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Airplanes
Repositories of aviation images
Mostly commercial airlines
Airline Taxiing Accidents (My student in 1979)
Mostly general aviation airplanes
Aerial photos of airports
The ads there have pictures with them, and are sorted by type.
Cessna: presents photos of the cockpits of a Cessna 172, 172 RG and Piper Seminole. If you point to a gauge or control and click, you get a pop-up that explains it. The Cessna 172 is almost complete. The others are almost started
C-152 Simulator
For a look at the latest Pipers:
Phone Numbers
Gene Whitt, Instructor: 925 376-5875
CCR AWOS 925 689-2077
CCR ATIS: 925 685-4567
Navajo Aviation 925 685 1150 (fuel)
Concord Tower:925 685-5743 685-5744 weekends
Buchanan Airport office: 646-5722
Staff paper 925 210-5332
Byron airport
8:30 to 4:30 925 634-0147
CTAF 123.05
Livermore Tower: 925 443-0666
IFR FLIGHT PLANS WITH TOWER CLOSED 707-437-4702
Oakland Center (510) 797-3200
FLIGHT SERVICE STATION
Universal FSS number 1-800-992-7433 (1-800-WX BRIEF)
Weather Bureau 5 day forecasts
1-408 656-1724
FSS LOCAL NUMBER
FSS Supervisor 273 6111 (EMERGENCY NUMBER)
IFR NUMBER 1-800-272-0128
ATIS:
CCR 925 685 4567 OAK 510 635 5850
HWD 510 786 3988 LVK 925 447-9516
BAY TRACON (APPROACH)
510 273 6115
FAA General aviation (FISDO)
510 273 7155
DUATS
DTC 800/245-3828
GTE 800/767-9989
GTE DUATS is at:
Free weather graphics, weather charts with weather decoder using Cirrus software. Input requests can be made off-line and the data automatically downloaded.
GPS Companion...Gives location of non-aviation places. 800/532-3462.
Aviation TV channel:
Wingspan: Air and Space channel on cable and satellite. (301) 718-0700
Locators:
The site provides information about Pilots Guide to California Airports,
Pilots Guide to Southwestern Airports (published by RGR Publications) as well as other products and services from Optima Publications. Pilots Guide to California Airports subscribers will also find useful Revision information and Page Checklists to make sure your Guide is complete and up-to-date.
Optima Publications
Pilots Guide to California Airports info@pilotsguide.com
180 Second Street
Los Altos, CA 94022-2860
(415) 941-4333
Publications
AOPA Online - Home Page
Safety Highlights" (the first in the series) was mailed to more than 27,000 Cessna 172 owners and operators. Each edition of "Safety Highlights" will be available free on the ASF
or ordered online at
Textron Lycoming believes that shock cooling is a problem. Browse through their web site: and you will find at least one article (in the engine operation section) which gives techniques for avoiding it.
Summit Aviation has all FAA material in computerized data base on CD ROM 800/328-6280. CFIs save money
Source of books on flight training featuring most of Bill Kershner's and Robert Gardner's work plus 150 other aviation books and videos in various categories.
Callback
It highlights some of the more interesting submissions. FREE
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/callback_issues/cb_241.htm .
Other issues can be found online at
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/callback_nf.htm
Radio Procedures
Downloadable flight simulator
Mnemonics
A collection of mnemonics for VFR GeneralAviation
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/SuburbanSt/d_w_brooks/avmnem.htm
VFR and IFR mnemonics:
Morse Code
On-line morse code practice page:
Follow the Morse Code link on the left hand menu.
Navigation
Windcalc.exe download it by clicking here!! (only 40k)
Featuring instant calculation of up to a 16 leg flight. Tells you corrected course, grounds speed and leg time. Change the wind speed, direction, or your cruise speed and all legs are refigured. Makes it easy to see what effect these parameters have on your flight. Convert all miles and speeds from statute to nautical with one motion.
Found a web site with some nav instruction (geared to a flight sim but the concepts the same) plus quite a history lesson.It covers time and distance to station calculations for an NDB.
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It has the look and feel of a regular navigation log. Check it out at
(Follow links Planning-> navigation log - javascript version)
Making your computer into an E6B
I pulled the formulas out of
http://prestwick.simplenet.com/aviation/aviaform.htm
and built a spreadsheet-based nav log that does all of the grunt work for me. It's great.
Put your pilot logbook on the Web and access it from anywhere in the world! And it's free. Log on to
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Official Sources
ASRS Web Site
http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov
The FAA recently released an update of its "Aviation Weather Services" Advisory Circular (AC 00-45E). It's not yet in print, but can be downloaded. This AC explains how to interpret and use coded weather reports.
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Air Traffic Control Related Sites
Dallas-Ft Worth Tracon
http://web2.airmail.net/chuck/
A/FD data
If the location has a street address, online on MAPBLAST:
Organizations
http://acro.harvard.edu/IAC/
International Aerobatic Club Home Page
EAA Warbirds Division Home Page
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