Links to helpful sites

The Watsonville Fly-In and Airshow
Held every Memorial Day weekend, and is the longest-running aviation event on the Central coast.

AirNav
An unofficial (planning only) database of aeronautical information on airports and navigational aids.

AeroPlanner.com
Provides free online NOAA Sectional Charts.

Specialized Helicopters
Offers helicopter training at the Watsonville airport.

Aviation @ Landings.Com
A wealth of aviation information from aerobatics to aircraft sales to weather. A great site. Also containes databases of tail numbers, NTSB reports, etc.

Federal Aviation Administration
The FAA homepage. Check out their technical center.

Jeppesen
This is where most pilots go to buy their aviation books and supplies, from student pilot up through ATP.

Flight-History
Flight-History is dedicated to capturing aviation history. The archives feature a growing collection of photographs, stories and aircraft specifications.

FAA Written Test Preparation Page for the Private Pilot and Instrument Written Exam
Just as good as any of the commercial test-prep software, and it's FREE!

NASA
And...no aviation page can be complete without a link to the NASA homepage.

NASA Virtual Skies Site
Also check this out. Good for beginning pilots and a nice refresher for the more experienced.

Los Medicos Voladores
The Flying Doctors
A great organization of pilots, doctors, medical assistants and just great people who volunteer to offer medical services in Mexico. If you're interested in using aviation to help people, this is a great way to do it!

Angel Flight
Angel Flight links volunteer private pilots with people in need whose health care problems require long distance travel to and from medical facilities. Some pilots own their own airplanes and others are renters. Most fly 4-seaters and have only their private or instrument tickets.

Aviation Converters and Calculators
A large collection of helpful information.

See How It Flies
John S. Denker's online aviation textbook.

Airspace V
Online flight planner using Google Maps.