Pilot CV Pro

Save the CV you are editing as a named version, one per operator, and load any of them back. The library sits beside the working copy rather than replacing it, so the single CV the free builder holds is never touched by any of this: a failed save cannot damage the document you are actually editing, and if access ever lapses the library is hidden rather than destroyed. It holds up to 50 versions per account, and the save after the last slot asks you to delete one first rather than silently dropping the oldest.

The reason to keep them apart is the question you have three weeks later. Six tailored CVs look identical at a glance, and what you need to know is what you changed for this one. A raw comparison of the saved data answers that in a language nobody reads, so the diff is written in the form's own words: which field, what it said, what it says now, with both values shown. Summary changed is useless. Summary: this sentence became that sentence is the answer.

Two rules keep it honest. It never says which version is better and never suggests one, because that is your judgement and not a tool's. And a blank is treated as a real value: clearing a phone number is reported as removed rather than skipped, because an emptied contact field is exactly the thing worth catching before an application goes out.

The free builder keeps your CV in your own browser, which is private and also fragile: it is one device, one browser profile, and one cleared cache away from gone. Cloud save puts the versions on your account instead, so the CV you wrote on a laptop opens on a phone.

What crosses the wire is drawn as an explicit boundary rather than whatever the page happens to send. The payload is parsed by the same validator the local path uses, so a malformed save cannot put a shape into storage that the builder later fails to render. Every version is capped at 100 KB of data by the interface and 200 KB by the database itself, the second being the lock that fires only if something skipped the first.

Your photo stays on this device. Cloud-save requests leave it out, and the server strips it again before storage. Opening a cloud version retains the photo already on your current device; it does not sync across devices. Do not put health information in a version name or free-text field, because those fields are saved. Ordinary authenticated database access is restricted to the owner, with no administrator read policy. Privileged backend and database access remains possible for necessary operations or support.

Paste the text of a vacancy and the panel reports which of the requirements that advert actually states are met by your CV, which are not, and which it could not tell either way. It reads the advert with the same conservative parser the SkyStudy jobs board runs over an ingested vacancy, and reads your side with the same mapper that fills a job profile from a CV, which already refuses to read PICUS as PIC or multi-engine as turbine.

It is a checklist fact and it is never a percentage. A percentage reads as a probability of being invited, and nobody can know that: the operator decides who they invite, adverts leave things out, and a stated minimum is a filter rather than the decision. So there is no score, no ranking, no grade and no prediction anywhere in it, and the sentence saying so is rendered beside the result rather than in a footnote.

Two things sit under the count. The first is the keyword gap: words the advert uses that your CV does not, offered with the only sensible instruction, which is to add the ones you can defend in an interview and leave the rest, because a keyword you cannot evidence costs you more than a missing one. The second is the list of fields your CV could not fill, so the answer to an unknown is add your turbine hours and check one more, rather than a failure on a number you never entered.

Some airline portals accept a Word file and nothing else, and a PDF renamed to .docx is not a Word file. The DOCX export builds a genuine document in your browser: single column, headings that are really headings, the hours grid as a real table, in the ink colour you chose. It deliberately does not chase the printed layout, because a Word file reflows to whatever page size and font the recruiter's machine has, and a pixel copy would look broken everywhere except here.

The plain-text export is built for one specific box: the single textarea labelled paste your CV that strips every byte of formatting. So it contains no tabs, because a tab is the character those fields reliably mangle, no bullet characters from outside ASCII, and an hours table padded with spaces to a fixed width so the columns survive.

The portal answers pack is the one that saves an evening. An application portal asks the same set of questions every time, in a different order each time, on a form with a session timer, and you already typed every one of those answers into the builder. So the pack lays them out grouped the way the forms ask: about you, licence and ratings, ICAO English, flight time, eligibility and availability. One rule makes it trustworthy: a blank stays blank. An answer the builder does not hold comes back empty with a note saying where to find the real value, never with a plausible guess, because a wrong figure typed into an airline's form is a declaration you signed.

None of the three uploads anything to produce the file. They are built on your device, like the PDF.

Optional email reminders use the ICAO English and type-rating dates in a cloud-saved CV.

An ICAO English re-evaluation gets 183 days because it has to be scheduled with a provider. A type rating gets 90. A month always means the end of that month, so a certificate valid to March is valid through the thirty-first and is not reported as expired a month early. An ICAO English Level 6 is listed as having no re-evaluation date rather than as a missing one.

Nothing is ever derived. A type rating's remaining validity cannot be read off its issue date once it has been revalidated, so a date you did not enter is reported as blank and never filled in with a guess. The email itself is opt-in and off by default, switchable off in the same screen that turned it on, and carries only your name, your own label for the version and the credential in words. No licence number, no phone number and no other CV field is in it.

Command puts the hours first, with the headline figures in the header and tight spacing, which is the layout a long logbook needs. Modern is a single column under a solid header band, for a direct application that a person will read on screen. Both are additions to the two free layouts rather than replacements for them.

The three font pairings are Classic, which is serif throughout in the traditional European style, Modern, which is grotesque throughout and the safest for parsers, and Humanist, which sets sans headings over a serif body for more contrast. One rule governs all three: every stack is built only from faces already installed on the machine doing the printing, so nothing is fetched at print time. A webfont that has not finished loading when the print dialog opens produces a document set in the fallback, which means you see one thing and the recruiter receives another.

US Letter is not cosmetic either. Letter is 215.9 by 279.4 mm and A4 is 210 by 297, so Letter is about 6 mm wider and 18 mm shorter. An A4 document printed on Letter loses the bottom of the page, and on a one-page CV the bottom of the page is the referees line or your most recent role. The same real dimensions drive both the print stylesheet and the Word file, so the two cannot disagree about what Letter means.