RCCheckList creates a detailed ownership record of every model you own, each with a custom preflight list you actually run from your phone. The app automatically logs your flight time. That single model record is what works the checklist at the field, what instantly writes the ad when you sell it, and what you hand an adjuster if your garage floods or your model gets stolen or damaged in transit.
The list is not a form and it is not optional. Ready To Fly stays locked until the last item is ticked, and the flight timer will not start any other way.
You never pick a template. An electric helicopter gets pack selection and resting voltage against the threshold for that pack. A gas plane gets ignition off while priming, and asks what is left in the tank rather than what the pack read. Fuel and charge are both a percentage, because nobody measures ounces at the flightline. You set the type and the power once when you add the aircraft, and that is the last decision you make about any of it.
Resting voltage goes in on the line that asks for it. Flight time comes off the timer, not off your memory in the truck. What was left in the pack goes in when you walk back to the table. Nothing on this screen was entered to sell anything, which is the entire reason it is worth reading later.
Retracts add a gear cycle. Dual ignition adds a second pack to check. A bambi bucket adds the line about the line being clear of the skids. Two warbirds differ from each other on those more than a warbird differs from an aerobat, which is why the list is built from what is bolted to your airframe rather than from what you call it.
Nobody typed 203. That is how many checklists that airframe has closed since March 2024, and every ad prints the date right beside the count.
A checklist you run at the flightline cannot save you from the glow driver still on the bench. So the app builds a second list, from the aircraft you are actually taking today.
Every model carries what it needs in the car, the same way it carries its own preflight: blades and a pitch gauge because it is a helicopter, a fuel can and a glow driver because it runs nitro. Pick tonight's aircraft and the list writes itself.
Take a nitro helicopter and a nitro airplane and you do not read the fuel can twice. It appears once, with both models named under it, so you know why it is on the list and how much of it to throw in. Leave one at home and the line stays, credited to the one still coming.
The chair, the water, the AMA card, the hex drivers. One list of your own that comes with every aircraft you own, edited in one place and never typed again.
Nothing here is a template. The lists come off the airframe and the power, which you set once, and everything else is yours.
Ten spec rows, the photographs and the flight count are already sitting there. A price and a paragraph you can edit, and that is the entire form.
Every registered pilot in range gets it on the lock screen with the app closed, which is the one thing a browser tab cannot do. Plenty of models never make it past that.
A square card: the photograph, the price, the city, the flight count and the cockpit code in the corner. Post the image on its own with no link, so the group's feed does not bury it. Anyone who points a camera at the code lands on the full spec sheet.
It sits behind the listing, and only a registered pilot gets through to it. Nothing is harvested out of a screenshot, and there is no anonymous is this still available at eleven at night.
Put the buyer's email in and the aircraft, its setup sheet, the cockpit code and every logged flight move across, so the label taped in the canopy keeps working for its next owner. Your own flight count drops by that many, which is the honest way round. No email for him? Mark it sold anyway, and the code answers that this aircraft was sold to whoever scans it, instead of leaving a dead link in somebody's canopy.
An insurance adjuster does not want a jet. He wants the same six things for every airframe, per item and dated, and you typed most of them to fly it.
That total is worked out every time the page is drawn and never stored, so it cannot go stale the way a spreadsheet does. An airframe with no figure yet is named on the face of the panel rather than dropped out of the sum, which would hand you a total short by the price of a jet.
Most homeowners policies cap hobby equipment low and settle at actual cash value rather than replacement cost, unless you carry a rider or a schedule. Ask yours which it is. A typed figure, a photograph and a date are what you need for that conversation, and most pilots walk into it with none of the three. What your model would fetch is a different number again, and that one belongs in the price field, not here.
Every ad tells you which is which, so you can weigh it yourself instead of trusting a badge somebody bought.
An evening on the couch can manufacture a dozen checklists on a model nobody flew. What it cannot manufacture is two seasons of them under a record dated March 2024, which is why the date sits next to the count.
Not blurred, and not sitting in the code behind it. They go to registered pilots, one listing at a time, and distance stays rounded until you are actually talking.
Reading the board needs no account at all. Registering is free and takes about a minute, and it is the only thing standing between a stranger and a phone number.
Thumbing a motor part number into a phone in a gravel parking lot is nobody's idea of a good time. The setup sheet lives on a computer, on a real keyboard, with autocomplete pulled off your other aircraft.
Do not point a camera at a screenshot, here or anywhere else. Scan the one you printed and taped in the canopy, and treat every code you meet in a feed the same way.
No subscription, no listing fee, no commission, and no trial that expires. If I ever sell it or shut it down, you get ninety days notice and a full export: every aircraft, every setup sheet, every flight as a CSV, and a zip of your photographs. RCCheckList never handles the money on a sale either, so there is nothing there for it to take a cut of.
No. Anyone can read an ad: the photographs, the spec rows, the price, the flight count and the rough distance. Registering buys you one thing, which is the seller name, phone and email, released one listing at a time. It is free and it takes about a minute.
Not many yet, and the honest answer will change every week. It fills one hangar at a time, the way every board fills. That is why this page asks you to put an aircraft in rather than go shopping. The setup sheet, the checklist, the flight log and the replacement figure are worth keeping whether or not anybody ever buys from you, and the day you do want to sell, the ad is already written.
Your phone and email go to registered pilots who open your listing, and to nobody else. They are not on the page and not in the data behind it. Your street address goes to nobody at all: it is used once, to work out roughly how far each ad is from you, and public distances are rounded.
No. There is no feed, no profile page, no follower count and nobody to follow. There is no advertising in it and your hangar is not for sale to anybody. The only thing that ever leaves your hangar is an ad you publish yourself.
Nothing here holds your money, and that is not going to change. Treat it the way you treat every classifieds deal: talk on the phone, meet, look at it, hand it over. What you get here that you do not get in a Facebook group is a seller who is not anonymous at eleven at night, a spec sheet you can read before you drive, and a flight count that came out of closed checklists rather than a text field.
It goes with the airframe. Put the buyer email in and the aircraft, its setup sheet, the cockpit code and every logged flight move across to him, so the label taped in the canopy keeps working for the next owner. Your own flight count drops by that many, which is the honest way round. If you do not have his email, mark it sold anyway and the code answers this aircraft was sold to whoever scans it, instead of leaving a dead link in somebody's canopy.
It runs in a browser tab, but three things only work once you add the "app" to your home screen: 1. Notices with the app closed, 2. The camera scanning a cockpit code, and 3. Checklists at a field with no wifi or cell signal.
If the answer isn't clear after reading the website, the service may not be for you. Even if you simply use it as a tool to create a portable ad listing that you can share everywhere, you get a real benefit apart from the checklists and logs.
Put in the one you fly most. Ten rows at a keyboard, the checklist is already there, and you can print the label the same evening. If it is not worth the ninety seconds the next time you fly, you will know by Saturday.