Pilot Journey - a Web site for all pilots.This is just a collection of interesting and useful (I think) links. It's loosely divided into various topics.
AOPA has published information on recent runway incursions - read them, this could happen to you, make sure it doesn't!
AOPA's recently published Safety Advisory on icing: http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/sa11.pdf
Do you fly single pilot IFR? It's not as safe as having multiple pilots, but is it safe enough? Read this AOPA Safety Advisory on the topic: http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/sa05.pdf.
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The Change Notice for Instrument Approach Plates is published 28 days after the paper charts are published.
The Published NOTAMs are available on-line.
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This page has some links and suggestions for Internet resources for student pilots. All the links from this page go to some other Internet site. If you find any of the links are broken, please drop me an e-mail at mat@mwaugh.com telling me which link it was and I'll try and fix it.
If you have suggestions for links for this page, send them along to the same e-mail address, mat@mwaugh.com.
AOPA's Flight Training Web Site is full of information on all stages of training.
Sign up for a free 6 month subscription and free trial AOPA training membership at AOPA Flight Training Magazine. If your instructor is an AOPA member, get them to sign you up at the Instructor's AOPA Flight Training Magazine. You'll get the same benefits, plus your instructor will get something out of it as well (and perhaps they'll share).
Student pilots who have a mentor are far more likely to finish their training (so the statistics say). Use the AOPA Project Pilot page to search for a mentor in your area. Mentors can be either local or they can be remote via e-mail.
Ten Things Your Flight Instructor Wishes You Knew.
Some articles from AvWeb that you may find useful:
Student pilot landing errors. Always, always, fly the plane even when the wheels are on the ground!
A discussion and an interesting method for Entering the Traffic Pattern.
The AOPA Air Safety Advisory on operation at uncontrolled airports. A great detailed explanation of the traffic pattern, and how to operate in it. There is also a similar document on operation at tower controlled airports.
Obtaining a good weather briefing is both an art and a science. The FAA has published FAA-P-8740-30 describing the components of a good weather briefing and how to obtain one. A PDF version of the file is available and an interactive version is also available.
Course outline, references, syllabuses etc. from Ohio State University.
Practicing for the Knowledge Test? Here are some sites that can help you practice:
Thanks to Robert Gregory flying at Southern Jet for this additional list of sites:
Not free, but several titles from GLEIM are available for the Palm device. Make those meetings more productive!
And a really neat flight planning site. Download digital sectionals and WACs:
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A directory of Pilot Web sites with at http://pilotwebsites.com.
An AOPA Air Safety Foundation safety briefing on operations at uncontrolled airports. It's a great introduction to operation in the traffic pattern. There is also a similar document on operation at tower controlled airports.
This book, Controlling Pilot Error: Training & Instruction, is part of a series of books that use the ASRS reports to discuss particular areas of operation.
For pointers to other books you might find useful try Aviation Books.
Course outline, references, syllabuses etc. from Ohio State University.
The FAA Airman Certification Department provides a Part 61 FAQ in PDF format. While this is not regulatory, it is written by the people who write the regulations so if there is no legal opinion developed it's the best we've got for interpreting the regulations.
Got questions about 14 CFR Part 135 or Part 121 operations or discussions then Doc's FAR forum is good place to go.
A collection of training tools hosted by Ryan Ferguson.
An excellent article really intended for student pilots but hey, nothing says you can't point it out for them to read. Ten Things Your Flight Instructor Wishes You Knew.
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A collection of useful information for training and getting ready for your checkride.
Here is an online guide, mainly focused on handheld GPS, for using GPS in the cockpit.
More reading about GPS - here are some suggested books.
For everything you ever wanted to know about aviation GPS, but were probably quite rightly afraid to ask, try Aviator's Guide to GPS.
If you're a VFR pilot you might want to try GPS for VFR: A practical GPS guide for VFR pilots.
A collection of Garmin "gotchas". Some of these are really not understanding the equipment and it's capabilities (and at least one seems to be based on a faulty installation) but on the other hand there's good information in there as well!
The NOAA map for plotting AIRMETs, SIGMETs etc.
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A number of Bendix King Pilot Guides are either available for download or purchase.
These specific documents are available in Adobe PDF.
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Looking for a C172 Checklist? Here's a C172 checklist from Dauntless Software.
If you're looking to extend your flying to on-line groups there are some groups on Yahoo that you may want to checkout.
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An online searchable FAR/AIM - very handy for resolving those disputes on the regulations (although right now it doesn't seem to be working - I'm going to leave it here because it's so useful if it ever comes back on line).
Directory of Aviation Resources - Avhome.
Pilot Journey - a Web site for all pilots.
Aviation Rules of Thumb and some more Rules of Thumb.
The Northwest School of Aviation has some interesting documents and links.
Need to find a medical examiner - check the FAA's listings.
Need FAA forms for airman certification, they're online in Adobe PDF forma.
Wally Robert's is an expert on the design of instrument approaches, his Web page has some interesting articles for Instrument pilots at http://www.terps.com.
A collection of various documents, including checklists, ACs and checkout forms, from a FBO in the North-East.
Course outline, references, syllabuses etc. from Ohio State University.
For the inside skinny on operating your Lycoming engine here are some useful operational techniques.
The USAF Instrument Flying Manual - 297 pages of PDF, 25MB, so not for the faint of heart! http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/11/afman11-217v1/afman11-217v1.pdf
The FAA Airman Certification Department provides a Part 61 FAQ in PDF format. While this is not regulatory, it is written by the people who write the regulations so if there is no legal opinion developed it's the best we've got for interpreting the regulations.
Got questions about 14 CFR Part 135 or Part 121 operations or discussions then Doc's FAR forum is good place to go.
A comprehensive, and I mean comprehensive, C172 pre-flight "checklist".
A directory of Pilot Web sites with at http://pilotwebsites.com.
A good Web site from Mark Kolber.
AvWeb is a great source of educational articles, even if at some times opinionated articles :-). Here are just a few;
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