plain-words summaries to help you keep your own records, not legal advice. The regulation and your operator’s procedures always take precedence.