San Francisco Bay Area Flight Instruction: Aviation Links

Advanced Technical Information
Aerodynamics	Misc
Ray Preston's Aerodynamics Text	Ed Williams' Technical Articles
See How It Flies
What causes lift?	Avionics
NASA's Introduction to the Aerodynamics of Flight	Garmin 530 Gotchas
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
Accidents
Porpoise on Landing
Cameron Park Crash

FAA Documents
FAA Regulatory Support Division (AC, PTS, etc.)	FAA Safety	Air Traffic Publications
FSIMS Active Pubs (FAAST, MMEL, FAA Orders)	Conducting an Effective Flight Review	FAA-Industry Training Standards

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	A Day in the Life of U.S. Air Traffic	Little Known and Abandoned Airfields
Amazing 737 simulator		Bay Area Landmarks
Flying Colors Stained Glass	Trip Reports
	Ponceby Flight Around the World - 1998
	Wings Around the World II

Other Resources
Resources for CFIs	Bay Area Information	Mountain Flying
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 West
Chesapeake Aviation Training - weather
Hot Air Ballons in Manteca
Hot Air Ballons in the Rockies