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Check this link out, now you can see anyone's New Pilots license on
the Internet - including your own! I just searched for mine and there it
was...picture and all!
Click on the link below then enter your name, city and state to see
if yours is on file.
http://www.license.shorturl.com/
Mirrors of my web site:
http://whitts.nn.cl/
http://whitts.alioth.net
Aircraft
Aircraft performance numbers for AOPA members
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/aircraft/tb9.html
AOPA's Airport eDirectory is downloadable in part or whole or available on a
CD-ROM
$7 at 1-800 USA-AOPA or as member renewal benefit.
A hands on explanation of how to handle a brake and tire change on your own.
http://www.globalair.com/discussions/georges_hangar/article.asp
Selected facilities exist as repositories of advanced knowledge,
to train GA pilots. Glass Cockpit info.
CGAR, (www.cgar.org)
Weather
Look on the bottom of this page for an advisory plotting chart and other
info:
http://aviationweather.gov/info.html#advsry
For quick visualization of the airmets, see
http://aviationweather.gov/awc/awc-airmets.html
Other related info:
http://aviationweather.gov/gif/fa-regions.png
http://aviationweather.gov/gif/FA-areas.gif or
http://aviationweather.gov/gif/FA-areas.pdf|
ADDS
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/projects/adds/airmets/
)
Pre-Solo flight test from Aviation Safety Research
http://wwwl.open.org/-thomas/asr/presolo.htm
After ten years at the old location, it has been necessary to find a new home
for my web documents. The new URL for the book _See How It Flies_ is
http://www.av8n.com/how/
Runway Safety
http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/acs/ac-idx.htm
Risk Perception and Risk tolerance in aircraft Pilots
www.cami.jccbi.gov/aam-400A/Abstracts/2002/FULL%20TEXT/0217.pdf
Master web site of technical info on flight Beautiful site full of good info. (Australian Ultralight )
http://www.auf.asn.au/groundschool/umodule2.html#stuff
info@mail.auf.asn.au
Aviation Safety Research Pre-Solo Test
http://www.open.org/~thomas/asr/presolo.htm
The McCauley information is located under "Preventing Damage".
http://www.mccauley.textron.com/prop/prop-tech/pg06care.html
I would check if someone in the Socata users group at
They also have all kinds of information about this airplane
http://www.socata.org/
C-150 and C-172 lChecklists
http://www.aquax.ca/fly/files
Load Factor
http://142.26.194.131/aerodynamics1/
Shock Cooling
www.lycoming.textron.com/support/publications/avoid_sudden_cooling_your_engine.html
www.lycoming.textron.com/support/publications/avoid_sudden_cooling_your_engine.html
See: Service Instruction 1094. From the URL:
Cardinal
http://www.cardinalflyers.com/
Royson Parsons
Editor Cessna 150-152 Pilot Magazine
P.O. Box 1917
Atascadero, CA 93422
805-461-1958
www.cessna150-152club.com
Logbook, Weight and Balance
http://www.geocities.com/cessna734ka.
Medicals
Someone mentioned the web site Virtual Flight Surgeon's web site at
http://www.aviationmedicine.com/index.html.
http://www.aopa.org/members/databases/medical/druglist.cfm
http://www.aviationmedicine.com/meds.htm
http://leftseat.com/medications.htm
Special Issuance Authorization Letter of Interpretation,"
http://www.aopa.org/members/resources/medical.html
List of commonly prescribed medications acceptable to the FAA. ( http://www.aopa.org/members/databases/medical/druglist.cfm
).
VOR Trainer
VOR section on:
http://members.home.net/roye2001/flighttraining/index.htm
http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/
Java Based
http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/
VOR navigation,
http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/
Online vor tutorials
http://www.campbells.org/Airplanes/VOR/vor.html
http://www.visi.com/~mim/nav/
"VOR Advisory Plotting Chart Reference Points". Try either of the
following URLs for charts of these points in a variety of formats.
http://aviationweather.noaa.gov/info.html
http://aviationweather.noaa.gov/awc/advsry/advsrypltn.html
ASF RELEASES 2000 NALL REPORT
http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/00nall.pdf
Flight Planners
http://www.aeroplanner.com
Webmaster of aeroplanner?
munsellm@my-deja.com
http://www.fltplan.com.
www.flightplan.com or 1-800-515-6900
www.aeroplanner.com
It is free. We are not charging or requiring e-mail addresses.
http://www.webexams.com
http://www.fltplan.com/open.htm
GA pilots will legally be able to use flight information from the
approved aviation Web sites. See
( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2002/02-4-069x.html
X-country Planning with Palm
http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=87051620020914110231&prodID=7184
The new IFR Flight Planning / Enroute form is available at
http://www.dauntless-soft.com (aka http://www.faatest.com)
http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/Freebies/VFRFlightPlanner/index.html
Airnav allows you search within X miles of a given location for all
airports that meet whatever criteria.... Go to:
http://www.airnav.com/airports/search.html
There is a program that IMHO beats all the ones you've mentioned - It's free
and much more feature-rich. It's called CoPilot, developed by Laurie Davis and
the open database for it generated by Paul Tomblin, our own r.a.* folk.
http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/CoPilot/
Aircraft Colors on Flight Plans
Access the service's main menu. Select "flight plans." Then choose
the "file a domestic" flight plan. Once there, Box 16 ("color of
aircraft") has a drop-down menu with a complete listing of the proper
aircraft color abbreviations.
http://plan.aopa.org/duats.cgi
avigation log (called a "flight planning form")
(http://www.dauntless-soft.com)
Click on Planning, and look under 'Navigation Log'
http://www.geocities.com/sridhar007/flying.html
http://www.digav.com/update-planner.htm
www.digAV.com
ww w.airnav.com for fuel costs.
http://www.faatest.com
http://www.deja.com/
Excel flight planner.
http://home.att.net/~jm.price
http://www.aeroplanner.com is
excellent
http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/Freebies/VFRFlightPlanner/index.html
http://home-fires.com/flight/
EAA Flight Planner
--Free to CFIs
--www.NAFInet.org
--Click on EAA Flight Planner, register, log on Flight Planner
--Files, stores and retrieves flight plans w/wo DUATS
--View and print IFR approach plates
--Displays flight on interactive sectional chart
--Flight planning 'Wizard'
--Auto-routes for pilot preferences
--Checks NOTAMS, TFTs and MCAs on route
--Weather check
--Weight and Balance
--Multiple aircraft profile storage.
Weather reports and images to your cell phone and PDA
www.wxnotice.com
Check out the track log. It updates every minute on the last flight of the
tail number!
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N1943L
Actual radar picture. How about
http://mobile.srh.noaa.gov/ ?
There is a WingX User manual. it can be found at:
http://download.hiltonsoftware.com/manuals/WingX-User-Manual.pdfAirports of the U.S. with Instrument Approaches
http://navaid.com/GPX/
WingX Browser Beta. will display color-coded METARs, TAFs, winds aloft,
temperature aloft, trends etc. Take a look at the screen shots (landscape mode
too):
http://www.hiltonsoftware.com/Beta.html
Change address
www.caricatureaircraftpictures.com
Time
http://www.thetimenow.com
Why Checklists?
http://www.engr.orst.edu/~HFE/Checklist/accidents.html
All sorts of useful formulas...
http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm
Live ATC
www.cessna140.com
www.atcmonitor.com Live audio feed
of Atlanta Center watching over ATL Macey arrival
AIM
And even if you don't have one, you still can read it on the web.
http://www.faa.gov/ATPubs/AIM/index.htm
"Pilot's Club"
Join for free. You'll find all the manuals, and a couple of simulators.
http://www.bendixking.com
Gleim's website and download all the scanned charts (assuming : you *want* to
download all the PDF images) then print them out for : your convenience while
studying. Since the legend printed on the images : has the chart scale, you
don't need to worry about the distances matching what's on your plotter.
However, the compass will come in handy.
Gleim has a link to my website.
You can order the current booklet (FAA-CT-8080-2B?) from the US Government
bookstore (in Kansas City since they others won't cooperate) for US$6.00 by
calling 1-816-765-2256 from 10am to 9 pm Central Time. The title is "Computerised
Testing Supplement for Recreational and Private Pilot".
IFR Checkrides
Field Morey's West Coast Adventures 608 836-1711
See Wally Roberts's excellent IFR refresher articles
http://www.wallyroberts.com/articles/jul96.pdf
http://www.wallyroberts.com/articles/nov96.pdf
The old FAA Instrument Flying Handbook AC61-27C has some good drawings of the
inside of instruments. Check out Chapter 4.
http://avstop.com/AC/Instument/
IFR Proficiency Endorsement
FAR 61.37 (e)(2)
Full account of my checkride(s) are at
http://home.socal.rr.com/bakst/Flying.htm
-
http://home.earthlink.net/~kbakst/Flying.htm
FAR knowledge for the upcoming checkride....
http://nasdac.faa.gov/internet/
I put a checklist on my instructor stuff page. Makes it easy to make sure the
student has
everything necessary for the checkride...
(http://home.att.net/~jm.price/instructor.htm)
Don't forget there's a lot of other useful stuff on my general aviation page at
http://home.att.net/~jm.price/fly.htm
Training
You can download the Air Force's Instrument Flight Procedures manual:
http://afpubs.hq.af.mil/pubfiles/af/11/afman11-217v1/afman11-217v1.pdf
and
http://afpubs.hq.af.mil/pubfiles/af/11/afman11-217v2/afman11-217v2.pdf
http://roye.home.netcom.com/flyingTraining.htm
American Flyers site
http://www.americanflyers.net/chartroom/
FAA Instrument Training Handbook
http://avstop.com/AC/Instument/index.html
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTER:
.From our main index page follow the (Yellow Push Buttons) link to STAR - our
New Scenery Directory area.
You'll find "ALL" towards the bottom of the page.
http://www.erols.com/tdg/
PPL groundschool online at
http://www.aviationspot.com
Field Moreys IFR Program
( http://www.ifrwest.com/
)
A good source of information on charts is the "Aeronautical
Chart User's Guide" ( http://www.aopa.org/members/files/chart_guide/
.
There is a simulation of the scene and the tower audio as a real video movie on
this page (among some others):
http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2000/incursion/incur_video.htm
Aaron Singers foundation for funds for young wantabe pilots.
www.blueyonder
FAA's Advisory Circulars
(no longer printed)Try :
FAA test questions
http://afs600.faa.gov/data/airmanknowledge/parbankinternet.txt
http://www.webexams.com
http://w3.one.net/~kip/faatest.html
http://www.dauntless-soft.com
http://www.faa-test.com/TESTY/index.html
http://www.pocketTest.com
http://www.pilotpal.com/PilotPrep/pilotpal.html
Exams
www.risingup.com. Their questions
don't have as many errors as webexams.com.
Here are some sites that have software to practice the exams, the first
one is a PDA solution.
http://www.pocketTest.com
http://www.pilotpal.com/PilotPrep/pilotpal.html
http://www.webexams.com
http://w3.one.net/~kip/faatest.html
http://www.faa-test.com/TESTY/index.html
Good site listing PPL exam questions...
http://www.flyppl.com
PPL groundschool online at
http://www.aviationspot.com
Site listing PPL exam questions...
http://www.flyppl.com
http://w3.one.net/~kip/faatest.html
http://www.avweb.com/articles/eyeofexp/eoe0002.html
http://w3.one.net/~kip/faatest.html
http://www.faatest.com
http://w3.one.net/~kip/faatest.html
www.stephenames.com/flying/flying.html
http://www.webexams.com
www.pilotpal.com
All the rest of the Airman Testing information is at
http://afs600.faa.gov./630.asp?sub=630&lev=Amn.
Practical Test Standards
Latest version of PTS
Getting Changes to Practical Test Standards
http://www.mmac.jccbi.gov/afs/afs600
The govt internet site that has the adobe downloadable PTS's
http://afs600.faa.gov/search.asp?myFolder=practicalteststandard&Query=&sub=630&lev=
Amn&title=Practical+Test+Standards
There was a subtle change in the meaning of the white arc between the older and
newer planes. http://www.omen.com/f/n2469r.html
www.mmac.jccbi.gov/afs/afs600/akt.html#pts
Latest changes in PTS
www.mmac.jccbi.gov/afs/afs600/akt.htm#rc
The FAA chose this one as a sample of their "plain language" AC
initiative:
http://www.faa.gov/language/accold.pdf
The current test question banks are now available directly from the FAA
here:
http://AFS600.faa.gov/search.asp?myFolder=airmanknowledge&Query=&sub=630&lev=
Amn&title=Airman+Knowledge+Test+Item+Banks (Browser cookie
support is required)
You may find some information here:
http://www.gleim.com/Aviation/Updates/
The CFI PTS is at
http://afs600.faa.gov/data/practicalteststandard/faa-s-8081-6a.pdf.
Mentor Managing Editor
glaslo@compuserve.com
Member News (Instructor publication)
P.O. Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
Aviation Education and Technology Resources for Teachers
CDE Press Sales Office
P.O. Box 271
Sacramento, CA 95812-0271
Instructional error prevention
www.epifortraining.com
Instructor's site
www.creativeteachingsite.com
How People Learn, full text of book at
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html
Written Test Site
PilotPal.com.
http://www.avweb.com/articles/eyeofexp/eoe0002.html
Sources
The web address for the FAA Annual Inspection Checklist
http://www.navioneer.org/Information/rampin2.pdf
All ADs since 1940
www.airweb.faa.gov/rgl
Annual inspection video for owners from Approach Aviation, $40
www.approachaviatioon.com
Here are lots of online services as well as downloadable utilities,
shareware and freeware too.
http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Aviation/Resources/
You can get a FREE AIM complete with updates from the FAA. The web
address is
http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/index.htm.
AOPA Handbook for Pilots
www.aopa.org/members/files/handbook
Airport Diagrams
Try http://www.airways.com/
These are in self-extracting zip format for each state, and are a mixture of
NACO taxi diagrams and state published diagrams.
http://www.razorsedgesoft.com/diagrams.htm
For UK airfields.
http://www.ais.org.uk/uk_aip/pdf/ad/aipad2.pdf
www.airnav.com for stops with reported fuel
www.aopa.org for airport and taxiway diagrams
Airport diagrams for anyone to download.
http://www.razorsedgesoft.com/diagrams.htm
About aviation formulas.
http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.html
Online source for the airplane flying handbook.
FAA-H-8083-3 (newest rev) or the older 61-21A book.
http://avstop.com/AC/
Commenting on FAA notice of proposed rulemakings (NPRM's)
Click once on the ARM icon
Under 'Participating in FAA Rulemakikng, click once on the bullet entitled,
"Documents Open for Comments (NPRM's, Notices, Request for Comments)."
http://www.faa.gov/avr/armhome.htm
Historic Aviation books.
www.historicaviation.com
Good mountain flying info at
www.mountainflying.com
--HORTON STOL CRAFT http://www.airsport.com/hortninc.htm
of Wellington,
KS, 800/835-2051 or 620/326-2241,
--KNOTS 2U LTD http://www.knots2u.com/
of Burlington, WI, 262/763-5100,
--MAPLE LEAF AVIATION LTD of BRANDON, MB, CANADA, 204/728-7618, and
--MET-CO-AIRE http://www.metcoaire.com/
of Fullerton, CA, 800/814-2697
or 714/521-0871.
Adam Halop, CPA Tech Staff mailto:adam.halop@cessna.org
A webcam picture could be worth a thousand words of METARs.
http://akweathercams.faa.gov/
Just call +1 (877) 269-2967, and key in the airport identifier when
requested.
It requires listening to a commercial, but it's a quick and easy way to get an
AWOS report.
> http://flighttraining.aopa.org/members/flight_bag/pdfs/fss.pdf
Link checker for website
Btw theres software out there that is freeware that
will actually do a link check on the website. My favorite site for the software
is either http://www.nonags.com
or http://www.sourceforge.net
Source to get the "end of evening civil
twilight" and "beginning of morning civil twilight"
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html
Palm:
The applications that I'm considering are:
Fly v5.05 from GPS Pilot
Version 1.53 of Palm Flight Buddy from Apexx
Aerobatics
( http://www.aerobaticsource.com
).
Lesson Plans
http://home.att.net/~jm.price
If you want to know where the identifiers are, just go to
http://www.airnav.com/airports
and enter the identifier in. It'll tell you where the airport is.
Feel free to copy it, use it, abuse it, etc. It does calculate things like night
landings in last 90 days and other currency items. There is an MS-Excel logbook
at
http://www.stanwyck.com/LogBook.xls
You may find it useful to invest around $20 on an Australian invented plotter
(big country Australia and easy to get lost in) that solve the most troublesome
aspects of visual navigation, off-course heading corrections and unexpected
diversions.
http://www.pilot-navigation-aids.com.
For anyone interested in more information on optics for pilots, visit our
website at www.shieldseyewear.com.
In our website
http://www.aeroplanner.com,
we store the 'actual' location surveyed in the database. The actual lat/lon for
the airport.
Here's a good article on the topic of Scud Running:
http://www.avweb.com/articles/lounge/tpl0026.html
See for a most erudite discussion of the turn back to runway after engine
failure.
http://web.usna.navy.mil/~dfr/possible.html
Cockpit Lights
This "Beam n Read can be ordered at the following site
http://www.std.com/asf1/BNR.html
I have a couple hundred hours night using a lip light, I wouldn't give mine up.
http://www.wings-aviation.com/LipLights.html
Light Sources
http://www.navaire.com/
http://www.chiefaircraft.com
Live Radio links:
I strongly suggest that you listen to this conversation in its entirety
http://www.cyberair.com/tower/trans/displt.html
http://www.multiweb.net/~mdn/atc.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/2376/pghradio.html#SCANNERLINKS
http://realserver.brooklyn.cuny.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/jfk.rm
http://www.deltahawks.org/
http://www.citeweb.net/airline/tower.htm
http://www.totavia.com/BCaviation/atc.htm
this one has a bunch on one site...
http://www.freeweb.pdq.net/dino/liveatc.htm
Weather and Flying
www.aeroplanner.com
Try here for weather contractions:
http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/info/domestic_contractions.html
Weather Study Source
Go to private pilot exams and then click meteorology. It will give you four
met exams and you can't move on the the exam number 2 until you score 90pervent
or better on one. It doesn't give you the answers - it marks your paper and
tells you what to study. You have to join but it's free.
http://www.aerotraining.com/exam_gif/examgd.htm
Weather site
http://adds.awc-kc.noaa.gov/projects/adds/index.html
www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/awc/aviation_weather_center.html
www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/awc/cwsu-corner.html
Engine Operation
www.lycoming.textron.com/support.
Dumb things that happen on the radio:
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/callback_nf.htm#2000If you
want to know where the airport identifiers are, just go to
http://www.airnav.com/airports
Enter the identifier in. It'll tell you where the airport is.
There is an MS-Excel logbook at
http://www.stanwyck.com/LogBook.xls
Australian invented plotter that solve the most troublesome aspects of visual
navigation, off-course heading corrections and unexpected diversions.
http://www.pilot-navigation-aids.com.
For anyone interested in more information on optics for pilots, visit our
website at
www.shieldseyewear.com.
I put a checklist on my instructor stuff page. Makes it easy to make sure the
student has
everything necessary for the checkride...
http://home.att.net/~jm.price/instructor.htm
Other useful stuff at
http://home.att.net/~jm.price/fly.htm
Rules of thumb
http://prestwick.simplenet.com/aviation/rulethmp.htm
http://www.flightinfo.com/html/rules_.shtm
Air sickness
Uses electric shock and relatively expensive. Good track record.
www.reliefband.com
I've created a PDF version of the navigation log form I used for planning
cross-country flights. It's not exactly the "original" but it should
serve it's purpose. Find it here:
http://www.remote.org/frederik/projects/aviation/navlog.html
Vibrating watch/timer
http://www.watchminder.com/ $80
http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/index.html
MARV GOLDEN DISCOUNT SALES
http://www.avweb.com/sponsors/marvgold
Charts
http://mapbase.pair.com/
Palm Pilot
http://www.palmgear.com/
FREE Aviation Weather for Palm Pilot and PocketPC!!
http://www.cupitt.com
Here is a palm app I just found which basically puts the AF/D in your palm!
http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=001CM
Cessna vs Piper
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~roy/flying/cessna-archer.pdf
|Coriolis effect
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~dvandom/Edu/coriolis.html
15-20% of fatal stall/spin accidents occurred while dual instruction was being
given.
http://www.richstowell.com/stalspin.htm
Aviation Fuel:
http://www.prime-mover.org/Engines/GArticles/octane.html
www.airnav.com has lat/long for all
the airports in their database, and they
have most private airports.
A web site where some guy in Australia journaled most of his lessons. He was
very humorous as well as detailed
It's called "Andrew's Aerodrome",
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~apearce/ .
or
http://www.icct.net/~dyls/flying.html )
Professor Stephen W. Shure, Department of Aerospace Technology, Indiana State
University at,
http://web.indstate.edu
Url is indstate.edu and hit the link to
distance education and then to any of 6 courses I just put online-
AST-141,143,241,243,245 and 441. Guest-guest gives entry
Try this web page it has a couple of handy files that provide a complete
decoding guide.http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso12/metar.htm
The white light flashlight at:
http://www.photonlight.com/
Also one of the best downloadable/printable sources is "Aviation Weather
Services AC 00-45E" which you can get from:
http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/afs400/
If you are interested in Lycoming engines, consider this link from Lycoming:
http://www.lycoming.textron.com/support/publications/lindex.html
http://www.lycoming.textron.com/support/publications/do_not_use_automotive_gas_in_aircraft.html
www.partsbase.com
Auctions for everything aviation!
Breath of Life
White Mountain Products group
PO Box 95 Dyer Nevada 89010
$159.95 Oxygen kit.
www.wmountain.com
CCR Website
ccrairport.org
FAA contact for Lost Certificates:
405 954-3261
Aircraft Information
Plane & Pilot Magazine's on-line site has a lot of spec information:
http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/content/specs/index.html
Aircraft performance spreadsheet
http://www.1st-of-pryor.com/Performance1.htm
Trade-a-Plane has "spec sheets" that describe many of the various
types at
http://www.trade-a-plane.com.
To find the owner of an aircraft by N number
http://www.avweb.com/toc/database.html (but you
have to register)
http://www1.drive.net/evird.acgi$pass*6858102!_h-www.landings.com/_landings/pages/search.html
1925/1935 aeroplane (England)
www.marmenor.es.org
his is the address:for cartoon aircraft
www.fsvo.com/caricatures
A MS Word checklist. For example,
For C152, click on, 5310H, then click on Files to Download
For C172, click on, 737WF then click on Files to Download
For PA28-161, 81024, then click on Files to Download
http://www.wvfc.org/aircraft.html
NOTE: For more details on how the STC worked,
<http://avweb.com/n/?06a>.
The only, book on Magnetos).
http://www.sacskyranch.com/eng101.htm
There are v-speeds at:
www.aviationist.com/show-v-speeds.html
Airports|
Anyone interested in old airfields should take a look at Paul's
http://www.members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/
http://skyvector.com/
Type in your airport identifier or fix, and it will zoom in to your airport.
Click on the map, hold the left mouse button down and you can scroll to your
hearts content. Only limit I saw, is it does not cross sectional charts. I live
at the very bottom of the Memphis sectional, so I cannot traverse from the
Memphis sectional to the New Orleans sectional through scrolling.
Allen
IFR Take a looks at Seattle_avionics.com_SmartPlates
The plates are free and the software has excellent plate management and
printing.
http://seattleavionics.com/default.asp
Suggest HP TC1100
For local airports, I use
http://usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?sta=KGYY&model=avn&state=IN&Submit=Get+Forecast
It's an online airport directory .--
http://www.airstripamerica.com
Many private airports are in the FAA database. Pop an address in and specify
"private" airports. Select the
airport name to jump to AirNav's great interface to the airport's record. It
should include info about the owner
and manager (typicallly the same for the small private airports).
http://lairds.org/Kyler/flying/flights/nearby_airports
Type in address it tells you the nearest 5 airports as
well as ground transportation options.
http://lairds.com/Kyler/flying/flights/nearby_airports
Airport locations in
http://home.att.net/~rdluce/gps.html
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ivancich/airspace-matrix.html
It's the Civil Air Patrol's photo database.. very handy, although most of
the pictures are a bit too "close" to help with spotting from a
distance.
http://www.capnhq.gov/airfield/default.asp
Waypoint data base:
ftp://164.214.2.65/pub/dafif/dafif_0106_ed6/
or
http://www.geocities.com/asarangan/garmin.html
Satellite pictures of airports
www.terraserver.com.
http://www.airnav.com/airports/
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un9v/atm/ase.html
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/flying/flights/nearby_airports
http://www.aeroplanner.com
http://www.aerochart.com?
They also have a Java pattern simulation that was interesting to look at
http://www.airparts.com/java/simulator.html
Old Airports
A collection of old photos with text/history of former airports throughout
the
country - searchable by state.
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
OOPS!
:A large collection of aviation pictures related OOPS occasions
http://www.micom.net/oops/
Taxi Diagrams
330 busiest airports with full-page diagram.
http://aopaa.org/asi/taxi
Microsoft's (free) TERRASERVER can be a big help with airport diagrams/pictures
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=14&T=1&X=158&Y=1625&Z=10&W=2
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.asp?S=13&T=1&X=317&Y=3251&Z=10&W=2
www.faa.gov/asos/awos/htm
www.adds.awc-lkc.noaa.gov/project/adds/pireps
www.rap.ucar.edu/weather
www.dot.state.tx.us
Spins:
Spins from the tail and the cockpit of a 152 trainer.
http://www.mindspring.com/~jjohnson14/vidclips.htm
Live Radio
From our main index page http://www.erols.com/tdg/
follow the (Yellow Push Buttons) link to STAR - our New Scenery Directory area.
You'll find "ATCC" towards the bottom of the page. Enjoy!
Centennial Airport (APA) ATC feed at:
http://www.airparts.com/tower.html
http://www.erols.com/tdg/ follow the (Yellow Push Buttons) link to
STAR - our New Scenery Directory area. You'll find "ATCC" towards the
bottom of the page. Enjoy!
ATC while on the Net...
http://www.erols.com/tdg
From our main index page follow the (yellow) push style buttons to: LINKS
-
The Centennial Airport web site is at
http://www.centennial-airport.com/. photos of the
runways useful while listening to the ATC feed.
Distances:
Tables for the lat/lon of my home airport, of both sunset/rise and twilight,
from the US Naval Observatory http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/.
Distance of airports
www.landings.com
http://www.indo.com/distance/
http://www.trump.net.au/airworthy/ or email me at:
airworthy@trump.net.au
http://www.mapblast.com/
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/flying/flights/nearby_airports
Weather
Aviation weather with graphics
http://adds.awc-kc.noaa.gov/projects/adds/
.
Plain text and garble versions
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/ .
For quick visualization of the airmets, see
http://aviationweather.gov/awc/awc-airmets.html
Other related info:
http://aviationweather.gov/gif/fa-regions.png
http://aviationweather.gov/gif/FA-areas.gif or
http://aviationweather.gov/gif/FA-areas.pdf
"VOR Advisory Plotting Chart Reference
Points". Try either of the
following URLs for charts of these points in a variety of formats.
http://aviationweather.noaa.gov/info.html
http://aviationweather.noaa.gov/awc/advsry/advsrypltn.html
I like http://www.enflight.com.
It's still available for free. Dave
Forecast weather - I like http://adds.aviationweather.gov/.
Finally, there's a free web site that does tracking of IFR flights and
maps and graphs and whatnot:
http://flightaware.com/
IFR Plates
http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/d_tpp
http://www.seattleavionics.com/sp_default.shtml
MyAirplane.com offers IAPs by airport as a PDF file
http://www.myairplane.com/databases/approach/index.php
http://aviationweather.gov/info.html#advsry
ADDS
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/projects/adds/airmets/
)
Pre-Solo flight test from Aviation Safety Research
http://wwwl.open.org/-thomas/asr/presolo.htm
Risk Perception and Risk tolerance in aircraft Pilots
www.cami.jccbi.gov/aam-400A/Abstracts/2002/FULL%20TEXT/0217.pdf
METAR
Defines the U.S. METAR code format,
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso12/metar.htm
http://www.dodgenet.com/~weavers/afss/metar.htm
http://www.dodgenet.com/~weavers/afss/
Aviation weather with graphics
http://adds.awc-kc.noaa.gov/projects/adds/
.
www/mws/noaa.gov
Winds aloft site.
http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/awc/awc-fd.html
Weather, flight planning, filing service, graphics
www.flightbrief.com
www.accuweather.com
A good website which talks about relative and absolute humidity, dewpoint,
etc, is
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whumcalc.htm.
Worked this dewpoint subject to the bone:
http://www.deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=645452435
Now as you zoom around on our maps, we provide a link to the closest radar
image!
http://www.aerochart.com/mapping/weather/index.cfm
http://www.boatchart.com/mapping/weather/index.cfm
I have a form for a weather brief. It's in PDF format.
http://www.wizardofdraws.com/wxbrief.html
Weather calculator for density altitude
www.srh.noaa.gov/elp
www.awc-kc.noaa.gov
www.accuweather.com
wwwl.nws.noaa.gov/
www.noaa.gov/
www.weather.com/homepage.html
wwwl.rainorshine.com/
ww2.weatherbug.com/aws
www.weather.com/aviation/maps/us_wind_cur
ASOS Explained.
:http://www.faa.gov/asos/faq.htm
Map with PIREPS
http://adds.awckc.noaa.gov/projects/adds/pireps
Eyewall of hurricane Hugo
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hugo1.asp
through
http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hugo9.asp
You can get them at
http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/awc/aviation_weather_center.html
A shareware program to plot up the METAR data Digital Atmosphere. It's at
http://www.weathergraphics.com/ .
www.faa.gov/awos/asos
www.nws.noaa.gov
wwwnrlmry.navy.mil/sat_products.html.
www.aopa.org/members/wx
www.cyberaair.csm/tower/faa/jtnn/student/chapter1.html
All about AWOS
http://www.tor.ec.gc.ca/readac/refguide/chap1e.htm
Pilot Information
Dudley
One such site,
http://migman.master.com/texis/master/search/?q=dudley+henriques&s=SS
has
http://www.awc-kc.noaa.gov/overlay/prod-olay-1img.html
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/projects/adds
Here's some guidance from Lycoming.
http://www.lycoming.textron.com/support/publications/leaning_lycoming_engines.html
The following page is intended to help orient first-time passengers
http://www.drizzle.com/~davidh/flying/letsfly.html
Make this web site
a part of your monthly reads.
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/callback_nf.htm
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/callback_issues/cb_306.htm
Radar Facilities
This list contains both the business and Watch Desk telephone numbers.
www.atlasaviation.com/FAA%20Phone%20Numbers/FAA_Phone_Numbers.htm
Just call +1 (877) 269-2967, and key in the airport identifier when
requested. It requires listening to a commercial, but it's a quick and easy way
to get an AWOS report.
> http://flighttraining.aopa.org/members/flight_bag/pdfs/fss.pdf
Load Factor
http://142.26.194.131/aerodynamics1
Written Test Sites:
http://w3.one.net/~kip/faatest.html
http://www.webexams.com/
http://www.mywrittenexam.com/mwe/
http://www.freefaatestsprep.com/
DE Site full of info
www.checkrides.com
A $6K cross-country for IFR rating
Field Morey
1-888IFR-WEST
Here's an excellent site for formulae;:
http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm
http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm
Follow the links to Possum Creek.
Go to www.mountainflying.com
How fast is your airplane?
www.reacomp.com
Go to www.inflightusa.com,click
on "Features",and read "Slips With
Flaps-An In-Depth Look".
http://www.inflightusa.com/feature/o.features.1.html
The E6B
http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm
There's a GPS manual and simulator here.\
http://www. The Control Vision
GPS website is
http://www.controlvision.com
forvfr.com/download.htm
I have made a number of checklists on aviation page.
http://www.mariash.com/familylinks.html
Interesting stuff about ditching:
http://www.equipped.com/ditchingmyths.htm
Logbook Questions
www.propilot.com/doc
Certification Records
http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.htm
search for "N" numbers or certificated pilots.
www.landings.com to
Quiz on airport signage
www.faa.gov/ats/ato/ato102
Lapboard
http://eseelig.ms.nwu.edu/e-drive/flying/lapboard.gif
Electronic AFD is now available includes airports and navaids of US and
territories.
http://www.penguinair.com
Checklists for the PA28-180 and PA28-236 and weight and balance
calculators
http://home.att.net/~jm.price
That "dang' flight computer?
http://home.cdsnet.net/~jessek/e6b.htm
General Info
Most for the Money
http://seattleavionics.com/default.asp
Has Everything You Could Want and Use
http://www.aviationsafety.com/
http://www.pilotpointer.com/
Site that has the equations for wind correction angle, density altitude
correction, etc.?
Try this: http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm
Pictorials about angle of attack and stall.. -- animated.
http://www.diam.unige.it/~irro/lecture_e.html
Here's a really good tutorial.
http://www.campbells.org/Airplanes/VOR/vor.html
"Pilot's Pocket Decoder" Barnes and Noble acronyms in it.
http://www.mindspring.com/~av8r1stop/index.html
Aviation flightplanning formulas on-line, by the way, the "Aviation
Formulary",
http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm
The article is about landing on grass.
http://www.ais.org.uk/uk_aip/pdf/aic/4P120.pdf,
You'll need Adobe Acrobat to read it.
PDF format briefing also some PDF format checklists
http://www.mariash.com/cary.html
Go to the aviation page and click on the passenger briefing link.
Landings
3-part series called "On Landings" some years ago. They're reprinted
at
www.cyberair.com/tower/faa/app/index.html
Ground reference info:
http://www.avstop.com/AC/FlightTraingHandbook/Chapter11.html
Logging Time
There is an article on how to log time properly at:
http://www.studentpilot.net
Look under "Articles" in the left hand menu.
Wooden model planes with moveable controls
http://www.avshop.com/catalog/product.html?productid=5604&categoryid=259
Preparation for the Written
http://www.mywrittenexam.com/mwe/
>
Andrew Sarangan posted an article on situational awareness at
http://131.238.38.204/~sarangan/aviation/articles/vor-article.pdf
http://www.anywheremap.com/ for a
link, and be sure to visit
The forums and read through them before also a logbook program to buy
From England
Click on http://www.london-morning-paper.co.uk/FT/index.html
to read the latest edition Also..
Review on the new Just Flight software called Traffic 2005
http://www.london-morning-paper.co.uk/reviews/html/traffic_2005.html
Log Books
This is a more basic one
http://www.flightlvl.com/
http://www.g-point.com/xpcity/fms2/
http://www.g-point.com/xpcity/logbook/
http://www.skymarktechnologies.com/
for both the PC and iPAQ. Great
logbook, best I've seen.
Equations
http://www.INFOequipt.com/
There are some on-line calculators available at
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html
Cockpit Resource Management Training books
703 487=4650
Teaching Text $17 Student text $23
Protocol as on the Garmin 295. I am downloading the demo at. The cdrom is quoted
at $49.00
www.razorsedgesoft.com/airplan.htm
This company also sells wireless GPS.
http://www.teletype.com
Endorsements
http://www.pilotinformation.com/endorse.html#Private%20Pilot%20Endorsements
All kinds of pictures of aircraft
http://www.planespotting.net/
The Aeronautical Information Manual at theAir Traffic's Publications Library
home page. Also the Controller's Handbook, 7110.65, Notices to Airman
publication, Air traffic Bulletins, etc.
http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/.
FAA Advisory Circulars
http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/acs/ac-idx.htm
Telling time
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/anim
http://greenwichmeantime.com/
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html
Listing of status
( http://www.faa.gov/asos/asos.htm ).
or ( http://akweathercams.faa.gov/indexnew.htm
).
Incidentally, there's a nice map of world time zones at:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/docs/world_tzones.html
FAA Sources
The Aviator (A cornucopia of information)
http://.navioneer.org/
FAA Accident
www.faa.gov/avr/aai/aaihome.htm
Links
http://avialex.com/links.htm
Flight Standards
http://av-info.faa.gov
Landings
www.landings.com
Real-time graphical depictions of current TFRs will be available on the
FAA Web site starting today.
http://tfr.faa.gov/TFR/jsp/list.jsp
NTSB
www.ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm
FARs/AIM
http://www.faa.gov/fsdo/fll/
Unsafe Attitudes
www.midatlanticpilots.com
Summit Aviation sells a CDROM with just about every FAA piece of
paper you could want. http://www.summitaviation.com/
FAA Inspector's Handbook, at:
http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/faa/8400/8400_TOC.html
The FAA provides a searchable database for examiners.
http://av-info.faa.gov/DesigneeSearch.asp
.
The AIM, at
www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIM/index.htm.
Summit Aviation sells a CDROM with just about every FAA piece of
paper you could want.
http://www.summitaviation.com/
A/FD for Palm Pilot and Visor - Entire USA - $18
The Class II NOTAMs
http://www.faa.gov/NTAP/
www.avedware.com
This site has a copy of the medical form.
http://www.leftseat.com/8500.htm
FAA Advisory Circulars
http://www.faa.gov/avr/afs/acs/ac-idx.htm
Accidents:
www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/Query.htm
http://nasdac.faa.gov/asp/asy_fids.asp
ASRS Form
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov
Change of Address
http://registry.faa.gov/airmen.htm
Medical Information
www.cami.jccbi.gov
www.aviationmedicine.com
Practical Test Standards
www.faa.gov/profinfo.htm
FARs
www.faa.gov/avr/AFS/FARS/far_idx.htm
DE page:http://wmtalley.netpipeline.net
Much material is covered in the Aeronautical Information Manual, but there is significant benefit in your depth of understanding to be acquired by reading the actual orders and circulars.
http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/ http://
www.faa.gov/avr/afs/faa/8700/ http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/advisory_circulars/
Lost Certificate
Phone the FAA at 405 954-3261
Acronyms
Start with the AIM, http://www.faa.gov/ATPubs/AIM/AIMTOC.HTM.
Charts
http://www.aerochart.com/mapping/chart/chart.cfm?lat=42.07853583&lon=-76.09633306
IFR Approach Charts
Online ( http://www.aopa.org/members/airports/
).
Airspace chart
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ivancich/flying/airspace-matrix.html
Chart reading
http://www.aerochart.com/mapping/chart/chart.cfm?lat=42.07853583&lon=-76.09633306
Approach Plates
http://edj.net/cgi-bin/echoplate.pl
ONLINE CHART ORDERING SERVICE
The FAA's National Aeronautical Charting Office allows pilots to
order charts, flight publications, and digital products 24 hours a day. With
one-time purchase and subscription options. Customers can also request
overnight shipping for a small additional fee. For more see ( http://www.naco.faa.gov
).
This excellent weather chart has been sold on line and through pilot shops
for several years. It is free as two 11 x 17 full color PDF files, which you can
download and take to your local color copy shop for output.
http://www.weathergraphics.com/wg
Medical
From AOPA website at:
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/medical/medcert.html
The official FAA diabetic poop is here:
http://www.cami.jccbi.gov/AAM-300/insulin.html
http://www.aviationmedicine.com
More info from the AOPA website at
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/medical/diabetes.html
And one more link from AOPA at
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/medical/insulin.html
Knows the process that the FAA expects and can help your private physician
provide the correct necessary information
to your AME so you can get your special issuance as quickly as possible.
Bob Borucki, MD, AME,
airdrbob@aol.com
.Members only section. Many anti-hypertensives are approved.
http://www.aopa.org/members/databases/medical/druglist.cfm
IFR
Capt. Wally Roberts' most excellent site
www.terps.com
Read about an IFR training experience at
http://www.bollar.org/travel/essays/ifrwest00.htm
VFR pilots becoming unstuck in IMC.
http://www.chirp.co.uk/)
Vacuum Failure in IFR
http://www.cami.jccbi.gov/aam-400A/Abstracts/2002/FULL%20TEXT/0219.pdf
GPS
Windows based GPS moving map w/ HSI, go to
http://home.earthlink.net/~sonam/
Article on the Garmin (the article uses the 530 but
is applicable to the 430 as well):
http://www.avweb.com/articles/gns530/
http://www.garmin.com
Tips On Protecting Your Certificate
http://www.avweb.com/toc/avlaw.html
Information on FAA Form 8500-8 (application for a pilot medical
certificate
or student pilot certificate) is filled out correctly etc.
( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2001/01-3-042.html ).
Free practice tests for written:
http://www.webexams.com
http://www.freefaatestsprep.com/
http://www.mywrittenexam.com/mwe/
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~kucan/faa-test/the-test.html
Search for a college offering an aviation program.
http://www.aircraft.com/input/websites/viewlinks.asp?guid=h6u6mfqo&catid=87
http://www.aopaflighttraining.com/learntofly/collegiate.cfm
Navigation
Flight plan sheets you can print out
http://www.faa.gov/aba/html_pm/im/files_pdf/7233_1.pdf
This excellent weather chart has been sold on line and through pilot shops
for several years. It is free as two 11 x 17 full color PDF files, which you can
download and take to your local color copy shop for output.
http://www.weathergraphics.com/wg
Consider using an electronic one palm that does it all (E6-B+ from Jim Eli),
best $7.50 ever spent -
http://www.palmflying.com/esixb.html)
A flight log
1. Fill out the left-hand side as you normally would.
2. Determine fuel-- the MY RES field is used for any safety margin that you
might like. I use another 30 minutes or so of fuel just to handle any ATC or
unexpected winds.
3. In flight, clip the right hand side to your kneeboard, and unfold the
left-hand side over your thigh. You can then use the boxes provided to enter
actual time enroute, and use the notes field to jot down squawk codes,
clearances, etc.-Rob
http://www.documentstorageonline.com/rsplan.doc
Navigation log:
Scroll on down 'till you see "VFR XC Flight Planner" and there's a few
to choose from. I prefer the kneeboard format.
http://www.dauntless-soft.com/PRODUCTS/index.html
Amount of headwind for every crosswind:
You must check out the Aviation Forumlary for this and other answers:
http://www.best.com/~williams/avform.htm#Xwind
Charts
http://www.labins.org/drg.htm
IFR reservations arrival and departure require separate reservation.
800/875-9694
Has C-172 Weight and Balance Figures
http://home.earthlink.net/~suterc
Distance (in nm) and heading between any two cities.
http://www.aerochart.com/mapping/route/index.cfm
and
http://www.calle.com/aviation/airports.cgi
Airport pictures
http://www.airstripamerica.com
Go to the following page and scroll down to "Checkride"
http://www.studentpilot.com/articles/aviation_articles/
Electronic E6-B
My ASA CX-2 has many useful functions that simply are
not possible with a whiz-wheel. They have a demo at www.asa2fly.com.
Aerobatics (Patty Wagstaff)
www.aerobaticsourse.com
Locate all public, > private and military airports within a specified radius
of any town. http://lairds.com/Kyler/flying/flights/nearby_airports
Distance between airports
http://www.indo.com/distance/
By airport name or zipcode and get airports in the area of that zipcode.
www.landings.com
FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet from the FAA's web site at
http://www.faa.gov/avr/air/airhome.htm.
Written by ferry pilots and private pilots who have been to the places.
http://www.earthrounders.com )
and click on the "flight info" section.
CURRENT METAR: metar@flightwx.com
CANADIAN METAR: metar.ca@flightwx.com
AERODROME FORECAST: taf@flightwx.com
Pertinent to preparing for the reading the weather EXAMS:
At that page http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/nwsfax.shtml
you
can link to:
The Weather Depiction at the top of this page:
http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/sigwx.shtml#wxdepict
Radar Summary products available are:
http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/radar.shtml#radar
The "4 panel" Surface / Significant Weather / Cloud Amount
links from here:
http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/panel1.shtml#psigwx
E6-B flight computer
Sample questions to practice on at
http://nasaui.ited.uidaho.edu/nasaspark/safety/navcomm/computations.html
A small tutorial for the Gleim, but good for all, is at:
http://www.gleim.com/Aviation/flightcomputer/instructions.html
For the background behind a lot of that, see:
http://clem.mscd.edu/~serranof/aes4370/aes437notes/aes437chapter4.htm
Even better, go look at the USAF nav manual, which includes a section on DR
computers, and download it as PDF:
http://afpubs.hq.af.mil/pubfiles/af/11/afpam11-216/afpam11-216.pdf
Direct links to
aviation
http://www.myhq.com/public/v/a/vassilii/#100446503419002969
GA fixed-wing accident database
( http://www.aopa.org/asf/ntsb/ ).
How your transponder
works
http://www.avweb.com/articles/transpon.html
Anti-collision
Lighting.
http://www.whelen.com/pdfs/avserman.pdf
Controllers Handbook
http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/ATC/.
Andrew Sarangan
http://www.geocities.com/asarangan
U.S. Airports
http://www.airstripamerica.com/
CFI Resource
http://www.cyberair.com/tower/faa/cfi/index.html
AIRPORT LOCATOR: airports@flightwx.com
WEBSITE: www.flightwx.com
Instructor Lesson Plans
http://pages.prodigy.net/jedinein/cfi/irndex.htm
Have you looked here?
http://afs600.faa.gov/srchFolder.asp?Category=traininghandbook&cmdScroll=2
Hearing as a Problem
deafpilots@yahoogroups.com
CFI Lessons
http://home.att.net/~jm.price on "My Aviation
Page"
A: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides climatic wind
data for downloading on the Web.
If not your airport, it will most likely include the information for a nearby
location.
( http://www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/documentlibrary/pdf/wind1996.pdf
).
Is it possible to manually calculate (i.e. no whizwheel etc): > Heading
and Groundspeed if I have Intended Track,
TAS and w/v. Try the Aviation Formulary at
http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm
GPS Locations
Book: "GPS Companion" All bookstores. Lists geographical places in
U.S.
Engine History
Kimble D. McCutcheon, President
Aircraft Engine Historical Society, Inc.
Email Address: president@enginehistory.org
Website URL: http://www.enginehistory.org
Voice Telephone: (256) 683-1458
Autopilot
A very good article on the autopilot on the Avionics West web page. I
think it answers a lot of questions.
http://avionicswest.com/articles/know_your_autopilot.htm
Electronic Weather
Sectional geotiffs:
https://aviationtoolbox.org/members/kyler/tools/map_explorer
Oziexplorer (also get the geotiff support file from the extras area of the
website):
www.oziexplorer.com
Your link will go on "My Favorite Links" at my main site
www.fromthecockpit.com.
Cap'n Meryl
Check out the glider pilot area.. lots of vector terrain maps with
airport/airspace data.. not a full sectional.. but GPS inputs to PDAs run
many glide programs with moving map displays
http://www.winpilot.com/
http://www.soarmn.com/cumulus/
http://www.soarmn.com/cumulus/#Product_Comparison_Pages
ControlVision also offers a version of their AnywhereMap for the laptop.
http://www.anywheremap.com/detail.aspx?ID=89
I haven't tried their laptop software yet, but I've been pleased with their
PDA version for a few years now.
www.pocketfms.com
I use it for my Dell Axim (ppc) but it has an interface for PC's. Best of
all...it's free!
Use of WWW to track flights
I use fboweb.com, $10/month. I looked far and wide for free or
cheaper options to no avail. Fboweb is probably less capable than
FlightExplorer, but it's web based so I (or my wife) can use it from
anywhere...
All the aviation formulae you will ever need
http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#Mach
WWII Fighters, Google Earth Viewer, New Written Questions;
Good pictures of WWII fighters -
http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=11915Google's new Earth viewer, downloadable from www.earth.google.com.
It's like maps.google.com and draws on the same the satellite views, but now you
can also rotate and tilt the view so that you can appear to be on final into any
runway... and the terrain is accurately modeled, too.
New Written Questions
http://www.asa2fly.com
www.asa2fly.com
. They print new questions if there are any.
Bob Gardner
Aircraft Door Lock
AIRCRAFT SECURITY & ALERT
214/956-9563
http://www.aircraftsecurityalert.com
Local METAR Weather
I wrote this little proggy to get the local conditions at my airport quickly. I
thought some you might be interested in checking it out. It's a little rough but
I thought if you guys are game, it would be nice to have some feedback. It's
free. No commercial aspirations....
http://www.unconventional-wisdom.org/Software/MetarMonkey.asp
Jim
Weather Information
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/
www.duats.com
Meteorologist and flight instructor, he will point you in the right
direction. Might even sign you up for one of his seminars. Great source of
weather information.z
scott@chesavtraining.com
Have a look at http://jar66.info/Pilot_Training_Books%20US.html
Otmar
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