AirNav Airport Info
ForeFlight: Paid Aviation GPS App (for iOs)
Avare: Free Aviation GPS App (for Android)
AviationWeather.gov
Current Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs)
Suggested FAR Reading List (Student and Private Pilots: No need to read any more FARs than what is in this list.)
FAA Airworthiness Directives (ADs)
Sporty's Pilot Shop
MyPilotStore.com
Aircraft Spruce & Specialty
Controller.com: Used Aircraft For Sale
Trade-A-Plane: Search for Aircraft & Aircraft Parts
Training Materials
"Learn To Fly" eBook, by Xander GoochGold Seal Ground School Video Course
Sporty's Learn To Fly Video Course (Remember to enter Media Code "FLT9777" in the box at the final step of checkout!)
Rod Machado's Free Online Flight Training Tools
Luiz Monteiro Aviation Calculators
Stick and Rudder, by Wolfgang Langewiesche (Pronounced "long-gah-VEE-shuh".) This is a must-read book for any aviator.
>>>>>>>> Archive.org Free Online eBook of Stick and Rudder
Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
Airplane Flying Handbook
FAA Tips on Mountain Flying
Aeronautical Chart User's Guide
Instrument Flying Handbook (instrument students only)
Instrument Procedures Handbook (instrument students only)
FAA Airman Certification Standards (ACS)
Piper Pacer N8428D pilot's operating handbook
Piper Pacer N8428D airplane flight manual
Piper Pacer N8428D compass card, weight and balance
Piper Pacer N8428D custom checklists
Cessna 150M pilot's operating handbook
Cessna 150M custom checklists
Cessna 172C Pilot's Operating Handbook (Rotate PDF view clockwise for easier reading.)
Cessna 172C custom checklists
Humor
Week 1Monday: Rain
Tuesday: Rain
Wednesday: No rain; no visibility either
Thursday: Take instructor to lunch. Discover I don't know enough to take instructor to lunch.
Friday: Fly! Do first stall and second stall during same maneuver. Cover instructor with lunch.
Week 2
Monday: Learned not to scrape frost off Plexiglas with ice-scraper. Used big scratch as marker to set pitch.
Tuesday: Instructor wants me to stop calling throttle "THAT BIG KNOB THING." Also hates when I call instruments "GADGETS"
Wednesday: Radios won't pick up radio stations, so I turned them off. Instructor seems to think I missed something.
Thursday: Learned 10 degree bank is not a steep turn. Did stall again today. Lost 2000 feet. Instructor said that was some kind of record -- my first compliment.
Friday: Did steep turn. Instructor said I was not ready for inverted flight yet.
Week 3
Monday: Instructor called in sick. New instructor told me to stop calling her "BABE". Did steep turns. She said I had to have permission for inverted flight.
Tuesday: Instructor back. He told me to stop calling him "BABE", too. He got mad when I pulled power back on takeoff because the engine was too loud.
Wednesday: Instructor said after the first 20 hours, most students have established a learning curve. He said there is a slight bend in mine. Aha--progress!
Thursday: Did stalls. Clean recovery. Instructor said I did good job. Also did turns around a point. Instructor warned me never to pick ex-fiancee’s house as point again.
Friday: Did pattern work. Instructor said that if downwind, base and final formed a triangle, I would be perfect. More praise!
Week 4
Monday: First landing at a controlled field. Did fine until I told the captain in the 747 ahead of us on the taxiway to move his bird. Instructor says we'll have ground school all this week on radio procedures.
Tuesday: Asked instructor if everyone in his family had turned grey at such an early age. He smiled. We did takeoff stalls. He says I did just fine but to wait until we reached altitude next time. Three Niner Juliet will be out of the shop in three days when the new strut and tire arrive. Instructor says his back bothers him only a little.
Wednesday: Flew through clouds. I thought those radio towers were a lot lower. I'm sure my instructor is going grey.
Thursday: Left flaps down for entire flight. Instructor asked way. I told him I wanted the extra lift as a safety margin. More ground school.
Friday: Asked instructor when I could solo. I have never seen anyone actually laugh until they cried before.
More Humor
WITNESS: Line attendant at KEUL airport."Pilot came to airport at 9 AM 10 Jul 1982. Line boy reports padlock on his hangar door was so rusted he had to break it off with a 10 lb. ball peen hammer.
"Also had to inflate all three tires and scrap pigeon droppings off windscreen. After several attempts to drain fuel strainers -- pilot finally got what looked like fuel out of the wings sumps. Couldn't get the oil dipstick out of the engine but said it was okay last time he looked.
"Engine started okay -- ran rough for about 1/2 minute. Then died. Then battery would not turn prop. Used battery cart and although starter was smoking real good, it finally started and the prop wash blew the smoke away.
"Line boy offered to fuel airplane up but pilot said he was late for an appointment at a nearby airport. Said it wasn't far. Taxied about 1/2 way out to active runway and the engine stopped. Pushed it back to the fuel pumps and bought 3 gallons for the left wing tank. Started it again. This time, he was almost out to the runway when it quit again. Put a little rock under nose wheel; hand propped it; and was seen still trying to climb in the airplane as it went across the runway. Finally got in it; blew out the right tire trying to stop before the cement plant.
"When he taxied back in to have the tire changed, he also had the line boy hit the right wing with 3 gallons of gas. Witness, who saw the take-off, said the aircraft lined up and took off to the north. Takeoff looked fairly normal -- nose came up about 300 ft down the runway. At midfield nose came down. Engine coughed twice -- then cut power and applied the brakes which made both doors fly open and a big fat brown book fell out on the runway and released probably a million little white pages with diagrams on them. Looked like sort of a snow storm.
"After several real loud runups at the end, he turned her around and took off in the other direction going south into the wind. Only this time he horsed her off at the end and pulled her up real steep like one of them jet fighter planes -- to about 300 ft -- then the engine quit!
"Did a sort of a slow turn back toward the airport -- kinda like that Art School guy -- and about 30 ft off the McDonald's cafe she started roaring again. He did sort of a high speed pass down the runway; put the flaps down to full and that sucker went up like he was going to do an Immelman!
"The engine quit again and he turned right and I thought he was coming right through the front window of the FBO; but he pulled her up -- went through the TV antenna and the little rooster with the North South East and West things -- over the building then bounced the main wheels off the roof of 3 different cars in the lot -- a Porsche, a Mercedes and Dr. Brown's new El Dorado.
"When he bounced off the El Dorado the engine roared to life and he got her flying. Came around toward the runway and set her down -- once on the overrun, once on the runway and once in the grass beside the runway. He taxied into the ramp -- shut her down -- and ordered 3 more gallons of gas. Said it was for safety's sake.
"Then he asked where the phone booth was as he had to call his student and tell him he was going to be a little bit late."