Stop by at Oshkosh ’09

Airventure 2009

If you are going to be at Airventure in Oshkosh in a couple of weeks, I’m giving a presentation entitled Internet for Pilots, to Twitter and beyond! on Wednesday, July 27th. It will be in the Utah Valley University Pavillion from 4 to 5.15pm.

I’ll be covering some of the great Internet resources out there for pilots at all stages in their aviation career: training and safety, weather, flight planning, charts and navigation and more. I’ll go into some of the cool new mobile applications coming out for the iphone and talk about how social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook and others can be great tools to stay in touch with aviation even when you aren’t at the airport.

I’m going to try and work in some observations I have made over the years of test prep results from preparetotest.com – there are some questions and topics people keep getting wrong as they are learning to fly and these are often areas critical to flight safety that continue to cause problems in the pilot community after folks are licensed. I’m going to highlight some of these along with the resources that can help

If you are going to be in Oshkosh, drop me an email or I’m on Twitter as @simon_t, it would be great to meet up!

Here’s the current draft of the contents and some of the main sites I’ll be talking about. Clearly there are many other great sites, blogs, podcasts, etc. out there and I cant cover them all – please don’t be offended if your favorite site isn’t on this list. That being said, if you have other sites you think everyone really should know about, I’d love to hear about them. Time is limited for the talk so I may already have more than enough to cover but I can always keep a longer list online.

• FAASafety.gov & the WINGS program
• Resources for Training – Safety & Education
  • AOPA – Air Safety Foundation, FlightTraining magazine
  • FAA – Handbooks, Manuals, Library, FAA Safety.gov, NASA ASRS
  • Licensing/Test Prep – Sportys, PrepareToTest (RSS feeds), MyWrittenExam, etc.
  • Aerodynamics – See How it Flys, John Denker,
  • Online nav simulators – E6B Sims, VOR Sims
  • Podcasts & Videos – UND Aerocast, The Finer Points (audio & video), Airspeed, UCAP, Pilots Flight PodLog, Pilots Journey
• Preflight – resources to help you get ready to fly and keep you informed en route
  • Weather – ADDS, Aviation Weather
  • Airport Information – d-TERPS, A/FD online, AirNav, AOPA Airport Directory (iPhone)
  • Navigation – Planners (EAA, AOPA, DUATS)
  • Charts – Skyvector, NACO, NACO Charts User guide
  • iPhone Apps – Weather, Flight planning, etc.
• Postflight – Online hanger flying, community building and more
  • Facebook – EAA Groups
  • Twitter  – #OSH09, #pilot, #aviation
  • Oshkosh 365
  • AOPA Members Forums
  • StudentPilot.com
  • Blogs – Blogging Pilots, AOPA Lets go Flying, GirlsWithWings