Steve's List of Useful Links


Last update: 1-Oct-2007

Reviewed and updated links. A few are being researched.


Have you ever needed to access a web page for important info when you're away from your primary workstation and found that you couldn't remember the address of the page? That's happened to me many times. What I really need is for my bookmarks to be available anywhere. Well, now they are! This page contains many of the links that I use most frequently and are of greatest use to me. Now you can use them too!

Do you have a link that you find particularly useful and need when you're on the go? Send it to me (there's an e-mail link at the bottom of this page) and if I find it useful too, I'll add it here.


Steve Philipson's home page: http://www.flightquest.net

Aviation Weather Links

CSC DUATS Weather: http://www.duats.com/

DTC DUATS Weather: http://www.duat.com/

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Assoc. Weather: http://www.aopa.org/members/wx/

Aviation Digital Data Service: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/

ADDS list of location identifiers: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/projects/adds/metars/stations.txt

National Weather Service Satelite Image, SF Bay Area: http://sat.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/1km/Monterey/VIS1MRY.GIF

National Weather Service Radar Image, SF Bay Area: http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.kmux.shtml

National Weather Service, SF Bay Area: http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/

NRL Monterey Sat Images: http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/epac_westcoast.cgi

GOES Satellite Server: http://www.goes.noaa.gov

METAR Data Acccess: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml

United States Doppler Radar: http://www.weatherimages.org/data/radar

Oakland Wind Profile: http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/upper/oak.gif

SF Region Profiler and Surface Winds: http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/profiler/map/cccoast.html

Radiosonde Database Acccess: http://raob.fsl.noaa.gov/


Regulations and Information

Maptech Chart Server: http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm

Airport, Facility, and other Information: http://www.airnav.com

Airport, Facility, and other Information: http://www.fboweb.com/20/airports.asp

Landings Home Page: http://www.landings.com

FAA home page: http://www.faa.gov

FAA Official Code of Federal Regulations: http://http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?&c=ecfr&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title14/14tab_02.tpl

Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM): http://www.faa.gov/atpubs/aim/

FAA Air Traffic Control System Command Center: http://www.fly.faa.gov/

FAA Code of Federal Regulations: Searchable listing: http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/fars.html

FAA Safety Data and Statiscs: http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/

Info on Piper (and other make) Aircraft: http://www.risingup.com/planespecs/info/listPiper.shtml

Aerodyanmics for Students: http://www.ae.su.oz.au/aero/aerodyn.html


Civil Air Patrol

National Web Site Civil Air Patrol: http://www.cap.gov/

California Wing Headquarters: http://www.cawg.cap.gov/

Palo Alto, CA Squadron 10: http://sq10.cawg.cap.gov/

CAP Store: http://www.civilairpatrolstore.com/store/link1.php

Air Force Link: http://www.af.mil/

U.S. Air Force Publications: http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/forms-pubs/

National Guard Publications: http://www.ngbpdc.ngb.army.mil/


Aviation Safety

NTSB Monthly Accident Reports: http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/month.asp

NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS): http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/

Transportation Safety Board of Canada: http://www.tsb.gc.ca/en/index.asp

Air Force Safety Center: http://afsafety.af.mil/

Navy Safety Center: http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/

FLYING Safety Magazine (USAF): http:// afsafety.af.mil/magazine/htdocs/fsmfirst.htm

UK accident info: http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/home/index.cfm

UK Air Accident Investigation Branch Bulletins: http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk/publications/bulletins.cfm


Aviation Parts and Supplies

Chief Aircraft: http://www.chiefaircraft.com/

Plastic Parts for Piper Aircraft: http://www.planeparts.com

Inexpensive Full Feature Aviation Band Scanner: http://www.avshop.com/product/2601/196


Miscellaneous Links

Soaring Society of America: http://www.ssa.org

Soaring Links by Paul Remde: http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/soaring_links/index.htm

GAMI's Engine Test Site: http://www.engineteststand.com/

Mirriam-Webster Dictionay/Thesaurus: http://www.webster.com

Dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/

Enroute Flight Tracking - Flightaware: http://flightaware.com/

Enroute Flight Tracking - Flytecomm: http://www.flytecomm.com/cgi-bin/trackflight

Satellite Images by Street Address: http://www.globeexplore.com/cfviewer/start.cfm

United States Time Standard: http://www.time.gov/


Steven H. Philipson
936 Erica Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-8211
USA
408-530-9584

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