The current CJP website (below) offers a wealth of information about all aspects of Citation ownership, including an active forum for members to discuss the latest operational tips and much more. However, it’s no secret that the existing site also has its issues and is far from cutting edge in several areas.
That will soon change, and definitely for the better. During a Saturday session at CJP 2025, Antoine Leblond offered a high-level overview of the new CJP website set to go live in the first quarter of next year.
Developed in collaboration with the TBM Owner and Pilots Association and using the same platform – but with functionality specific to the needs of CJP members and no commingling of data – the new CJP site will be built upon well-established platforms like WordPress and Discourse, offering greatly enhanced functionality and user interfaces throughout.
“We wanted a modern user experience with modern features,” he added. “Obviously, the key to our site is all the amazing content that’s in there. We want to make it much easier to find what you’re looking for in that sea of content; luckily, there are now amazing tools for that.”
Leblond walked attendees through a demonstration of the new member forum that, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) will give members the ability to ask specific questions to find the content they’re looking for more intuitively, and much faster, than is currently possible.
“You can also get a summary of the thread super quickly, if you don’t want to read through the whole thing,” Leblond added. “Often, certain questions get asked repeatedly on forums. Not only will the new site comb through that content to find the answer you’re looking for; it will also tell you if a topic has already been posted and show you those threads that sound really similar.”
The underlying tech infrastructure also allows for added functionality down the line, with Leblond noting the potential for members to review and check off their completed requirements for the Gold Standard Safety Award (GSSA) directly on the website, rather than emailing CJP staff. “This is probably not something we’re gonna have out of the gate, but it’s the kind of thing that’s super easy to build with WordPress,” he added.
Members will also be able to search the new site to find other CJP members; answers to common operational questions and issues; mentor pilots across the country; or practically any other answer Citation owners may seek. Leblond stressed that all existing website content, from every one of the more than 110,000 forum threads to all files contained in the Russ Meyer Citation Library, will port over to the new site.
“There is just so much knowledge there,” he added. “The large language models allows you to say, hey, ‘what does this symptom mean?’ or ‘What are the possible causes of this failure?’ and it will look across all that accumulated knowledge to find the answer.
“We have a treasure trove of data, and we wanted to make it easy and useful to find,” Leblond concluded. “And that’s the bottom line. It’s just going to be so much better.”