Disclaimer: Do not rely on any information in these pages and any of the links on my home page. As for the other servers that I have linked to: don't assume that the data they contain is correct. Linking to them does not mean that you can trust any information. The data on my home page may just be plain wrong. The FAA is always the primary authority for accurate information.

Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR)

Full set of FAR's. They are straight text with one file per part. (FAR parts 1, 11, 13, 14, 15, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 43, 45, 47, 49, 61, 63, 65, 67, 71, 73, 77, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 103, 107, 108, 109, 121, 125, 129, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 169, 170, 171, 183, 185, 187, 189, 191, 198, NT800, NT801, NT821, NT830, NT831, NT845).

Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) archive

This connection provides on-line access to almost as many FAR's. They are organized in files with one file per part (e.g. FAR 61, FAR 91, etc.). This makes it easy to retrieve larger amounts of the FAR's at once. These files are available in ASCII form, in ZIPped form and in Unix compressed form (FAR parts 1, 11, 13, 14, 15, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 61, 63, 65, 67, 71, 73, 77, 91, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 107, 108, 109, 125, 133, 137, 139, 141, 147, 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 169, 170, 171, 183, 185, 187, 189, 191, 198, NT800, NT801, NT821, NT830, NT831, NT845).

Airmen's Information Manual (AIM). 1994 (856k)

This link provides a text version of the AIM. It seems to be very up-to-date. There is also a version in compressed format for the PC (307k). This site has the AIM as one big text file.

Airmen's Information Manual (AIM). 1994

This link provides access to the AIM by chapters. You don't have to download the whole AIM, you can look up individual chapters. It also provides a search capability.

Pilot/Controller Glossary

This link provides access to the Pilot/Controller Glossary by letters. It also provides a search capability.

NTSB Accident Briefs

This link provides access to briefs from NTSB accident reports. It also has a search engine that allows to select briefs according to different criteria.

NTSB Accident Abstracts

This link provides access to some abstracts from NTSB accident reports.

NASA ASRS Homepage

Information about the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System.

Airworthiness Directives, NPRM's, etc
Airworthiness Directives, NPRM's, etc

These two links provide access to search forms for documents at the Governement Printing Office server. They include Airworthiness Directives, NPRM's, etc, but they are somwehat difficult to find. Start with the Federal Register database.

Certified Pilots Database

This database has about 600,000 pilots that can be searched according to several criteria. The database is current as of 1 December 1995.

Aviation Medical Examiners Database

This database has about 6,000 medical examiners that can be searched according to several criteria. You can even specify whether the examiner has to be a pilot and at what level. The database is current as of 1 December 1995.

N-Number lookup

This provides a lookup server for N-numbers (US registrations). The database is current as of 1 December 1995.

AC-61-12M Student Pilot Guide

Revised 1994. FAQ's for students primary through advanced.

Flight Planning Software

This provides links to flight planning software and current databases.

Planning, Databases

This site also has FAA databases for airports, VORs, and airways. Unfortunately the data are quite out of date by now.

Northwestern University aviation ftp site

Navigation and flight planning software and data (mostly the same as the previous link). However, this link includes the source code for fplan.

GPS information sites
GPS information at U. of Texas

Information about the Global Positioning System (GPS).

AMOS and AWOS

AMOS and AWOS The meteorological soup. From FAA Aviation News. A description of what the AMOS ansd AWOS systems are.

METAR/TAF

Description of the new Aviation Weather Formats.