Discover real testimonials from pilots, instructors, and schools sharing how SharpeAero’s clear, modern training materials improve learning and confidence.
Our Approach to Training
At SharpeAero, we make the practical, in-flight aspects of flight training faster and easier for student pilots, flight instructors, and flight schools through simple, focused, and concise resources. Our minimalist diagrams and easy-to-understand content support consistent, standardized training without unnecessary clutter and complexity.
By concentrating on practical skills over dense theory, our resources prioritize brevity, clarity, and real-world application. Every SharpeAero product is developed to meet — and exceed — Transport Canada’s practical requirements, helping flight schools and flight instructors deliver smarter, more consistent training to their students.
The SharpeAero Difference
BEYOND TRANSPORT CANADA STANDARDS.
SharpeAero’s content covers Transport Canada’s flight training requirements—and goes beyond. We don’t just prepare students to pass; we help them truly understand, retain, and apply their knowledge of real-world flying.
SIMPLE. FOCUSED. CONCISE.
Clean, visual, and practical, our materials cut through the clutter of traditional resources. With bullet-point clarity and intuitive design, students learn faster, instructors teach more easily, and everyone flies more consistently, confidently and competently.
DESIGNED FOR PILOTS, BY PILOTS
With experience as a flight instructor, airline pilot, and design strategist, our Founder brings a unique lens to flight training. SharpeAero blends deep aviation knowledge with intuitive learning design to create materials that truly work.
How it all began...
Aviation is a relatively old industry. Sometimes industries with a rich and long journey, like aviation, can get caught up in a particular way of thinking, using the same approaches to solving problems year in and year out. Naturally, a highly technical and engineering-like mindset has prevailed throughout aviation's history. So, it is no surprise that this complexity-focused paradigm has also found its way into many of the flight training resources available to student pilots and flight instructors in Canada today. This often leads to overcomplicated diagrams and lengthy content compared to what the flight training environment really needs. So, what if there was a better approach to creating flight training resources?
This is the question that our founder, Jesse Sharpe, asked himself as he began his own flight training journey. Having just left his career as a Design Strategist working in custom software consulting, he entered the world of aviation with fresh eyes and a different approach.
After years of feeling dissatisfied with the flight training resources available to Canadians, he decided it was time to put his past experience in design-thinking back to work. It was time to create flight training resources that really took into account the needs of those using the resources. That meant simple, focused and concise content to make flight training easier and faster.
Now SharpeAero proudly offers flight training resources for pilots, by pilots, which were all born from real-world experience. We offer foundational training materials required for the private and commercial pilot licences, the night rating, a variety of flight planning and organizational kneeboard templates, and 14 flight training posters adapted from our books.
Our FOunder
Jesse Sharpe is the founder of SharpeAero, an airline pilot and holder of an Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL), with a background as a former Flight Instructor. Combining his aviation training expertise with experience as a Design Strategist from his previous career and degree, Jesse is committed to creating clear, practical flight training resources that support students, instructors and flight schools.
He completed his flight training at Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre, earning awards for achieving the highest combined score on the commercial pilot licence written exam and flight test, as well as the highest score on the instructor rating written exam. In 2021, Jesse was recognized with Aviation Solutions’ Chief Flight Instructor’s Award for his work with SharpeAero.
Jesse holds a Bachelor of Knowledge Integration from the University of Waterloo, with a minor in Management Studies and a specialization in Collaborative Design. His background in design strategy informs SharpeAero’s focus on usability, innovation, and real-world application in aviation education.
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