Find your Safety Pilot, Hour Building Buddy, or Instructor
Find experienced pilots for safety support, hour building, cost-sharing trips, challenging airports, confidence flights, and ATPL or PPL theory instruction.
Compare aircraft experience, ratings, countries flown, availability, rates, and profile type in one focused European GA network.
A network built for GA pilots
CockpitMatch helps pilots find practical flying support in one place.
Practical support when you need it
From safety support to structured instruction, find the right match quickly.
Match experience before departure
See aircraft flown, hours, countries, and instructor background before contacting.
Built around European GA flying
A focused place to arrange safety flights, shared trips, hour building, and theory support.
Compare experience before you connect
Filter by aircraft flown, valid ratings, minimum hours, countries, availability, and hourly rate.
Confidence for demanding flights
Find support for busy airspace, mountain flying, major airports, and longer trips.
Find the right pilot for your next flight
Search for safety pilots, flying partners, hour building buddies, and instructors across Europe.
European flying made easier
Connect with pilots across borders for practical support and shared flying goals.
Find pilots by aircraft type
Search by specific aircraft experience before planning your next route.
Search beyond your local airfield
Find available pilots across Europe by dates, ratings, and route suitability.
Search the right match
Use the finder page to combine filters like aircraft type, minimum SEP or MEP hours, countries flown, rate, cost-sharing, exact availability, and specific profile types such as practical or theoretical instruction.
Compare experience and fit
Quickly compare pilot backgrounds, ratings, aircraft flown, countries of experience, and whether someone is offering a paid safety role, a cost-sharing flying partnership, practical instruction, or theory support.
Connect directly
Once you find a good match, open the profile and get in touch directly through the platform to plan a safety flight, shared trip, hour-building flight, or theory session.
What kind of pilot are you looking for?
CockpitMatch supports different flying goals, from simply finding someone to share a route with to finding experienced support for more demanding flights.
Safety Pilot
A pilot who joins your flight to add experience, support, lookout, confidence, or operational backup. Useful for challenging routes, new aircraft, busy airspace, or building confidence.
Hour Building Buddy
Another pilot looking to fly more, share routes, and often split costs where legally allowed. Best for regular flying, cross-country trips, and keeping current.
Practical Instructor
A flight instructor or CRI who can provide structured practical training, refreshers, check preparation, multi-engine support, or aircraft-specific instruction.
Theory Instructor
Someone who helps with ATPL, PPL, or other theory subjects. Useful for exam preparation, difficult topics, question-bank strategy, or one-to-one explanation.
Browse featured pilot profiles
Browse a selection from the network below, or open the full finder page to search for pilots, buddies, instructors, theory instructors, and other flying matches.
Anna Keller
Experienced safety pilot available for IFR support and ferry flights.
Marc Dubois
Experienced safety pilot available for IFR support and ferry flights.
Sam Guichelaar
Flight Instructor & CRI for Multi Engine & Single Engine. Previously full time fight instructor for MEP & SEP. Open to all enquiries for safety pilot.
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