Trip Reports
Mostly VFR:
Spain, September 2003
Crete, September 2004
Spain, June 2005
Santorini, September 2005
Mostly IFR:
Prague, June 2006
Corfu, August 2006
Aero2007 - Friedrichshafen 2007
Crete, Croatia, September 2007
Zaragoza, Spain, November 2007
Tempelhof, Germany, August 2008
Granada & San Sebastian, Spain, September 2008
Miscellaneous "peter2000" Articles
6 years with the Socata TB20
Satellite Weather Data in the Cockpit
IO-540 Engine Rebuild (SB569)
TB20 Vibration Analysis
Doing an FAA PPL/IR
Aircraft transfer to N-reg
Portable Oxygen
Portable Oxygen - System Comparison
IFR Flying in Europe
Cloud Tops Forecasting
License Privileges, Aircraft Registers, Etc
Component Documentation Requirements
Shadin flowmeter problems
TB20GT Oil Pressure Indicator
Garmin 496 installation in a TB20
Bose-X headset adaptor for ICOM A22 transceiver
KFC225 autopilot failures
KI229 RMI failure
KLN94 failure
JAA Audiogram for IR
Electronic Fuel Management (113kb PDF)
Extended Warranties
Pictures
Weather
NWS TAF/METAR
Metbrief
Avbrief
Avbrief fast PDA OPMET page
(TAFs/METARs)
Actual Tephigrams (ascents): Univ
of Wyoming Univ
of Cologne
Forecast Tephigrams: Meteoblue
NOAA weather (GFS)
Sembach/USAF (Europe) weather (incl. icing charts)
Navlost
Dundee Satellite Station
UKMO satellite
images
ECWMF
Activitae/YAWS
US National Weather Source
Wetterzentrale.de
XC Weather
NOAA radar images etc (USA), compact site
Jeppesen
weather page
French Meteo
Turkey
weather
ProPilots site
European weather map
Thermodynamic
diagrams in meteorology
NASA Pilots Guide to
Icing
Radar/Sferics
Meteox site (weather radar for most of Europe)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Hungary Radar
Italy
Italy and others
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Slovakia 1 2
Slovenia
Spain
Switzerland
A small collection of sferics (stormscope) sites
OPERA European Weather Radar project (not
useful)
Route Planning Resources
Autoplan
ASA Routefinder
CFMU
Eurocontrol Flight Plan Validation Site
NATS UK Notams
Homebriefing
Eurocontrol RAIM prediction tool
DSC UK
RAs
Route Planner with winds aloft
Forms/Documents
ICAO Flight Plan Form 85k
editable PDF 117k DOC
General Aviation Report 336k
editable PDF 267k
DOC
General Aviation Report 2004 2004
URL Local Copy (330k
PDF) 1.5MB DOC
General Aviation Report (Sussex Police) URL
Local Copy (fax to +44 1293 592815)
GAR form error !!
GAR form transmission matrix (Sussex, UK)
Guernsey General Aviation
Report 360k PDF
HO60 Fuel Drawback Form 275k PDF
136k editable PDF 84k
DOC Current
Drawback Rates
GENDEC 13k PDF 54k
DOC
Foreign AIPs, approach charts, etc
Eurocontrol
National AIP Collection
Eurocontrol EAD site
Flying in France
FrancoFlyers
French AIP etc
(SIA) / Olivia
Review of some
French airfields
Spanish Aviation
Netherlands AIS
Belgium/Lux
AIP
Greece - HellasGA AOPA.gr
Airport Opening Times
Croatia
Norway
Austrian Flight Planning
Pilotfriend resources (US site)
Visiting UK military airfields
UK Highlands &
Islands Airport Information
Overflight / Landing Permit Agents
White Rose
First Charter
Overflight
FSI
Air Law & Regulations
UK 2008 Air Navigation Order
(cap393.pdf)
UK Terrorism
Act 2000 Chapter 11 (Schedule 7 is relevant)
Summary of "Public Transport"
regulations (UK CAA) (181k)
ICAO Documents (local copy, incomplete)
ICAO Documents (CAA Denmark, incomplete)
ICAO Doc 7030
ICAO Doc 7300
EASA
Approved Equipment
EASA
STC List
UK Travellers Guide (Prohibited Substances etc) URL
Local Copy
Eurocontrol IFR Enroute Charges
Miscellaneous Stuff
John Deakin
Jeppesen Flitestar terrain data errors
GPS Vulnerability Report (Volpe Institute) (467k) URL
Local Copy
GPS Risk Assessment Study (John Hopkins Univ) URL
Local Copy
TB20 Takeoff Performance (500k PDF)
TB20 power settings #1 (251k)
TB20 power settings #2 (144k)
IO540-C fuel consumption
IO540-C sea level
performance
EDM700 example chart (192k) another
partly at FL140
EDM700 Windows data download software DOS v1.2
Original EzTrends
EDM700 download protocol URL
local copy: sourcecode windows
executable
GAMI injector graphs (EGT versus common fuel flow rate) before
after
Mixture control procedure for climb, with EDM engine
monitor (337k PPT)
Loads of aviation related
formulae
John Denker - How It Flies
Ground Effect
VHF/UHF frequency/channel table
More of the above
JAA Publications
http://aviation.hasle.com
ICAO
EUR/NAT Regional Database
A. Pape's Colour Vision paper URL
local copy
JAR Colour Vision Study URL
local copy
Shock Cooling article (950k GIF) Another
Copy
Historical
Airport Weather Data
A really
bizzare website on aircraft reg numbers / the result of the efforts of millions
of aircraft spotters
UK based foreign registered
aircraft
Socata TB series
data local copy
CAP694 VFR/IFR Flight Planning
Guide Local copy 6/2006 (PDF, 5MB)
CAA
License/Rating Issue Stats
Aircraft VAT/import/export consultant
Thuraya WWW to SMS gateway
Example of correct
radio communication (non-UK airspace) 6MB MP3
FAA Stuff
U.S.
Federal Aviation Regulations
N-reg aircraft document carriage requirements
FAA Part 61 FAQ (from 2004; no longer on FAA website) 2.9MB
DOC 3.2MB PDF
FAA Accident Data Breakdown 2001 (PDF, 2.5MB)
U.S. weather reporting abbreviations
etc
FAA
Study on Cirrus Spin Recovery local
copy
FAA Exam practice
FAA
article on repairs local copy
FAA rules on owner-produced
parts local copy
FAA rules on owner-installed parts
FAA
Major Mods (Part 43)
FAA
page on ICAO English language proficiency & license replacement local
copy
FAA
STC Database
Other Stuff
Generic TB20 Handbook (1080k PDF)
Avionics Manuals
Map Stuff
Page updated 19th November 2008
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