San Francisco Bay Area Flight Instruction: Aviation Links

Advanced Technical Information
Aerodynamics	Misc
Advanced Topics in Aerodynamics	Ed Williams' Technical Articles
Ray Preston's Aerodynamics Text
See How It Flies	Avionics
What causes lift?	Garmin 530 Gotchas
NASA's Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight	Examiner Guidance for the G1000
Gliders and Polar Curves

Safety
General Information	Bird Strikes	Survival Supplies and Equipment
AOPA Air Safety Foundation	Bird Strikes	Aircraft Survival Kits from SW Aviator
How Safe is Flight Instruction?	U.S. Bird Avoidance Model	Wilderness Survival Course Summary
Travis Midair Collision Avoidance		Aviation Survival from Equipped to Survive
Does an IFR Rating Make You Safer?	High Altitude Physiology	Adventure Medical Kits
NASA Icing Courses	High-Altitude Chamber
	Oxygen for General Aviation

FAA Documents
FAA Regulatory Support Division (AC, PTS, etc.)	Letters to Airmen	Air Traffic Publications
Master MELs	FAA Safety	FAA-Industry Training Standards
		8500-8 (Medical Application)

Fun Things
Live ATC Feeds	Humor, Pictures, and Videos	Flying Vacations
Live ATC	Why to strap things down	FlyInn New Zealand
Atlanta Approach with Video	The Flying Business Man (old movie)	Air Journey Tours
SFO Flight Tracking	Aviation Videos
SJC Flight Tracking	Aviation Oops! Photos	History
	Aviation Videos and Photos	Four Course Range
Misc		Little Known and Abandoned Airfields
Amazing 737 simulator	Trip Reports	Bay Area Landmarks
Golden Gate Biplane Adventures	Ponceby Flight Around the World - 1998
Flying Colors Stained Glass	Wings Around the World II

Other Resources
Resources for CFIs	Bay Area Information	Mountain Flying
AOPA FIRC Resource Site	Sensitive Wildlife Areas and Penalties (6 MB)	Amy Hoover's Mountain and Canyon Flying Tips
Jedi Nein's CFI Page		Sparky Imeson's Mountain Flying
	Aviation Organizations	Flight Training article on Mountain Flying
Advanced Traing	AngelFlight
Chesapeake Aviation Training - weather
Hot Air Ballons in Manteca
Hot Air Ballons in the Rockies