I'm a commercial pilot building useful aviation study products to fund the next block of flight hours. KDP aviation workbooks are the cleanest verified proof line.
These are the recorded checkpoints below, not a live dashboard or a new confirmation. Each metric has its own evidence date. Recent receipts and older history ↓
Settled payouts: not verified in this snapshot. No payout amount or payout as-of date is established here. Estimated royalties are not cash received, profit after costs, or flight hours purchased.
Flight checkpoint: Oct 2, 2026 · Royalty records refreshed: Nov 1, 2026; October paid royalty rows through Oct 27, page reads through Oct 28 · Compare the pilot workbooks → September checkpoint plus October once; not a fresh full-range export or settled payout statement.
The workbook catalog is not a vanity shelf. It is the current proof that useful aviation study products can sell to pilots and turn into flight-hour money.
Weather-only realized live PnL is -$142.16 after sports activity was stripped out. The LaunchAgent is off, collectors are paused, the hypothesis is closed, and no trading result is included in the funding total above. Read the final post-mortem →
Native FeedFare version 2026.9.28 was released publicly on October 5, 2026. It is a US $4.99 one-time download with the full native app included and no required subscription; regional price and compatibility are shown by Apple. Public availability does not establish revenue: no verified app revenue is included in the funding total above. The dated April upload receipts below remain historical records.
The OpenClaw playbook remains available, but it is not the lead offer and this page makes no buyer-demand claim for it.
The whole point is to reach the next planning threshold, then recheck real operator openings and requirements. This page tracks the hours, the pace, and whether the timeline is actually improving or just getting romanticized.
Not all revenue is equal. I care about whether an income stream is durable, repeatable, and boring enough to count on. That is why KDP matters more right now than hype around one lucky trade or a flashy launch week.
Only reconciled flight-hour and royalty evidence belongs in the headline totals. Other experiments stay outside those totals unless their contribution can be verified.
These pages explain the flying path and the aviation products funding the experiment.
I need 106.9 more flight hours to reach the 500-hour planning threshold. It is not a universal hiring minimum. At about $200 per hour, it is roughly a $21,380 gap, so I am building useful assets to help fund the next block.
I'm building aviation study products that solve specific training problems, then tracking whether reconciled KDP royalties can fund additional flying.
Headline totals come from the flight log and reconciled KDP exports. Experiments without verified funding contribution stay in the collapsed historical record.
I update this page with real numbers from the experiment: flight hours, revenue, and major milestones. No fake wins, no inflated screenshots.
The latest royalty snapshot and October 2 flight checkpoint are shown with recent royalty history. Expand the older receipts for earlier flight-log updates and complete historical disclosures; their original dates and facts are preserved.
The September 29 checkpoint (190 full-catalog books, 181 aviation units and $1,594.23 aviation USD) plus October once yields these tracked totals. The October 26 snapshot is replaced, not added again. €71.47 EUR and A$9.49 AUD remain separate and unchanged. This is carried-forward tracking, not a fresh full-history export, settled deposits or profit after costs.
Four paperback units ordered in September generated $38.36 USD in October processed royalties. They remain in the October total: order dates and royalty-processing dates are different clocks. Print orders are processed after shipping; these October-processed rows are not subtracted or counted as new September royalties.
Separate Amazon Ads campaign export, with October 1–31 reporting dates confirmed by the account owner (not encoded in the CSV): $108.72 spend, 11 attributed purchases and $230.06 attributed retail sales, or 47.26% retail ACOS. Ads purchases are not additional KDP units; retail sales are not royalties or profit. Campaign totals alone do not establish title-level royalty attribution or profitable scaling.
The existing September 29 checkpoint plus October once produces these tracked totals; €71.47 EUR and A$9.49 AUD remain separate and unchanged. The earlier audit export has the same September totals and no September 30 paid records. This is not a fresh full-range export, a final October close, settled cash, or profit after advertising and other costs.
Separate Amazon Ads export, with the reporting dates confirmed as October 1–26: $94.86 spend, 10 attributed purchases and $205.07 attributed retail sales (46.26% retail ACOS). October 26 is partial and recent click attribution is immature. Ads purchases are not added to KDP units; retail sales are not royalties. Campaign totals cannot isolate the October 22 exclusions or establish their profit impact. HOLD SCALE: the review plan keeps bids and budgets unchanged while the scheduled reviews gather mature evidence.
At this checkpoint, 400 TT is 6.9 hours away and the 500-hour planning gap is 106.9 hours. At an assumed $200 USD/hour, that is $21,380. The unchanged $1,594.23 USD in estimated aviation royalties through September 29 equals 7.5% of that planning cost, not settled cash or hours purchased. This report does not establish a route, flight date, or current medical or operational eligibility.
Print orders are processed after shipping. This export has no processed Walk Through the Gospels sale, which does not establish zero orders placed. Amazon Ads attribution is separate; no ad-profit or budget-lift claim is made. HOLD SCALE: this KDP snapshot does not clear the advertising proof gate.
Separate Amazon Ads campaign CSV supplied September 22: $25.96 spend, 7 attributed purchases, $149.93 attributed retail sales, and 17.31% retail ACOS. The CSV has campaign start dates but no reporting-window fields, so it does not independently verify a September 1–22 Ads window. Retail sales are not royalties, and attributed purchases are not added to KDP units. HOLD SCALE: campaign totals alone do not establish same-window query/target/placement evidence or royalty profit.
This experiment exists to buy more flight time. These are the pages that explain how I'm training, studying, and trying not to light money on fire.