General Aviation Information
The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane
to keep the pilot
cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot
break out into a sweat!
... Unknown
Flying aids:
Go to
the DOWNLOAD page of my Excel
VFR Flight Planner rev 1.20. New airports sheet and even easier
user interface. Absolutely and unconditionally free. Download size
is 213kB. It should run under Excel versions from 5.0 to Excel 2000. These
are some of its features:
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Multiple sheet layout: Airports, Flight Plan,
Reverse Flight Plan, Aircraft Info, Weight & Balance, Gen Info, Weather
and Timezones.
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With entry of checkpoint & wind info, get
wind correction angle, ETEs, ETAs and fuel consumption.
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Graphical display of weight and balance for various
Cessna and Piper aircraft.
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Density altitude, great circle distance/course,
sunrise/sunset, multiple timezones and other calculations.
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Sheet to enter navaid information, airport runway
information and approach/departure frequencies etc...
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A weather and airport ATIS page with some info
on PIREPs and METAR codes.
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Easily customisable to handle multiple aircraft,
units, countries etc. A basic howto sheet provided in this version.
This flight planner is also available at
download.com
and Ziff-Davis Net. ZDnet has reviewed
this application favourably with a 5 star rating. Go to my download
page for more information.
Links:
Landings - Aviation
databases and links
Avhome - The aviation
home page
Michele's
Hangar Immense source of aviation links.
Aircraft
Specifications from FlightNet Africa
Aviation info, product
reviews, quizzes and fun places to fly (AvWeb)
How things
fly
Aviation
Formulae
Aviation glossary 
My
flying club - Flying Particles, Livermore, California
Livermore,
CA airport homepage
NORCAL
Digest
Training materials and checkride
stories:
Tim Carlson's
navigation simulator (VOR, HSI, ADF, RMI etc)
Gene Whitt's
web site, complete set of general aviation related material
Should
you turn back? Engine failure on takeoff - The impossible turn?
Mike Wei's instrument
checkride(June 1998)
My instrument training
diary and checkride
(If you would like to share a checkride story and add to this page,
please email me).
Weather:
Aviation Digital
Data Service Very good weather site
National
Weather Service - San Francisco Bay Area
USA
Today's weather site for pilots Lots of useful info and links
Aviation
Weather Centre (NOAA)
Purdue Weather
Processor
Penn
State Univ Weather Page Interesting format incl user weather observations
Near real-time
weather from Pleasanton, CA
Worldwide weather
- Washington Post
Another source
of world wide weather- WeatherLab
METAR/TAF
sample explanation and abbreviations
Weather
at the coldest place on earth
One
of the hottest places on earth
Images:
Final approach to Livermore,
25R (JPG-10k)
My trainer and yours truly,
N6457L (Cessna 152), crashed later by a student in Tracy, CA
Overhead Golden Gate bridge,
Feb '98
A good reason to get your
instrument rating!
Flying background:
I started my flight training on 27th Feb, 1991
and obtained my PP-ASEL rating on Jan 12, 1992 after 57 hrs of flying.
My training was at Livermore,
CA with 2 instructors involved, over that period. I fly various Cessna
and Piper aircraft. My home base airport is Livermore, CA in the San Francisco
Bay area. I now have an instrument rating
which I obtained on Jan 3, 1999.
This site created and maintained by Sriram Narayan
Last edited: 21 May, 2001
