Links
Here are some links to other web pages related to flying that may be of interest to EAA members:
Organizations
- Experimental Aircraft Association - National Chapter of the EAA
- Federal Aviation Administration - The federal body that regulates aviation in the U.S.
- National Transportation Safety Board - provides aviation accident statistics
Flight Planning
- EAA Flight Planner by Aeroplanner.com. Free for EAA members.
- AirNav.com - a good place to get information on various airports and the services they offer.
- SkyVector - the freely available online aeronautical charts
- FAA Special Use Airspaces - FAA website providing Military Operations Area activity
- DUATS - Computer Sciences Corporation's (CSC) version of the Direct User Access Terminal Service which is provided under contract by the FAA. Commonly used for obtaining weather briefs, retrieving NOTAMS, and filing/opening/closing flight plans.
- DUAT - This is a similar product to DUATS above, except it is provided by the Data Transformation Corporation (DTC) under contract with the FAA.
Weather
- National Weather Service - Weather forcast information provided by the Federal government
- Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU) Minneapolis - Direct link to the Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAF) for the ZMP airspace served by Minneapolis Center.
- Aviation Digital Data Service - a compilation of services provided by NOAA National Weather Service, including METAR, TAF, PIREP, AIR/SIGMET, RADAR and many other services.
- Pilot-My-Cast - Aviation weather on your mobile phone provided by Garmin.
- Intellicast - General weather forecasting
Software
- X-Plane - A flight simulator with flight dynamics modeling capabilities
- FlightGear - Free flight simulator
- PocketFMS - Free moving map software for your PDA and desktop computer.
- Easy GPS - Free software for uploading waypoints to handheld GPS units.
- GPX Aviation Waypoint Generator - Free software to generate navaid data for uploading to GPS units with EasyGPS.
- Google Earth - Interactive 3D map of the earth with terrain and color satellite imagery. Also has a flight simulator built-in.
- GPS Visualizer - View your GPS track in Google Earth
- G7ToWin - Software to allow transferring data between handheld GPS units and a computer.
- eSectionals - Subscription service that allows downloading and printing the most current sectionals.
- Airport Waypoint Database - Text database of airport waypoints.
- Golden Eagle FlightPrep - This is an additional free product created by CSC which provides a simpler-to-use GUI access to DUATS.
Area Fly-ins
- Wisconsin DOT Maintained List
- Minnesota DOT Maintained List
- Fly-ins.com - Locate a fly-in near you. Includes email notifications of new events.
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