Doug's Aviation Links
Mercer County Airport, Trenton, NJ
Learn to Fly, Learn about Flying
| Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association | If you're a pilot, you need to belong to AOPA. They have been instrumental in preserving our right to fly. |
| AOPA's Learn To Fly Resources | An outstanding summary of what it takes to be a pilot. |
| General Aviation Serving America | What is General Aviation? How does it impact my life? This site tells all. |
| Be-A-Pilot | Another good summary on how learning to fly can change your life for the better. Includes an offer for a $49 first flight certificate. |
Flight Planning and Weather
| DTC DUAT | FAA-Authorized Weather Briefer - my personal favorite |
| CSC DUATS | An alternative FAA-Authorized Weather Briefer |
| Aviation Digital Data Service | The BEST application of modern web technologies for the pilot. |
| National Weather Service | A vastly improved public weather delivery site |
| AirNav | I use this site to plan fuel stops wherever I fly. |
| Aviation Formulary | A great repository of formulae used in aviation planning, sunrise/sunset calculations, and more. |
| NACO Digital Terminal Procedures | NACO's digital format terminal procedures publication. |
| NACO Digital AF/D | NACO's digital format airport facility directory. |
| FlightAware | General Aviation flight tracking |
Regulatory and Advisory Information
| Federal Aviation Regulations | Index of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations |
| Aeronautical Information Manual | Reference of the AIM, which includes information supplementary to the FAR's. |
Aircraft Sales
| Aircraft Sales Online | A great place to buy and sell airplanes. I used ASO to sell a friend's 150. This is a great marketing tool. |
| Controller | An alternative aircraft marketing site. |
Flight Simulation
| Microsoft Flight Simulator | The standard in personal flight simulation. It's not FAA certified, but it ought to be. |
| X-Plane | The simulator with the most accurate flight models, this simulator is used in a product that is certified by the FAA. |
Specific Topics
| Aviation Interviews | Before you go for that airline job interview, check out this site. I've also found this helpful as a general study aid for the ATP certificate, since the guys doing the hiring usually want to know all the right things. |
| Dan Checkoway's RV-7 Project | This is without a doubt the best aircraft builder's site I've ever seen. It gives a very detailed account of the building process for an Experimental Vans RV-7 taildragger. |
| Don Barnes' Lancair Legacy | If you've ever wanted to know what it takes to build a high performance composite kitplane such as the Lancair Legacy, check this out! |
| Reed Prior's Trip Around The World | Some people take travel via small airplane to an extreme(!) Very interesting reading, whether or not you're expecting to fly around the world in a small airplane! |
| Carol Ann Garratt's Trip Around The World | Here's another fascinating travelogue of an around-the-world trip in (yes, you guessed it) a Mooney! |
| Homemade Weather Balloon | An interesting use of computer technology. |
| Whitts Flying Resources | Provides gobs of good information about how we learn as students and how we should teach as Flight Instructors. |
| John Denker's "How It Flies" | An outstanding flight dynamics reference |
| Doug Ritter's Aviation Survival Guide | Ever wonder what you would do if you had to land off-airport, out in the middle of nowhere, or survive after a ditching until help arrives? Read Doug's site to learn what to do and how to equip you and your passengers as required to meet any emergency. |
Blogs
| Blogging Pilots | Aviation blog link aggregator. Very helpful to see if many of your favorite aviation blogs have been updated recently. |
| Aviation Mentor | A former freight dog, John is now a CFI and teaches in SoCal. |
| Get The Flick | Don Brown is a retired air traffic controller from Atlanta who wrote for avweb for a number of years. |
| Blogging at FL250 | The daily rituals of a regional airline pilot. |
| Great Gig In The Sky | A pilot who talks about his road to the regional airlines. |
| Flight Level 390 | America from the flight deck of an A320. |
| Sulako's Blog | A fun and interesting look at the life of a corporate jet pilot. |
Usenet Newsgroups
| rec.aviation.owning rec.aviation.piloting rec.aviation.student rec.aviation.ifr |
The first and best aviation forums on the net. |
| Google's
Usenet Advanced Search Engine |
If you ever wanted to know why I don't bother contributing to website-based aviation forums, this is why. Messages on UseNet have been archived for over 10 years and are searchable! |