The Flying 20 Club Library

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Official Documents (back to top)
Constitution	Flying 20 club constitution, as of December 2005
Bylaws	Bylaws, as of October, 2006
Operating Procedures	Operating procedures, as of October, 2006
NEW! Winter Operating Procedures	Winter operating procedures, by Brad Freeman (our secretary) as of December, 2008 (see also Winter Flying, in the section below)
Membership application form	Membership application form for printing, in PDF format. You can print it blank, fill it in and sign it, then mail it to us, or fill it in on your computer, print it and sign it, then mail it to us.

How to operate our equipment (back to top)
LASAR ignition	Important preflight information about the new LASAR ignition system in 8198P (may she rest in peace).
NEW! Winter Flying	Winter flying operations (for all our aircraft), by John Barrett, Maintenance Officer, 455H. See also Winter Operating Procedures, in the "official documents" section, above.
Lycoming Seminar	1.5 MB PDF file distilling a safety seminar given by John Barrett in 2005.
Garmin 430/430A	Garmin site - Get the new 400W/500W training tools. The WAAS upgrade introduces significant differences in our unit; read up on them here. Free simulator and WAAS training video are on the right side of the page. Note - Windows XP or 2000 are required for the simulator. Windows 98 is not supported.
Garmin GMA 340 Audio Panel Manual	Garmin site - Download or order the manual. This link displays search results, no need to re-search.
Garmin GNS 430 Manual	Garmin site - Download or order manuals and other documentation. This link displays search results, no need to re-search.
Garmin 430 Basic Operations 2006	3 MB power point presentation by Brad Freeman in 2006. See also MS Flight Simulator add-ons, under flying tips, below.
Garmin 430 Basic Operations 2005	(older) 2 MB power point presentation by Brad Freeman in 2005.
Garmin 430 Advanced Operations 2006	4 MB power point presentation by Brad Freeman in 2006.
Garmin 430 Advanced Operations 2005	(older) 3 MB power point presentation by Brad Freeman in 2005.
S-TEC55 autopilot operations	a 2 MB power point presentation by Brad Freeman in 2008
WX-500 Stormscope operations	a 1 MB power point presentation by Brad Freeman in 2008
S-TEC55 autopilot POH	A 2.2 MB PDF document comprising the POH for the S-TEC 55 autopilot. This autopilot is in 455H.
ST-360 POH	A 300 K PDF document comprising the POH for the ST-360 altitude module for the autopilot in 455H.
Autopilot III B	A 2.4 MB zip file containing .JPG scans of the Piper Autocontrol IIIB manual. This autopilot is in 07B and 37B.
Autopilot usage (web page)	How to couple our autopilots to the Garmin 430. Updated and somewhat reformatted from the .doc file below.
Autopilot usage (.doc)	The original 262K Microsoft Word .doc version of the page above.
Northstar Loran & GPS operation	Detailed operation of the Northstar navigation units.
8198P test flight	A Word .doc file with the results from John Barrett's test flight of 8198P, after installation of the LASAR system. Alas, this aircraft perished in a hangar fire in September 2007, but the results, especially as compared with the 8237B test, are still relevant.
8237B test flight	A Word .doc file with the results from John Barrett's test flight of 8237B, without the LASAR system, as a baseline for the Archers.
Folding Bike	a 2.5 meg Word .doc file with illustrated instructions (by Brad Freeman) for assembling and folding the Dahon folding bikes.
Access Schedule Master by phone	Instructions for phone access to Schedule Master.

Flying tips (back to top)
Collision avoidance	External site - The Air National Guard's collision avoidance compendium running over Google maps. It needs a wide screen, or horizontal scroll bars appear. I wish web sites wouldn't do that! The site is processor intensive. (This means slow on older systems like mine.)
Special Use airspace	External site - The FAA's web page depicting special use airspace. According to the FAA, it "may not be complete". Go figure.
Use of flight simulators	Dave McCormick on flight simulators and proficiency.
MSFS 2004 add-ons	How to add the Archer to MS Flight Simulator 2004.
Angel Flight	Dave McCormick on being an Angel Flight pilot and volunteering to fly people needing medical care and support.
2008 AOPA seminar notes	Gary Baluha's notes from the following 2008 AOPA seminars: Surviving After a Forced Landing \|\| Single-Pilot IFR \|\| Stall/Spin Awareness \|\| The PARE spin recovery procedure \|\| Single Pilot Flying Strategies (Rod Machado) \|\| Managing Your Engine for Peak Performance 76K Word document
Pinch Hitter flight guide	1.9 MB Word 97 document by Jose Helu. It is an early version of the flight guide given to our pinch hitters, and goes over the basics of pinch hitter piloting.
Intercept procedures	Important to know!
Danbury Airport diagram	An old (but useful) airport diagram showing Reliant's location, and other points of interest on the airport. It's a large image on the screen, though the image is a smallish (75K) .gif file.
See How It Flies	External site - John S. Denker's excellent (html) book on how airplanes behave, and why they behave that way.
VOR demo	External site - A Java applet for visualizing radio navigation. It shows two user-selectable instruments (VOR, HSI, ADF, etc) along with a map view with an airplane you can navigate. Programmable wind too. Takes some time to load.
Usenet newsgroups	An article on our site about how Usenet newsgroups work, and how to set up a newsreader.
Water-finding paste	External site - I came across this in the "over the airwaves" Dec 31, 2006 issue (see next section, below). It looks interesting, but I've never tried it so cannot comment.

Other useful external aviation sites (no warranties expressed or implied!) (back to top)
Airnav.com	Fuel prices and fees, airport and FBO information.
100LL.com	Fuel prices and fees, airport and FBO information.
aviawiki.com	This is a new wiki for aviation destinations. Being a wiki, you can edit it yourself to add or modify entries. It's fairly new, so there's not much there yet, but feel free to add to it, making it a valuable resource for all of us.
fltplan.com	This site has (among many other things) preferred routes that you might expect should be in the AF/D but are not. Also has weather fuel prices, flight tracking, and charts. I found out about this at a recent FAA safety seminar. Some services may require (free) registration
NACO free digital products	Free digital approach plates and other charts. Now includes the AF/D! Click on home for more.
Myairplane.com's approach plates	Free digital approach plates, IFR and VFR charts at this link. Click on home for much more.
Passur.com radar monitoring	"almost live" and historical radar for several airports.
aviation toolbox.org	Free downloadable digital sectionals. Huge files. Georeferenced too.
flightaware.com	Beta site (testing phase). Track any IFR or commercial flight. Historical info too.
mypilotstore.com	Paper sectionals and other charts at a discount, with free shipping! Other pilot stuff too.
NACO charts	Paper charts and such from the source. No discount on charts, but the AF/D is discounted with free shipping if you buy the subscription. NACO has free digital charts too; see link higher up in this list.
liveatc.net	Live ATC radio feeds and archives.
overtheairwaves.com	Aviation newsletter suggested by Jerry Pozniak and Bob Miller
landings.com	Many things, including flight planning (click on "flight planning" near the top right and then "flight planning" on the resulting page; get terrain avoidance graphs among other things)
skyvector.com	Digital sectionals you can zoom and drag in your browser window. Faster but less capable than runwayfinder.com, below.
runwayfinder.com	Digital sectionals stitched together properly, apparantly running as a google maps application. You can zoom and drag just like google maps, and also chart course lines (it plots something close to the great circle route). You can also overlay google street maps and sattelite photos, and it shows TFR boundaries. Mongo cool! Note - sectionals are not quite current.
adventurepilot.com	Searachable listings of $100 hamburger sites, lodgings, campsites, aviation museums, and other destinations. Other content available for members; membership is free.
AVweb	A pretty good web aviation magazine. It is updated as the articles come in, daily for some sections. It is however starting to use annoying scrolling text and other distracting "features" of web publishing, and it requires (free) registration. Still well worth reading.
GPSFlightTracker	ATC Radar running over google maps and satellite photos.
Acme mapper	Type in latitude and longitude, and this google map app tells you where it is, overlaying it on your choice of map, aerial photo, NEXRAD display, or other things. Mongo cool, and a good way to check where intersections really are for flight checking GPS. Actually, plain old google maps will do it too, (just type in coordinates) but this offers other backdrops.
New England Pilots Group	A web based "let's get together and maybe fly" group, hosted by meetup.com. I found this at a safety seminar at HPN; I haven't tried it but it looks interesting.
rentplanes.com	Search for planes to rent when you are away from ours, such as on vacation. The web site also claims to list FBOs, flight schools, and flying clubs, but I don't see an easy way to do that, outside of simply looking for planes.
Flying 20 Club store	Direct external link to the Flying 20 club store, operated by Corporate Casuals. Only the gateway page is on our site; the direct link is not.

Weather resources. (external sites) (back to top)
Standard briefing	NOAA's page with links to the tools used in a standard briefing, including surface analysis, pireps, constant pressure charts, and more.
Weather resources	Michael Hodish's weather page containing links to maps and other weather resources.
weather.unisys.com	Weather maps including upper air data and aviation model forecasts. Also lots of info on interpreting these charts. For example, click on map for local (consumer) forecast, or click on the GFS/Avn model link under "Forecasts" for medium range forecast maps useful in aviation. Click the sample map and then select from the menu at the top of the resulting page.
USAirnet.com	Hourly surface forecast at DXR (other locations available) prettied up from the National Weather Service's Aviation Model. Main site has other air sports info.
ADDS weather	Aviation Digital Data Service. Includes icing potential charts at various altitudes. Really cool.
ADDS icing	The main icing page of the ADDS.
Lightning strike map	Map of lightning strikes for the entire country, for the last several hours, color coded to help track storm movement.
NOAA graphical forecasts	Interactive map showing many different forecast elements (temp, precip, wind, sky cover, etc). Just hover the mouse over an entry and the map displays the forecast. Much more available at the site.
US-Radar	Hi Res radar loop of the entire US, from srh.noaa.gov.
TWC radar	Near-live radar and radar forecasts from The Weather Channel (Danbury CT at this link). The interactive part requires flash and displays the radar and clouds over aerial photos. You can drag the image (center what you want under the crosshairs) and then zoom in. Site contains popup ads.
Radar color key	A comparative color key for several different radar sources.
Northeast Leaf color and drop map	A map of the Northeast's fall foliage colors and another of leaf drop, from foliagenetwork.com. Other areas and past archives available too.
Northeast Leaf Peeping map	A map of the Northeast's fall foliage colors, from weather.com. Other areas, past archives, and more inside.
Lightning theory and detection	A PDF file with a fascinating explanation of how lighning works and how it is detected via instrumentation.
Flying stories (back to top)
Cirrus test flight	José's test flight of a Cirrus SR-22 in September 2006
Streamer clouds	Images of some interesting streamer clouds photographed in Oregon September 2005.

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The Flying 20 Club Library

Except as noted, all link targets are on our site. PDF files and external sites should open in a new window, or Trick-click to download PDF and DOC files directly. (Trick click varies by system; see below)

Except as noted, all link targets are on our site.
PDF files and external sites should open in a new window, or Trick-click to download PDF and DOC files directly.
(Trick click varies by system; see below)