Useful Links for Pilots
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AERO magazine is published quarterly by Boeing Commercial Airplanes and is distributed at no cost to operators of Boeing commercial airplanes. AERO provides operators with supplemental technical information to promote continuous safety and efficiency in their daily fleet operations.
From Airbus Safety Library, Briefing Notes have been developed to constitute a safety-awareness reference for all aviation actors, regardless of their role, type of equipment and operation.
Briefing Notes provide an equal focus on Flight Operations (Volume 1), Cabin Operations (Volume 2) and Maintenance (Volume 3).
The Aircraft Engine Historical Society encourages anyone with aircraft engine information of historical merit to submit that information to their editors. All forms are accepted and appreciated, including hand written manuscripts, drawings, notes, audio recordings, video recordings, and photographs. However, in order to speed publication of your article our limited staff of editors suggests that your work conform to the following guidelines.
Aircrew Buzz is an aviation news blog by B. N. Sullivan, featuring crew-centered news, with commentary about current events and issues of interest to the aviation community.
Aviation News for Crews
The articles on Aircrew Buzz cover airlines, air cargo, and business aviation. The focus is on news and information of interest to those who fly for a living -- both pilots and cabin crew.
This is not a blog about the business or policy aspects of the aviation industry, except as they apply to or affect crew members, e.g., mergers, capacity reduction, bankruptcies, etc.. Neither is Aircrew Buzz a travel blog. While passengers may find some material of interest to them, the target audience is working crew members.
Airliners.net is the biggest and most visited aviation interest site on the Internet, logging over 80,000,000 page-views from 900,000 distinct users every month. Our users and community include airline management, frequent air travelers, aviation photographers and enthusiasts which come from every corner of the globe. We strive to be the international center of aviation online and are continually growing the site to include better features and more content.
A site where you will find articles, podcasts, videos about crashes, investigations, and Airline safety, and airline security insights
The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) is the largest airline pilot union in the world and represents nearly 53,250 pilots at 37 U.S. and Canadian airlines. Founded in 1931, the Association is chartered by the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress. Known internationally as US-ALPA, it is a member of the International Federation of Air Line Pilot Associations.
This is a great site to learn about the history of commercial aviation.
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As you know, ANAC (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil) is the Brazilian agency responsible for the regulation and the safety oversight of civil aviation. Established in March 2006, ANAC incorporated the staff, the structure and the functions of the Air Force’s Civil Aviation Department (DAC), the former civil aviation authority. And, as you can see, they have an English version of the site. Great to practice your reading and scanning. They also offer links to valuable sites:
A biblioteca da SEP coloca à disposição dos técnicos da ANAC mais um serviço de informação: a divulgação eletrônica dos sumários correntes de periódicos. Para acessar o sumário do periódico, click no número desejado. Os interessados em algum dos artigos poderão solicitar cópias para bibliotecadigital@anac.gov.br.
This is another very comprehensive web site and the title reflects its content. The address above will take you directly to an extensive series of pilot stories, each entitled ‘Never again’. These stories are all about an error of judgement on the part of a private pilot, which could have been fatal and the pilots explain what they learned from these experiences.
This video podcast series is produced by the Aerospace Network and covers a range of topics pertinent to air traffic control students. Each episode provides in-depth coverage of a particular instructional topic, using examples from the Academy airspace. Watch examples in action, thanks to University of North Dakota's state-of-the-art radar and control tower simulators.
These videos, presented by the Student Air Traffic Controller Association - University of North Dakota, deal with varied topics: runway incursion, safety alerts, etc.
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This is an excellent site for keeping up to date with the latest aviation news. You might wish to register for free daily news updates to your email address.
A bit of everything about aviation. As they say, "Your Source for Aviation Videos, Aerospace Jobs, Aircraft Pictures and Aerospace History.Resources & Information include Airliner Memorabilia, Flight Tracking, Airplane Photos,Aircraft Artwork, Commercial Airliner Movies, Flight Supplies, NORAD, Military Fighter Jet Videos,R/C Airplane Movies, Discount Airline Tickets, Area 51, Flight Schools, Fact Sheets & Aerospace. Facts on Airliners, GPS, Aircraft, Military, Jets, Military Artwork, Historical Airliners, Aircraft Movies & Videos, Paper Airplanes, Flight Schools, Aerospace Jobs, Affordable Vacation Packages,Skunk Works, Flight Calculators, Airline Memorabilia, Aircraft Models & Vintage Aircraft Posters.'
This site aims to provide a learning base where aviation users can post occurrences they have experienced or observed, get advice about those incidents, as well as provide comments and solutions to other users.
Practice your Aviation English Listening Skills by working the exercises that we have put together for you. The key to read back efficiently is to have very great listening skills and to write down as quickly as you can. Then, everything will fall into place.Practice your Aviation English Listening Skills by working the exercises that we have put together for you. The key to read back efficiently is to have very great listening skills and to write down as quickly as you can. Then, everything will fall into place
A blog by a Brazilian,George Rocha, from Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, Comandante de jato pela Flight Safety International Academy, em Wichita, KS, USA; Aeronaves: 12+ tipos; Aeroportos: 280+; Horas de Vôo: 8500+. There you will find interesting insights and information both in Portuguese and English.
Independent Aviation News Resource where you will find great podcasts and articles, pictures, etc...
The Aviation Herald concentrates on "Air Transport", meaning in general The Aviation Herald will report only about commercial flights or commercial operators involving airplanes with 19 passenger seats or more.
Incidents will be reported only during active flights, meaning from entering the takeoff runway to leaving the landing runway, other incidents at the gate or during taxi are summarily dismissed. Accidents involving commercial flights with 19 or more seats are reported as soon as The Aviation Herald gets to know about them.
If it happens in business aviation, it’s covered in Aviation International News every month. With twice the content of competing magazines, Aviation International News reaches a highly targeted, active readership of 40,107 professionals in 148 countries.
Special sections spotlight regional airlines, helicopters, avionics, maintenance and FBOs.
Revista e portal de aviação em portuguës
Mission Statement
"Providing everyone with a (professional) interest in aviation with up-to-date, complete and reliable authoritative information on airliner accidents and safety issues".
Content / scope
The Aviation Safety Network is a private, independent initiative founded in 1996. On line since January 1996, the Aviation Safety Network covers accidents and safety issues with regards to airliners, military transport planes and corporate jets.
The ASN Safety Database contains detailed descriptions of over 10,700 incidents, hijackings and accidents.
Here you will find activities to assess, review and improve structure and vocabulary. (Go to Course samples - Flight deck)
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Many comic stripos but also some serious stuff.
This site contains various Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR or Black Box) transcripts of aviation accidents and incidents. Covering a wide range from large commercial aircraft to commuter, corporate, and even private aircraft.
It is the biggest database of CVR transcripts found on the internet.
Currently hosting more than 145 transcripts.
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ELPAC (English language proficiency for aeronautical communication)
On this site you will find a sample test of English proficiency for ATCs. Here is how it is introduced by its publisher:
The aim of these versions is to familarise you, as an air traffic controller and potential ELPAC test-taker, with the format of the two ELPAC test papers and the type of questions you can expect.
Please take a little bit of your time to do the sample version of Paper 1 Listening Comprehension - about 40 minutes, and to have a look at the demonstration videos of Paper 2 Oral Interaction. There are three new videos with scenarios suitable for Tower, Approach and En route controllers. Each has a duration of about 22 minutes. We are sure you will find this time well spent.
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EUROCONTROL (The European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation)
EUROCONTROL, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, is an intergovernmental organisation made up of 38 Member States and the European Community.
Their primary objective is the development of a seamless, pan-European air traffic management (ATM) system. They contribute to making European aviation safer, performance-driven and environmentally sustainable.
EUROCONTROL was originally founded in 1960 as a civil-military organisation to deal with air traffic control for civil and military users in the upper airspace of its six founding European Member States. EUROCONTROL has developed into a vital European repository of ATM excellence, both leading and supporting ATM improvements across Europe.
Today, together with its partners, EUROCONTROL is committed to building a Single European Sky that will deliver the ATM performance required for the twenty-first century and beyond.
If you intend to fly in Europe, it will be a very useful site. They also have a TV channel on YouTube.
Podcast about aviation careers. Useful to listen to if you're looking for a job.
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The FAA is the civil aviation authority of the US. Their web site is extremely comprehensive and contains interesting and official information and statistics on a wide range of safety issues, amongst other things. This site is worth browsing or visiting when you have a particular subject to research.
A cool site to track flights around the planet, get news and pictures, etc.
A YouTube channel full of great training videos
Flightglobal is the website of Flight International, Airline Business, ACAS, Air Transport Intelligence (ATI), The Flight Collection and much more; including daily news updates, and searchable directories.
This website now contains the content of the current issues of Flight International and Airline Business as soon as it is published along with searchable archives going back to 1996 – accessible by everyone.
Flightglobal.com also covers worldwide major air shows (Paris, Dubai, Asian Aerospace, and Farnborough) allowing non-attendees to follow the events from a distance.
Job-seekers will still be able to access Flight’s market-leading range of aerospace vacancies – entirely for free.
Further functionalities are continuously being added to flightglobal.com, extending the range of information available and also making for a more engaging web experience.
Flight Safety Foundation provides a forum where air carriers, manufacturers, suppliers, maintenance organizations, aviation regulatory agencies and flight crewmembers share information, ideas and best practices for safety.
You can also subscribe to their magazine (it's free)
AeroSafety World continues Flight Safety Foundation’s tradition of excellence in aviation safety journalism that stretches back more than 50 years. The full-color monthly magazine, initially called Aviation Safety World when it was launched in July 2006, offers in-depth analysis of important safety issues facing the industry, along with several new departments and a greater emphasis on timely news coverage — in a convenient format and eye-catching contemporary design. While AeroSafety World has taken the place of the seven newsletters the Foundation used to produce, the archives remain active and back issues of the newsletters are still available. See Publications for more information.
Here you will find glossaries related tol aircraft maintenance, landing gear, cockpit communications, oil and gas industry.
Here you will find examples of pilot and controller assessments around the world (speaker 068 was tested in Brazil) and their detailed rating reports. These are from 2007 but ICAO is working on a new edition.
Brazilian Blog about Aviation English, exercises and tips among others.
For those interested in reading about commercial aviation history in Brazil, take a look at O Rastro da Bruxa published on Google Books.
Ao trilhar o rastro da bruxa, o leitor irá afastar e observar os bastidores da aventura do século XX - a aviação. Entenderá como e por que os acidentes ocorreram, e perceberá o quanto essas tragédias ajudaram a melhorar o nível de segurança das viagens aéreas de nossos dias.
An Australian site dealing with safety issues.
This is an excellent site if you wish to listen to some real air traffic control from different locations around the world. You can choose your geographical area at the top of the page and the locations which are marked in green are accessible. Most of what you listen to in this way is entirely routine, but the site also collects particularly interesting segments where ‘something happened’, though you need to join up to listen to these.
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This is a great virtual tour for aircraft lovers.
The NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) is the body which investigates all aviation accidents in the US. They also investigate accidents abroad when a US registered aircraft is involved, or when their expertise is called upon. You can use their extensive database to research a particular accident or a type of accident (report, transcript, animation). There is also a section dealing with incidents.
pilot resources and aviation weather for general aviation
This heading on the home page is somewhat misleading as the site contains information on many issues. Amongst others, it’s worth looking at the flight safety section, the aviation history section and the section on aviation humour.
A site with lots of safety tips you can subscribe to (for free), listen to and read.
A site where you will find pictures and a short description of accidents up to the current date.
The Professional Pilots Rumour Network: This site is an interesting exchange of news and views. As its name suggests, it’s a site for pilots, but anyone concerned with aviation will find many interesting topics and stories to read about.
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- Here is a site by Eurocontrol where you can refresh your knowledge on phraseology. You can listen to examples of each phrase and get used to a wide variety of foreign accents.
A site dedicated to the continuous improvement of aerospace safety.
An interesting site where you can find toolkits with videos and self-study material on different topics such as safety behaviors or communication.
Smartcockpit.com is a tremendous free online aviation library, where anyone can obtain specific information on virtually any topic. Detailed systems summaries, extensive aircraft questionnaires and an Instructor’s Corner section (which includes detailed and well-illustrated briefings) exist for many active commercial aircraft. We continue to further develop the remaining aircraft and are looking for qualified pilots willing to share their expertise and documentation.
The mission of this website is to provide the best aviation reviews for such items as aviation software (Mac®, iPhone®, Android™, & iPad® apps), aviation hardware (GPS, radios, glass displays, etc), aviation gadgets & gear, aircraft demos, industry news, interviews, videos, podcasts, photos, and much, much more!
A glossary of aviation terms. A good explanation (and the equivalent term in French)
Lots to read and listen to.
Every week the UCAP gang gathers in the virtual hangar to talk about all things GA.
You can listen-in as some of General Aviation's most knowledgeable, opinionated, and plain-speaking characters, do some online hangar-flying.
This site is an excellent resource for the teacher who is new to the world of aviation. It is an educational site, set up by NASA education, designed for schools and featuring many of the subject areas included in Aviation English[1]. Technical explanations are clear to follow and interesting interactive activities are included.
Lots of videos to watch, applaud, criticize, have fun, etc.
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