Built by Pilots, for Pilots Who Live on the Road

I'm Jeff Gill, and I'm a Gulfstream captain. I fly corporate jets worldwide, including the G-IV, G-V, and G550, and I love what I do.

But here's the truth: a few years ago, I was flying full-time and picking up contract trips on the side. I was making great money, but my personal life was in shambles.

Laundry piled up. Bills got paid late. I'd miss important family events because I forgot to coordinate coverage. Hotel bookings would go wrong. I was constantly stressed about the logistics of life while trying to focus on flying million-dollar aircraft.

That's when I realized: I needed help. But not just any help. I needed someone who understood aviation. Someone who got why a 3 AM text about a last-minute trip change wasn't unreasonable. Someone who understood crew rest requirements, duty limits, and the chaos of international operations.

So I hired my first Wingmate, a commercial pilot with years of international experience who preferred to work from home. I trained this teammate on exactly what I needed, and it changed everything.

Suddenly, I had bandwidth again. My hotels were booked right. My errands got handled. My life actually worked.

That's when the lightbulb went on: if this made my life better, imagine what it could do for other aviation professionals living the same chaotic, on-the-road lifestyle.

I'd spent months onboarding this new assistant and building systems. Why not share that with the rest of the industry?

So I built AvvA, a virtual assistant service designed specifically for people who fly for a living. These are people who understand that “Tuesday” depends on what time zone you're in, and “home” is wherever you land this week.

Generic virtual assistant services don't get us. They don't understand why a "quick turnaround" in El Paso means something different than it does in a corporate office. They don't know that crew rest requirements aren't negotiable. They've never had to coordinate ground transport in a country where they don't speak the language.

AvvA was built by people who've lived this life. We've slept in crew hotels. We've dealt with last-minute schedule changes. We've coordinated logistics across a dozen time zones.

That kind of understanding is not something you can teach from a manual. The knowledge is earned through thousands of hours in the air and on the road.