About
Built by an Airfield Manager
Glidepath is airside operations software for airports and military airfields of any size, from general aviation fields and FBOs to Part 139 airports and multi-airport authorities. It was built by someone who has spent nineteen years running Air Force airfields and got tired of doing the same work five times.
- Founded in
- Michigan
- Made for
- Every airfield, priced for smaller ones
- Built on
- 14 CFR Part 139, DAFMAN, and UFC
Who it’s for
Part 139 airports
Self-inspections, field conditions, SMS, AEP, ARFF, training, and certification readiness, mapped to your approved ACM (Airport Certification Manual).
General aviation, reliever, and municipal airports, and FBOs
Turn on the modules you use, like self-inspections, discrepancies and work orders, NOTAMs, and wildlife, and leave the certification modules off.
Airport authorities with more than one field
One login reaches every airport a person is cleared for, and each airport's records stay separate.
Military airfields
Built on DAFMAN (the Air Force's airfield operations manual) and UFC (the military's airfield design criteria). In daily use at multiple military airfields today.
How it started
Fourth light east of Bravo
On one of his first nights inspecting airfield lighting, Chris reported an outage the way everyone did. One finding became a radio call, a circle on a wall diagram, a work order, a follow-up, and one person's memory.
Retiring a measuring wheel
After years of Excel scripts and a PowerPoint slide with a thousand hand-placed circles for the airfield lights, Chris built his first real tool. It did obstruction evaluations. What used to take the UFC, a measuring wheel, and several agencies now took a position and a height. From there, he and his operations manager rebuilt the rest of an airfield manager's day, module by module.
It traveled on its own
There was no marketing and no sales team. Airfield managers showed other airfield managers, until strangers at an airfield management conference were talking about it. Today it is in daily use at multiple military airfields.
The same job on the civilian side
Civilian airports run the same loop every day: inspect, find, fix, verify, and prove it. The self-inspection, the discrepancy, the work order, the NOTAM, and the record an inspector asks for are the same jobs Chris ran for nineteen years.
“I thought I brought a different perspective, having done it for the last nineteen years.”
Why it works
One record, finding to fix
A discrepancy gets logged with a photo and its location on the map. Maintenance pulls it up on a phone, tablet, or computer, goes straight to the spot, makes the repair, and marks it complete. Operations verifies and closes it. Nobody draws a map.
Ready before the inspector arrives
Inspections, discrepancies, work orders, and their records stay in one place. When it's time to prove compliance, export the inspector package in one click, or give the inspector a dashboard before they walk in.
Works where the connection doesn’t
Glidepath installs on a phone, tablet, or laptop. Supported entries save on the device and sync when the connection comes back.
“As an airfield manager, you just want to do the job: identify the thing that is wrong, and let the rest of it take care of itself.”
What Glidepath does
Every airfield
Part 139 airports
Military airfields
What it doesn’t do: replace your leasing, billing, or citywide asset systems, or ask you to type the same thing twice.
See every module in detail: Airport modules · Military modules
Low risk to try
- Fast to start. A guided setup walks through runways, lighting, wildlife species, and modules. Getting to your first documented discrepancy takes less than an hour.
- Nothing to install. It runs in the browser and installs as an app on phones, tablets, and laptops.
- Your records stay yours. Export everything whenever you want, in CSV and PDF.
- Access enforced at the database. Permissions apply to every read and write, and airports never see each other's records. Hosted on AWS. Security and deployment
- Buy the way you already buy. We work with your contracting or purchasing office. FAQ
Pricing
Glidepath is priced for smaller airports, and every module is included at every size. Your price is set for your airport, with no nickel-and-diming for capabilities. Turn on the parts you use.
Who’s behind it
Chris Proctor
Founder
Chris has managed Air Force airfields for nineteen years, including multiple contingency deployments, and currently serves with the Air National Guard. He grew up in California and lives in Michigan with his wife and daughter. Glidepath is what comes next for him after uniform, not a side project. He answers the support email himself, and he will still be answering it in three years.
Tim Sunday
Head of Airfield Operations Solutions
An Air Force veteran who has managed military and civilian airfields, with experience as a firefighter, a licensed EMT, and an assistant airfield manager. Tim leads how Glidepath handles the day-to-day work of running an airfield, from operator feedback to airside driving and driver certification.
Preston Grew
Head of Training Solutions
An Air Force pilot trainee, former military airfield manager, and licensed civilian pilot. Preston builds Glidepath's training and the learning management system behind it: role-based courses for operations personnel, kept current with FAA requirements and industry standards.
Glidepath Technologies, LLC · Michigan · info@glidepathops.com
Built for the people who run the airfield.
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