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The parts of running a club that nobody hands over properly
Most clubs learn this from the previous treasurer, in one conversation, in a car park. These are the things we wish had been written down.
Hobbs or tach?Which meter to bill on, what each one measures, and what it does to the rateSetting the hourly rateWet or dry, the reserves that belong in it, and the arithmeticThe monthly closeA treasurer’s month, in the order it actually happens
Why these three
They are the questions that reach us most often from clubs that are not yet customers, and each one has a clear answer that gets muddled by folklore. None of them require FlightWay. If you take the arithmetic and put it in a spreadsheet, that is a good outcome; you will just find the spreadsheet is where the next problem starts.
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Last updated 18 August 2026.