Quick fix? See how to get YAWS on your cell/mobile or see it in action now!
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YAWS has a family of products. It is called 'YAWS Smartphone'. This YAWS version, suitable for modern phones having an internet browser, is outlined below. The phone browser can either be native to the phone or a Java add-on - such as Opera-mini

The display of graphical data on mobile devices continues to grow. All cell phone users should try to access YAWS Smartphone as the starting point of choice. Phone browser settings may need experimentation to ensure images are rendered in the best possible way. Try to set your device so as not to cache (store) images.

However, if either your phone has no proper browser or your ISP restricts web access, but the phone can run Java programs, then Opera Mini is thoroughly recommended. Read about it and send to your mobile phone from here.

In areas of the World with a less than well developed phone infrastructure the older, text only, service at /wap is still available as an alternative for TAF and METAR data. But there will be no further development with the WAP service.

For further help on phones and access to YAWS, see the Phone help page with example interface

Produce a printable plogs ready for your kneeboard.

The following are web-browser based and make automatic calculations - no special software is required, but you do need Javascript enabled in your browser. You can easily print and save routes from your browser.
As always, check calculated results.

• Browser Plog - YAWS Pre-Flight Plog
  
  Plan your route and print almost all your pre-flight
  data from one interface.
  

Excel Plogs.

• Microsoft Office software required for these Excel automated forms almost all lack any attempt at aesthetics! There are hundreds of versions around; try one , two , three - these are neater than many but check their accuracy!

Plain Vanilla Plogs,
where you still have to do the hard work, come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Almost every pilot has there own 'best form' design. You may find some examples you like by following the links below.

• Browser Plog - as above but devoid of data.
• A VFR kneesheet in pdf format prints to A5
• A variety of free planning forms in various formats with an FAA bias.
• Same but somehow different, from Ed Santiago, a US flyer.

If you need to do your own calculations:-.

• E6B Whizwheel Manual Still prefer using your whizwheel for E6B calculations but lost the manual?
• E6B Calculator

European Aeronautical Information Services Database

• EAD Basic: Easy Access European Aeronautical Information. Needs free registration.
  

NOTAMS online

• UK NOTAM Office AIS - requires free registration
• UK Pre Flight Information Bulletins. NATS
• Narrow route briefing. AAF
• Schengen/European NOTAM source access to French and other European NOTAM
• World Notam + TAF/METAR reports Norwegian AIS
• Notam Plot Software. Needs free ''guest' registration
  with a pay-for-data service - this is, I think, a bit of a come on from Notam Plot's sponsor and recently 'FREE' users have had 'access problems' - surprise, surprise. So - NOTE the source of Notam Plot's NOTAM data may not always have a high availability.
  It is worth remembering - World NOTAM data are freely available via activitae.com! You should not have to pay for safety data!

• Route Planner Landings.com

• UK Safety Leaflets - GASIL

• World airport data. WorldAeroData.com
• Irish airfields - data and aerial views.
• French AIP for airports. Service de l'Information Aéronautique, Fr.
• European Airports A-Z
  

• Southern UK aerodrome radio frequencies CAA
• Northern UK aerodrome radio frequencies CAA

• Airport radio frequencies
  

• Links to global AIS sites
  

LFAT Compulsory customs clearance:

• If you are channel hopping to Le Touquet compulsory notification for customs clearance is now needed 2 hours before arrival.
  Use the online web form.

World Annual Sunset/Sunrise Table

• Sun or Moon rise/set table for one year U.S. Naval Observatory
  

• Look-up latest TAFs and Metars. Aviation Digital Data Services (adds.aviationweather.gov) a US National Weather Service agency
• Graphical METARs US Navy
• TAF decoder - a useful reminder.
• Another METAR and TAF decoder

YAWS (Yet Another Weather Service)

• If you have managed to avoid what this site is all about - so far - it is still not too late to use YAWS Smartphone for TAF and METAR data! YAWS is written in compliant XHTML - suitable for more mobile devices!

• ICAO code/decode : UK and International.
• UK stations supplying TAF and METAR data.

• Current European synoptic chart. UK Met Office
• European weather analysis Jeppesen
• Europe Weather Depiction Jeppesen
• 24 hr European synoptic chart. UK Met Office
• Europe chart. United States Air Force
• Europe 12 hr synoptic. United States Air Force (USAF)
• Europe 30 hr synoptic USAF
• Europe synoptic looper, current to 120 hrs ahead. USAF
• UK and France wind, temperature and visibility maps.
• Graphical synoptic This is different! It is not designed for aviation but gives MSLP (QNH), wind velocity, temperature, dew point and cloud cover for a very large range or European stations. Conditions in Dieppe or Dunkerque anyone? United States Navy

• Europe visible satellite Met Office
• Europe IR satellite Met Office
• latest Europe IR satellite NEMOC - US Navy NEW!
  The repeat update for these seems to change at weekends. If you get an error on this link try changing the hour field in the url to some time already passed such as 0600 or 1200. I'll watch this and try to automate it when I have time.
• latest Europe visible satellite NEMOC - US Navy NEW!
• Europe - various Nemoc (US Navy, Rota, Spain)
• Europe IR & Vis Meteosat eumetsat.org
• Flying a little further?   US National Weather Service

• Rainfall - actual and forecast animation. BBC
• Rainfall Radar Met Office
  

• Europe - see current rainfall radar by country. Various sources

• UK weather and 5 day forecasts from the BBC
• Current UK weather & 5/15 day forecasts. Accuweather.com
• Think we've got it bad? NOAA

Having a hand-held GPS has done wonders for my confidence in my navigation accuracy. But having a GPS as a secondary navigational aide is not without hazards; the books at cockpitgps.com are well worth reading to assist in avoiding common pitfalls. (Scroll down to the bottom of the opening page for downloads.)

The UK's CAA Safety Sense leaflet # 25 is also important reading.

Garmin have two useful guides for GPS users; a basic introduction and using a GPS with paper maps - not specifically for aviation. Both need Adobe Reader.

Another general on-line book for GPS users.

GPS in the IFR System: A Guide from the Ground Up

Partial Panel + VFR GPS

EasyGPS is free software that can help program your hand-held with routes and way points. The interface is clunky and non-intuitive. However it is free!

EasyGPS needs accurate airport/navaid data. To avoid error-prone hand-entering of data, navaid.com/GPX/ provide a data generator for any region you specify. Save the data as a gpx file to read in to EasyGPS. See the above online book at cockpitgps.com for more details.

GPS Waypoints for UK Towns and Motorway service stations. A zip file.

Garmin add-ons

LASORS together in one easily understandable book all the flight crew licensing information otherwise found in JAR-FCL, the UK ANO, AICs and the old CAPs 53/54. (Around 8Mb Adobe pdf file)

American Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) FAA

Several cockpit videos of altiport and glacier takeoffs and landings.

Adrian Cybriwsky, an FAA CFI, is writing an informative and authoritative article on the hazards facing pilots training in the US intending to fly in the UK and vice versa. It is work in progress.

See How It Flies: A new spin on the perceptions, procedures, and principles of flight by John S. Denker. But is he paranoid or what? I tried to load his book into Adobe Acrobat to read as a pdf file offline - My IP address got banned by his site for my trouble. Be careful to tip-toe around this guy!

Power Off Approaches This is much more than my instructor told me!

Airforce 1 landing at Heathrow Tuesday 18 November 2003
compressed RT for last 15 minutes of flight . - one .wav file 1.5Mb download/play

Practice making sense of live Air Traffic Control transmissions. Listen to ATC traffic around the world. Unfortunately, in the good old backward and paranoid UK, regulations prevent the re-broadcasting of ATC transmissions. You might want to ask your MP why!
The ATC audio streams linked to here may not be active now, nor are they necessarily active at the same time!

See real time traffic movements around several US airports

A very odd volmet station sent to me by Tony Ling from Proma, found on 10405Khz 06:00 UTC 01:04:05 - an mp3 file.

Want to improve your Franglais for those channel (La Manche variety) hops?
Using Franglais in the circuit.

www.freechecklists.net - hundreds of free downloadable aircraft checklists, pilot's notes, weight and balance spreadsheets, and more for Cessna 150s to Boeing 747s.

Wake turbulence as art?

Passenger Briefing Card and when that doesn't work you could always try this!

VOR simulator

V terms and what they mean?

Unusual aviation photographs

Everything you wanted to know about map folding but were too afraid to ask!

Looking for a parcel service? DON'T use UPS ughh! A tale of woe and poor service.

Looking for comfy shoes? Hotter Shoes Disaster sigh! A tiny tilt at complacent service. New!

The Hotter Shoes Saga continues A comment on Hotter Shoes A tale of a small public pillory.. New!

Insight into the staggering incompetance of a letting agent from Christchurch, New Zealand. New!

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