Flying Tips

New! Hudson River Hangar Talk Notes
John Barrett's notes from the Hangar Talk session from February 18, 2012
New! Hudson River VFR Changes
Hudson River VFR corridor changes, John Barrett Hangar Talk session from February 18, 2012
New! ScheduleMaster Hangar Talk notes
John Butross' Hangar Talk PowerPoint presentation slides.
Collision avoidance
External site - The Air National Guard's collision avoidance compendium running over Google maps.
Special Use airspace
External site - The FAA's web page depicting special use airspace.
Angel Flight Dave McCormick on being an Angel Flight pilot and volunteering to fly people needing medical care and support.
2011 AOPA seminar notes
Gary Baluha's notes from the 2010 AOPA Summit: 
Tips from Controllers  ||  New England Weather  ||  Aging Aircraft and more.
34K Word document
2010 AOPA seminar notes
Gary Baluha's notes from the 2010 AOPA Summit: 
Tips from Controllers  ||  Ditching  ||  Real World IFR and more.
85K Word document
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.
FAA Official Intercept procedures
External site - Important to know! This is the official version.
Intercept procedures.
External site - FAA Safety's version with diagrams.
Danbury Airport diagram External site - Link to Airnav airport diagram in pdf format for Danbury.
Digital A/FD External site - Link to FAA Digital A/FD.
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 - The source for this was "Over the Airwaves" Dec 31, 2006 issue (see the Useful Links" tab).