Jet Mentis Charter Foundation

For anyone who wants to get into aircraft charter brokerage, with no aviation background required. Jet Mentis Charter Foundation is designed to give you the knowledge to start your own brokerage and to sit for Jet Mentis Certified Broker (JMCB™). It is not a certification. Enrollment is open now. The first 15 founding students enroll at $2,495 with code FOUNDATION15.

What the Program Covers

Fourteen modules and a hand-graded capstone, taught in the order a new broker needs them.

Aviation From the Ground Up

What business aviation is, who the players are, and the language the industry speaks. Aircraft categories from turboprops to long-range jets, and how airports and FBOs (the private terminals charter flights use) shape what a trip can and cannot do.

How Charter Works and the Rules Around It

Operators, brokers, aircraft owners and management companies: who does what, and who is responsible for the flight. Part 91 versus Part 135, how to recognize illegal charter, and the FAA and DOT rules that define where the broker’s role starts and stops.

Building the Business

Business models, banking, bookkeeping, payment processing, and the technology a new brokerage actually needs. Contracts, liability and insurance, and how to market a brokerage without misrepresenting what a broker is.

Operators and Quotes

How to find aircraft, build operator relationships, and evaluate an operator before a client ever boards. Then how to turn a client’s request into a complete, properly built proposal.

Selling and Managing the Trip

Selling charter professionally, setting expectations, and answering the client who says someone else is cheaper. Managing a trip from acceptance through post-flight, and what to do when a trip goes wrong.

Launching Your Brokerage

Everything assembled into a launch plan: your market, operator network, professional advisors, technology, sales process and first 90 days. The program ends with a capstone: one realistic charter request, worked from the first call through post-flight.

How You Will Learn It

Hangar Talk

The mentor-led part of the program. The group meets live online every week (twice a week once the group grows) for one hour of open discussion about the material: your questions, real examples, and the judgment calls a lesson can’t settle on a page.

Hands-On Exercises

Modules include practical work, such as decoding a sample itinerary, matching aircraft to a trip, building a quote by hand, and reviewing a brokerage website that has problems built into it.

The Broker’s Trip Kit

Modules add worksheets, checklists and discussion guides covering terminology, aircraft and airport research, operator due diligence, quote development, the trip lifecycle and launch readiness. By the end you have built a working reference set for your own brokerage. It is an educational resource, not a legal, tax, insurance or compliance manual.

Know Your Limits

A broker does not need to be an attorney, an accountant or an insurance professional. A broker does need to know when to call one. That idea runs through the whole program: it teaches you to recognize the questions that call for qualified legal, regulatory, tax or insurance advice. It does not replace that advice.

Founding Seats Are Open Now

Jet Mentis Charter Foundation is not a certification. It is preparation for the industry, and for JMCB™. The first 15 founding students enroll at $2,495 with code FOUNDATION15. When those seats are gone, the price is $3,995.
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