Aviation website list from Oshkosh presentation

Here’s the list of websites and other resources that I talked about in the EAA AirVenture forum presentation this Wednesday. The talk titled ‘The Internet for Pilots – to Twitter and beyond!’. It was divided into a few different sections, the first part was intro material and didnt have any links, then we got into the main content:

Training & Safety

1. FAAsafety.gov – home to the Wings program, listings of aviation events, courses and seminars, the Learning Center and much more.
2. SPANS – sign up here to get into the FAASafety.gov system and receive notifications of events, participate in the Wings program, etc.
3. Aviation learning Center – Search here for lots of great aviation information – courses, documents, etc.
4. On Landings Part 1 – Part 1 of a series looking at common landing errors and how to fix them, co-authored and illustrated by William Kershner
5. On Landings Part 2
6. On Landings Part 3
7. FAA.gov – main FAA website with lots and lots of information, including downloadable PDF manuals and handbooks
8. AOPA Air Safety Foundation – many great safety resources
9. Nall Report – Analysis of accident causes and trends for 2007.
10. ASF interactive courses – flash-based tutorials covering weather, communication, charts and much more.

Preflight

1. Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) – the main government weather site for aviation.
2. Navmonster.com – Another alternative site for weather data, can be advert-heavy.
3. AeroWeather – Free iPhone app for Metar and Taf data
4. Skyvector.com – Explore sectionals, area charts and IFR charts using google maps interface – weather and route planning also.
5. NACO digital Terminal Procedures Publications (d-TPP) – Download PDFs of IFR approach plates, SIDS, STARS, airport diagrams, A/FD pages, Chart Users Guide.
6. AOPA Airports guide for iPhone (AOPA Members only)
7. Google Earth – Review your airport and route in 3D and with satellite imagery, also for the iPhone
8. AOPA Flight Planner (AOPA Members only)

Social Networking sites for Aviation

1. AOPA Forums (AOPA Members Only)
2. Studentpilot.com Bulletin Board – active forums on a wide variety of topics
3. Facebook – Many aviation groups and sites including EAA, Skyvector
4. Oshkosh365 – EAA’s social networking site, for EAA members and non-members, blogs and great weather display
5. Twitter – micro-blogging in 140 characters or less, follow the #OSH09 hash tag, my tweets: @simon_t
6. AvWeb YouTube video clip of A380 cross-wind landing
7. Twitter Stream Graphs of #OSH09 tags (created using Neoformix.com StreamGraph tool)
8. Blogs – too many to mention individually but check out bloggingpilots.com for a list of many great sites.
9. Podcasts – lots of these too, try searching iTunes for ‘pilot’ and/or ‘aviation’
10. UND Aerocast – video tutorials demonstrating many flight maneuvers, instrument technique and more