In this table you find my favorite aviation related web sites. Feel free to send me an email with your tips.
Flight preparation |
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| Belgocontrol | Perfect for Belgian weather, NOTAMs, flight plan |
| Nav 2000 | Very nice French site with up to date airport info and even airport photos for preflight orientation |
| NOAA | Web site with the world's up-to-date METARs &TAFs |
| SIA France | Official French AIP: good source of up-to-date French charts |
| Fly in France | Nice amateur website for anglophone pilots wanting to fly in France |
| Euro.wx | Free Meteo and Flight Prep Site |
| Routefinder | Flight Simulation tool to find IFR routes in Europe |
| CFMU | CFMU Eurocontrol IFR plan checking page |
| Olivia | French official flight planning site. Freely accessible |
| Autoplan IFR | Very nice IFR flight plan tool to find an IFR route in Europe's complex airspace |
| Vertical cloud profiles | As it says: vertical cloud profiles ! |
| IFR Flightplan Pro | Excellent program for IFR flight preparation in Europe |
| Airnav | Good for flight & airport prep in the US |
| Duats | The official US flight prep website |
| Skyvector | Great US flightpreptool: contains all VFR and IFR charts, so you don't have to buy them way beforehand |
General information |
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| Piloten | The forum is interesting as Belgian (wannabe) pilots share information |
| Fly for Fun | New web site oriented towards the Belgian GA pilot |
| Airliners | Looking at airplane pictures and dreaming about their destinations |
| Wings over Asia | Nice but slow web site about GA in Asia |
| Piloot & Vliegtuig Magazine | Dutch magazine for which I wrote "Airstrippen in de Tropen" |
| Bestuur der Luchtvaart | Belgian CAA with circulars and other useful info |
| Planecheck | Ever dreamt of buying your own airplane? |
| Alien Flight Student Programme | Web site to go through approval when seeking instruction in the US after 9/11 |
| AeroBEL | Web site on Belgian Aviation |
| West Wings | Web site on Aviation in West-Vlaanderen: nice ! |
| Luchtzak | Complete web site on Belgian aviation |
| Airliners Photos | Gorgeous photo database of airplanes |
| Piloten zonder Grenzen | NGO in Africa |
| Kortrijk Airport | Official web site of my homestead |
| Earthrounders | Inspiring site about those who fly around the earth |
| Ghent Airfield | Ghent Airfield (Sint-Denijs-Westrem) doesn't exist anymore, but a bunch of people do maintain a website about it: full of nostalgia ! |
| PPL/IR | Excellent website about private instrument flying in Europe |
| Professional Pilots Rumour Network | Want the latest gossip in airplane land? |
| Over The Airwaves | Contrasting views from a seasoned flight instructor |
| Aopa Never Again | Bad stories which end up good. Always a good read. |
| Flightlevel 350 | NIce site with aviation movies ... like YouTube with wings |
| Penn Avionics Video | Very instructive video on the classic Piper Century IIIb autopilot |
| Hangar Flying | Nice site with Belgian hangar flights |
| Takeoff Tube TV | Aviation videos galore ! |
| Flightplanet | Another European focused used airplane market site ... keep dreaming ! |
Flying clubs & aircraft rental |
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| Royal Zoute Aviation Club | My flying club in Kortrijk, Belgium, with three well maintained aircraft and a socially thriving club |
| Kortrijk Flying Club | The other, more dynamic, flying club in Kortrijk |
| Royal Selangor Flying Club | My old flying club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| FlightGest Inc. | FBO in Raleigh, North-Carolina, where I rent some Cessnas every now and then |
| Aeroclub d'Alès et des Cévennes | Nice club in Deaux, where I flew in the summer of 2006. Becoming a member was as expensive as paying the visitor's rate... |
| Qualiflight | Repair & rental accredited by FAA on Kortrijk |
| Horizon | N-reg Mooney rental in Lille |
| GATC | N-reg aircraft rental & pilot shop in Brussels |
| Aeroclub Borinage | Aeroclub on St Ghislain airfield, renting aircraft including an N-reg Piper |
| Mojave Aviation | Excellent aircraft rental in Las Vegas |
Friends |
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| FAAPilotCoach | My local contact in Southern California: always ready to help & advise. Check it out ! |
| Gatewing | Brother in law's company dealing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ! |
| Fly November Blog | Dagboek van een vliegende radiopresentator |
| Jetperformance | From my instrument rating instructor, containing amongst others all information on US FAA regulations |
| BelFlyer's GA Weblog | BelFlyer is a flight buddy who also keeps his experiences in a web site, a site which also gave me inspiration for this site |
| Paraflight | An inspirational web site of how a fellow club member learned to fly again in his own adapted airplane after become paraplegic after a car accident |
| Lambert Aircraft | Aircraft manufacturer on my airfield ! Check it out. |
| Aerostudent | Website Aerostudent Oostende |
| myTransponder | Social network website for pilots |
| Peter2000 | Peter H.'s very informative website about IFR flying in Europe |
| Frank's Flight(b)log | Nice blog in flyforfun.be from Frank Mathys |
| Cowygr8 | Nice chap, nice blog of a Swiss N-reg jockey ... and nice videos too |
Podcasters |
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| Airspeed | Best aviation podcaster on the web! It feels like our ways are a bit parallel, only he lives in aviation heaven: the US. |
| The Finer Points | Nice short educational episodes (audio ánd video). Perfect to fly on the ground while mowing the grass on a Saturday afternoon |
| Fullflap TV | English video podcaster: good work ! |
Flight Simulation |
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| Avsim | News on flight simulation add-ons |
| Ivao | Very nice concept of online flight simulation and ATC over the internet. Check it out: you will be amazed! |
Link pages |
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| Luchtvaart Wereldwijd | Page full of Belgian aviation links |
| 2link.be | Links to various Belgian aviation sites |
| vliegen.startpagina.be | Another site full of links |
| Thirty Thousand Feet | And here's another one ... |
