Danbury, CT
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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! Tie Down Procedures | The club preferred method of tying down our aircraft. During winter this procedure will greatly minimize the chance of frozen rope requiring a knife to untie the planes. |
| 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) |
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| 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. |
| New! 2009 AOPA seminar notes |
Gary Baluha's notes from the 2009 AOPA Summit: Night Flying Safety || How To Pass Any Checkride || Tips From Controllers 90K Word document |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| New! Wikipedia
for Flying20 |
A new wikipedia created by Gary Baluha about the Flying20
club. |
| 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
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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. |
| Trick-click: (back to top) Clicking a link normally takes you to the site. You have other options however, depending on your system. On most systems that allow right-clicking, doing so brings up a menu of options. On systems that don't (such as some Macs) trick-click by holding down the squiggle, apple, control, or shift key (depending on browser) while clicking. You can view and print any of the above PDF (Portable Document Files) using the Adobe PDF Reader. If you don't have the Adobe PDF Reader on your computer system, you can obtain a free copy from Adobe by clicking on the icon below or the following link: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html  Email
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