You will find below a collection of useful web sites and pages related to general aviation in Canada, the USA and around the world. If you have a useful link you would like to share, please send it to marketing@rfc.ca.
Transport Canada regulations, guides and other useful material
- Current Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs) and Standards: Canadian Aviation Regulations
- Civil aviation terminology: good source for translations of aeronautics terms: Civil Aviation Terminology System
- Designated Airspace Handbook in electronic format: Designated Airspace Handbook
- Aeronautical Information Circulars maintained by Nav Canada and updated every 28 days: Aeronautical Information Circulars
- Transport Canada Safety Newsletter Index: Aviation Safety Letter
- “Weather to Fly” a series of Transport Canada videos on weather related subjects: Weather to fly
General aviation resources
- Avinca Limited – Groundschool training for pilots. Chris Hobbs and Jean Rene de Cotret offer online IFR courses and tutoring for all: http://www.avinca.ca/
- SmartPilot.ca is a aviation website to enhance flight safety in Canada, and provide a rich resource of interesting and informative articles, videos and interactive programming to help better inform pilots about how to be safer in the air: http://smartpilot.ca/
- Canadian Aviation Historical Society: http://www.cahs.ca/
- Forum dedicated to pilots in the Ottawa area, created and administered by an RFC member: http://www.ottawapilots.ca/
- The David Charles Abramson Memorial Flight Instructor Safety Award for superior teaching skills and outstanding leadership qualities. Must also have demonstrated distinguished performance through his/her accomplishments and a real devotion to the advancement of Canadian aviation safety: http://www.dcamaward.com/
- Aviation Medicine International (AMI) Inc. delivers high quality professional consulting services in all aspects of aviation medicine: http://www.aviationmedintl.com/
- The official home of TV host and producer John Lovelace and the Cross Canada Century Flight 2009: http://www.johnlovelace.com/
- Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots: http://www.canadian99s.org/
- Canadian Owners & Pilot Association (COPA) – The voice of general aviation in Canada: http://www.copanational.org/
- COPA’s local flight number 8 in Ottawa. Members meet on the 4th Wednesday of each month except December: http://web.ncf.ca/fn352/flight8/
- e-catalogue source ($CAN), and a lot of free useful resources: http://www.aerotraining.com/
- Mail order Pilot shop located in Montréal. Good selection, great service: http://www.vippilot.com/
- Local Ottawa store with all Canadian VTA, VNC and IFC Charts: http://www.worldofmaps.com/
- Canadian Aviation: news, links, classified: http://www.canadianaviation.com/
- Aviation Talk2k.com – Internet talk radio on aviation subjects. Hosted by the FAA: http://www.talk2k.com/faa/
- News and topical articles on general aviation subjects: http://www.generalaviationnews.com/
- Operating information for Textron Lycoming Engines. Textron Lycoming on-line provides articles on a variety of subjects, like engine leaning, fuel injection vs carburetor, engine break-in, and many other subjects: http://www.lycoming.textron.com/
Flight planning tools
- Plan a cross-country flight & print off a customized “trip-tick,” a ticker-tape-like map of the route. Membership now required for planning services, but there are still interesting free services: http://www.aeroplanner.com/
- Common weather links for pilots based in the Ottawa area: http://www.myaviationweather.com/
- US weather service that also shows Southern Canada weather prognosis for next 48 hours: http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/projects/adds/progs/
- Canadian aviation weather and flight planning data: http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca/ (Local Ottawa VFR weather and NavCanada Route Planning form)
- Can’t figure out what these METAR and TAF codes mean. Here is the official lexicon: Environment Canada’s Manual of Abbreviations: MANAB
- Are your maps and CFS up to date? Check here and see: Nav Canada Charts and Publications
- Laurie Davis’ CoPilot iPhone app for navigation planning and related databases: http://www.ljd-tech.com/copilot/
- Databases for CoPilot: CoPilot Waypoint database
- Here is an example of a long trip planned with CoPilot and the result, by Chris Hobbs: Summer 2008 flight to Lourdes de Blanc Sablon
