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One website for quick and easy text weather

Have you ever wanted a quick and easy way to get text weather (METARs, TAFs and NOTAMs) for a selected airport from one website?
This can be handy if you are wanting to check weather at an airport before a training flight or perhaps a flight just around the traffic pattern.   Maybe you don’t need a [...]

Aviation Photo Contest

Like most of the pilot’s that I know, I have another interest in addition to aviation, photography.  I love taking pictures, especially of airplanes.  That’s why my ears perked up when I got an email from my a fellow aviation blogger, Plastic Pilot.
In honor of 500th post at PlasticPilot.net, he is holding an aviation photo [...]

Find Historic Weather Information for Airports

Did you know you can use Wunderground to find historic information for airports? This can be extremely handy when flight planning a month or two ahead of time and trying to find out if you will be able to meet your performance criteria such as takeoff and landing distance which is temperature dependent.
To try [...]

A instructor’s recommendation: AirplaneBlog.com

One of the hardest parts about being a professional corporate pilot (at least is the case with my organization) is the demand or expectation that you are aware of the current market prices of many different airplanes.   With a highly volatile aircraft market, I find myself constantly searching for new resources that I can use [...]