Useful Website and Document References
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Thread practice and any user notes are described at the end of the URL listing (post #7). PLEASE RESPECT ANY COPYRIGHT OR OTHER RESTRICTIONS NOMINATED ON LINKED SITES. INDEX - (Note that these are not hyperlinks - you need to click on the relevant entries in following posts) ACAS/TCAS Aerobatics Aerodynamics Ageing Aircraft Problems Airbus Fly-By-Wire Technology Aircraft Accident Investigation Aircraft Accident Statistics Aircraft Accident Reports, Commentaries, etc. Aircraft Civil Registers Aircraft Design, Construction and Testing Aircraft Engines Aircraft Fleet Status Aircraft and Other Equipment Sites (Manufacturer/specific Types/Models) Airport, Airline, etc., Code/Decodes etc. Airport Engineering Airworthiness Air Traffic Control AIS/ATS Sites Almanac Astronavigation and Astronautics Atmospheric Optics Cabin/Cabin Attendents/Passengers Circuit Breakers Climbing Cockpit Design and Philosophy Cold Weather Operation Computers ... and Problems Commuter Category Notes Concorde Confidential Reporting Systems Conflict Resolution Corrosion Problems CRM Reports of Note Crosswind Operations Decision Making De-Icing/Anti-Icing Dictionaries, Quotations, etc Disorientation Diversions - Technical - For Those Dreadfully Slow Wet Afternoons on Airport Standby Environmental Concerns Ethics ETOPs/LROPs Fatigue Fire and Smoke Flight in Turbulence Flight Instruments Flight Manuals and other esoterica Flight Mechanics/Engineering/General Pilot Training Material Flight Operations Quality Assurance Flight Planning Flight Testing Foreign Object Control (FOC)/Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Fuel and Fuel Systems Glossaries GNSS/GPS/etc Ground Operations High Altitude Flight and Handling High Lift Devices Hydroplaning (Aquaplaning) Hypoxia and related problems Icing Instrument Letdowns (Procedure Design) Jet Upset Landing Techniques Leadership Lightning Strikes Maintenance Related Matters Manufacturers - OEMs Manufacturer Operational/Training Documents/Magazines (and back issues) Mapping, Maps, Charts, GIS Mathematics - Background Medical Matters Meteorology Miscellaneous Useful Sites Mountain Wave Upsets Navigation/Systems/Instruments Noise Noise Regulations etc Off Aerodrome Landings/Ditchings Operations in Adverse Weather Operations Specifications Other Useful Pilot, etc., Sites Passenger Evacuation Performance Pistons and Props Pitot Static Systems Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) - Hazards Psychology/Personality/Skills Testing/Profiling RADAR Radiation Levels Radio Matters Regulator/Registry Websites Regulatory Standards and Related Documents Rescue and Survival Equipment Restraint of Freight and Cabin Baggage Safety Management Systems Safety Related Matters Search and Rescue Spatial Disorientation Stalling Standard Atmosphere Standards - Miscellaneous Statistics Supercharging System Safety Tail Strike Takeoff Technical and Similar Reports - Magazines, etc. - Miscellaneous Test Flying Memorabilia Time and Timezones Training Matters TSOs Turnback after Takeoff Turning Performance Unit Conversions Vibration Volcanic Ash Vortex Generators/Nacelle Chines Wake Turbulence/Wing Tip Vortices Wheels, Tyres and Brakes Windshear Winglets |
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Airport, Airline, etc., Code/Decodes etc. Airlinecodes.co.uk Airline/Airport Codes etc. - Douglas Holland's website Airline Info Database - The Mueller Quadrant Airport Details - Basic (IATA/ICAO codes, lat/long, elevation, runway lengths) - ARG Airport identifier encode - Prof Stephen Emery Airport Engineering Airport Design - Prof Stephen Emery Airport Technology Site - Boeing New Aircraft Characteristics Related to Airport Planning - Uni Calgary Runway Foaming - FAA Certalert 02-04 Airworthiness Technical Airworthiness Familiarisation Course - RCAF Air Traffic Control North Atlantic Program Co-ordination Office - ICAO Pans-Ops (Large PDF file) AIS/ATS Sites Australia France New Zealand Poland UK Russian AIP Spain Almanac Almanac Calculator - Brian Casey Astronavigation and Astronautics Astronavigation - Peck/Purdue ? Definitions of Astronomical Events - GeoScience Australia (Sun)rise, Set, and Twilight Definitions - USNO Atmospheric Optics Atmospheric Optics - Les Cowley - unusual inflight pix always welcomed by email Cabin/Cabin Attendents/Passengers Fog in the Cabin - Airbus Circuit Breakers The Deliberately Weak Link in the Electrical Chain - Transport Canada article via Michael Murphy's site Climbing Climb Performance - USN FTM Cockpit Design and Philosophy Less Paper in the Cockpit Concept - Airbus Cold Weather Operation Altimeter Corrections (part of RAC 9) - Transport Canada Altimeter Errors at Cold Temperatures - draft FAA AC Getting to Grips with Cold Weather Operations - Airbus Polar Routes - Boeing The Chilling Result of Cold Temperatures on Barometric Altimeters - FSF report Computers ... and Problems Computer-Related Incidents with Commercial Aircraft - Univ. Bielefeld - Faculty of technology Flight Crew Reliance on Automation - CAA Paper 2004/10 Flight Deck Automation Issues - Oregon State Univ/Research Integrations, Inc Commuter Category Notes FAA Memo on SFAR 41 Concorde Concorde PPRuNE thread Confidential Reporting Systems CHIRP - UK Conflict Resolution Addressing Interpersonal Conflict - Carter MacNamara - MAPNP Corrosion Problems Corrosion Control for Aircraft - AvStop Magazine Corrosion - The Insidious Foe - AvStop Magazine Note on Mercury Corrosion of Aluminium - Dr Barry Ornitz CRM Reports of Note Please refer to the "Safety, CRM, and QA" Forum for numerous CRM references Error Tolerant Crew Procedures - Steve Last Evolution of CRM Training in Commercial Aviation - RAeS HFG - UTA Paper Evolution of CRM Training in Commercial Aviation - Helmreich, Merritt, and Wilhelm - UTA paper Methods Used to Evaluate the Effectiveness of .. - UK CAA SRG Paper 2002/05 Reasons for the Failure of CRM Training in Aviation - Johnson Uni Glasgow paper Threat Error Management - ICAO Crosswind Operations Landing Techniques - Crosswind Landings - Airbus FOBN Decision Making Pilot Decision Making - Transport Canada De-Icing/Anti-Icing De-Icing/Anti-Icing Fluids - Boeing De-Icing Forum - Aviation Ground Support Equipment site Holdover times - links - Transport Canada Descending Descent Performance - USN FTM Dictionaries, Quotations, etc Babel Fish - phrase translator - AltaVista Dictionary/Thesaurus - Dictionary.com FreeDictionary.com - translations Rhymezone.com Disorientation Disorientation - or; Whose Gyros Do You Trust ? - CAMI - FAA Spatial Disorientation - Seeing is Not Believing - CAMI - FAA Diversions - Technical - For Those Dreadfully Slow Wet Afternoons on Airport Standby Clock Watching - Yugo Nakamura ? IQ Tests - Tickle Your Brain Website Environmental Concerns The Environmental Effects of Civil Aircraft in Flight - Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Ethics Ethics Courses in Engineering - Texas A&M University ETOPs/LROPs Fatigue Aircrew Fatigue - CAA Paper 2005-04 Fatigue Countermeasures Group - NASA Fire and Smoke Response to In-Flight (Cabin) Smoke - Boeing Cargo Smoke and Fire - C/D/E Compartments - Boeing |
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Flight in Turbulence Flight in Severe Turbulence: A Close Encounter of the Rough Kind - Airbus Flight Instruments Erroneous Flight Instruments - Boeing Flight Manuals and other esoterica Blackbird SR-71 - SR-71.org - Paul Kucher Flight Mechanics/Engineering/General Pilot Training Material Aerospace Digital Library - Georgia Institute of Technology - Aerospace Engineering Airbus Briefing Notes - Airbus Aviation Courses - Miscellaneous Notes - click on subject headings - Selkirk College - Canada Flight Theory Modules - AUF See How It Flies - Dr John S Denker Technical Flying - Prof David F Rogers - USN Academy - collected technical reports Thai Technics Flight Operations Quality Assurance Flight Data Monitoring - CAP739 - UK CAA Flight Planning International Flight Information Manual - FAA Internet Flight Planning Centre - Norwegian emphasis Flight Testing Aircraft Performance Flight Testing - AFFTC-TIH-99-01 - USAF Dryden Flight Research Center - NASA - Education page Dryden Technical Reports Server FAA Heavy Flight Test Guide Introduction to Flight Test Manoeuvres - NASA Dryden Society of Experimental Test Pilots Society of Flight Test Engineers Wet/Cont Runway spray test - also shows trailing static cone - B737 - Airliners.net photograph Foreign Object Control (FOC)/Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Foreign Object Debris and Damage Prevention - Boeing Fuel and Fuel Systems Aeroshell Book, The Fuel Densities - Transport Canada Fuel dumping - B742 - Airliners.net photo Fuel Imbalance - Boeing Glossaries Aviation Abbreviations and Acronyms - CASA - Australia Aviation Abbreviations Decoder Aviation Acronyms and Abbreviations - FAA GPS Site Aviation Glossary - AOPA Avionics Glossary - Rockwell Collins Aviation Glossary - Scott Williams Aviation Terms Glossary - Key Publishing CSGNetwork Glossary - very extensive and useful link Jargon Buster - IFALPA GNSS/GPS/etc All About GPS - Trimble EGNOS/Galileo - European Space Agency Geospatial Intelligence - National Imagery and Mapping Agency - US Government Global Positioning System Overview - Dr Peter H Dana - GPS and related subject material GPS Information - UK Ordnance Survey GLONASS - Russian MoD Site - English language optionGPS Information Website - Joe Mehaffey/Jack Yeazel RAIM Prediction - EuroControl Augur Site Ground Operations Preventing Runway Incursions - Airbus High Altitude Flight and Handling High Altitude Handling - Effect of CG - Boeing High Lift Devices High Lift Systems - part of an Aircraft Design course - Stanford Hydroplaning (Aquaplaning) Don't 'Hang Ten' in your Airplane - Avemco via AvWeb article Landing on Slippery Runways - Boeing Airliner magazine Oct/Dec 1992 - App E of RVTV Report 1999011 Tire Hydroplaning - NASA Langley - videos Hypoxia and related problems Altitude induced decompression sickness - CAMI - FAA Altitude Tutorial - Mountain Medicine Information Center Hypoxia - CAMI - FAA When Humans Fly High: What Pilots Should Know ... - AvWeb article Icing A pilot's guide to inflight icing - NASA Effects of Icing on Control - FAA AC 91-51A Icing Branch - NASA Glenn Instrument Letdowns (Procedure Design) Circling differences between PANS/OPS and TERPs - UK CAA document Jet Upset Aerodynamic Principles of Large Airplane Upsets - Airbus Aerodynamic Principles of Large Airplane Upsets - Boeing Airplane Upset Recovery - Airbus Upset Recovery - FAA FlightLab Handling Notes Downloads Landing Techniques Preventing Hard Nosegear Touchdowns - Boeing Leadership Big Dog's Leadership Page - Donald Clark Lightning Strikes Lightning Strikes and Airbus FBW Aircraft - Airbus Lightning strike sequence - B747 - Kawasaki via NWS - a MUST see URL Maintenance Related Matters Maintainers Bulletin Board Maintenance Cost Analysis - Airbus Operator/Manufacturer Scheduled Maintenance Development - ATA MSG-3 - via FAA website Sjap's B737 Maintenance Site Manufacturers - OEMs Boeing Honeywell Manufacturer Operational/Training Documents/Magazines (and back issues) Aero Magazine - Subject Index - Boeing Avco Lycoming 'Flyer' Key Reprints - Textron Lycoming CodeOne Magazine - Lockheed Martin - military FAST Magazine - Airbus Understanding Takeoff Speeds - Airbus Flight Operations Briefing Notes |
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Mapping, Maps, Charts, GIS FLIP Charts, etc - National Imagery and Mapping Agency - US Government Mathematics - Background Mechanics and Mathematics Reviews - ETPS Test Pilot Course Notes (via NTPS site) Miscellaneous Maths - Plus site The Math Forum@Drexel - Ask Dr Math - Drexel Univ Medical Matters BMI calculator - National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Meteorology Aspects of Cloud Formation - Uni Leeds School of Earth and Environment Flight Weather Meteoblue - useful links - Uni Basel Photographs - Cloud Formations - Cloud Appreciation Society Photographs - Mammatus Cloud - Jorn Olsen Saturated air - water vs temperature - Penn State Univ Useful Things - Uni Wyoming Miscellaneous Useful Sites Piano Aerospaceweb.org Alf501h's PPRuNe Website Area Tecnica - Iberia Pilots' Website (?) - useful links similar to this thread Currency converter - Yahoo Useful links to other sites - AirServices Australia site AvWeb site Flight Safety Foundation Index of on-line articles - Air and Space magazine PilotPointer.com - lots of useful links RAeS homepage RAeS Library Skybrary Smilies, All you ever wanted to know about Thirty Thousand Feet - lots of links to other places Wing Files - Nathan Gutierrez - similar to this thread with links to various places World Fact Book - US Government Mountain Wave Upsets B707 Loss over Mt Fuji - BOAC 911 - March 1966 Navigation/Systems/Instruments Aviation Formulary - Ed Williams EGPWS Website Great Circle Distance Calculator - Prof Stephen Emery Great Circle Mapper - Karl L Swartz Great Circle calculator with midpoint option - AeroPlanner ILS Errors - B767 ILS Incident at Apia - NZ CAA Report Lateral and Vertical Navigation - Boeing PNR Usage - offtrack PETs & PSRs - PPRuNe thread PNR Calculation - differing fuel flow PSRs on the circular slide rule - PPRuNe thread Polar Route Operations - Boeing Slide rule manuals - Eric Marcotte Slide rules and other mathematical instruments - Chris Sangwin Noise Making a Quieter Jet Engine - Marcus Williams - CalTech Noise Regulations etc Airport Noise Regulation Information Site - Boeing Off Aerodrome Landings/Ditchings Ditching Myths - ETS Operations in Adverse Weather GA Pilot Behaviour in Adverse Weather - ARIR B2005/0127 - ATSB Getting to grips with CAT II/III Operations - Airbus - via Wingfiles Operations Specifications Ops Specs Site - MMELs etc - FAA Other Useful Pilot, etc., Sites b373.org Code 7700 - G450 emphasis DutchOps.com Smart Cockpit thirty thousand feet aviation directory Whitt's Flying Passenger Evacuation A Safety Study of Evacuations of Large, Passenger-Carrying Aircraft - TSBC (Canada) Report SA9501 Performance Aeroplane Performance - UK CAA Booklet Aircraft Performance Data (GA) - myplane.com Aircraft Performance Database (GA) - risingup.com Aircraft Performance Database - EuroControl Getting to Grips with Performance - Airbus (via Wingfiles - mix of pilot and engineering approach - useful pilot study paper) Max Range & Endurance (piston) - Prof. M. Byington Propeller Aircraft Performance - ALLSTAR Understanding and Using Performance Data - BMAA Technical Leaflet Level Flight Performance - USN FTM Vx,Vy and a TechLog discussion of the above site - PPRuNe thread Excess Power Characteristics - USN FTM Pistons and Props Aircraft Engine Historical Society AvWeb's Pelican's Perch articles - John Deakin Pitot Static Systems Pitot Static System Performance - USN FTM Portable Electronic Devices (PEDs) - Hazards Effects of Interference from Cellular Telephones on Aircraft Avionic Equipment - UK CAA EMI - The Nigel's Aviation Safety Page (also has a comprehensive URL link listing for other aviation entities) Interference from mobile phones - UK CAA Report Interference from PEDs - Boeing Psychology/Personality/Skills Testing/Profiling CBT Cognitive Skills Testing - CogState Ltd German Aerospace Centre (DLR) Site RADAR Radar Hazards - anecdotal tales - PPRuNe thread RAF Radar Standard Technical Training Notes (AP 3302 Pt 3) - Dick Barrett (scanning part completed) Terminal Area Weather Radar Technique - PPRuNe thread Weather Radar Guide - Everything Weather WXR-700X Operating Manual Weather Radar Description - Chuck Harman X band radar tips - PPRuNe thread Radiation Levels Inflight Radiation Levels - FAA CAMI Site Radiation doses in operation, pilots & cabin crew Radio Matters Q Codes - Ralf D. Kloth Radio Telephony Manual - UK CAA CAP 413 Selcal Encoders - iPhone and IPad Smartphone and tablets Regulator/Registry Websites Canada Regulations India Regulator Seattle Aircraft Evaluation Group Home Page - FAA site US Registry Spanish Registry https://www.part-aero.com/ |
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Regulatory Standards and Related Documents AC - Advisory Circulars - FAA - (Explanatory Supporting Documents for the FARs) Canadian Regulations DOT Archival Special Collections Library - google for "DOT library" will link to this site - very useful historical data FAA Ops Specs Page - FAA FAA Resource Link Site US Federal Regulations - Comprehensive - US Government FAR - Federal Aviation Regulations (CFR 14) - US Government Historical AC/CAM/CAR/FAR - US DOT EASA - JAR 25 (now CS 25) ICAO Documents STC - Supplemental Type Certificates - FAA - USA TC - Type Certificates - Australia TCDS - Type Certificate Data Sheets - FAA - (Basic Certification Data - Types/Models) TSO - Technical Standards Orders - FAA - (Equipment etc. Design Standards) UK Military Aircraft Standards Rescue and Survival Equipment Eject, Eject - Ejection website - Jim Griffiths Manufacturer/Supplier Contact List - Outdoor/Rescue/Survival Equipment Restraint of Freight and Cabin Baggage Overhead Stowage Bin Article Retention - Boeing Safety Management Systems Introduction to Safety Management Systems - TP 13739 - Transport Canada Helicopter Risk Management - TP 10112 - Transport Canada Safety Management Systems for Commercial Air Transport Operations - UK CAA CAP 712 Safety Management Systems - What's In It For You ? - AUS CASA Guidance Booklet Score Your Safety Culture Checklist - Reason via Transport Canada site Safety Related Matters 4th European aviation safety symposium Advanced Qualification Program - FAA Aviation Safety Magazine - FAA Aviation Safety Site - Airbus Aviation Safety Site - Boeing International Aviation Safety Assessment - FAA Search and Rescue Australia - AMSA website Spatial Disorientation Spatial Disorientation Countermeasures - USAF Stalling Stall Speed Determination - USN FTM Standard Atmosphere Standard Atmosphere Computations - Applied Aerodynamics: A Digital Textbook - Desktop Aeronautics, Inc. Standards - Miscellaneous UK Defence Standardisation Website Statistics Electronic Statistics Textbook - StatSoft Sample sizes - Prof Stephen Emery Supercharging Supercharging (Those Fire-Breathing Turbos (with links to subsequent articles) - John Deakin - Pelican's Perch System Safety System Safety - Transport Canada System Safety site Tail Strike Tail Strike - Boeing (Douglas) Takeoff Erroneous Takeoff Reference Speeds - Boeing Rejected Takeoff Studies - Boeing/Evergreen Takeoff and Landing Performance - USN FTM Technical and Similar Reports - Flying Magazines, etc. - Miscellaneous Archive FAA/CAA Reports - US DOT NACA Reports - Archival Data. (The site has links to NASA reports) NACA Report Listing - Cranfield NASA Glenn Research Center NASA History - NASA NASA Technical Reports Server Situational Awareness reports - SA Technologies USN Approach Magazine - US Navy Test Flying Memorabilia Test Pilots and Test Aircraft - Neil Corbett's site Time and Timezones GMT Site - time check and useful timezone data Training Matters Transition training onto advanced cockpits - Ecottris MIT Aerospace Pilot Training Videos Technical Standards Orders (TSOs) US TSOs European TSOs Australian TSOs Turnback after Takeoff Should you turn back ? - Prof David F Rogers - USN Academy The Possible "Impossible" Turn - Prof David F Rogers - AIAA Paper Turning Performance Turning Performance and Agility - USN FTM Type Certificates EASA Unit Conversions Ask Numbers Site Calculator.org site Convert (download address) - Josh Maddison ConvertIt.com Dictionary of Units - Prof. Russ Rowlett Google Site Calculator Vibration In-Flight Airplane Vibration - Boeing Volcanic Ash Volcanic Ash Avoidance and Recovery - Boeing Vortex Generators/Nacelle Chines Vortex Generators - Andre Ludovic Vortex Generators - an example (Ryanair B738) - Airliners.net Wake Turbulence/Wing Tip Vortices Airplane Trailing Vortices - Boeing (Von) Karman Vortex Flows - Prof M S Cramer Wake Turbulence - NZ CAA Booklet Wingtip Vortices and Contrails - Airliners.net photograph Wheels, Tyres and Brakes Tire Care and Maintenance - Desser (Goodyear) Goodyear Tyre Manual Tyre Care Manual - Dunlop Wheel and Tire Servicing - Explosion Risks - Boeing Windshear Windshear - era paper Winglets About Winglets - Mark D. Maughmer Blended Winglets - Boeing |
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Thread Practices and Philosophy As most would be aware, to run a web search is a lengthy, involved, and often frustrating process for many people - the ability to shortcircuit that process in a complementary way and get to basic serious information is, we think, worth the effort on our part of setting upsjap, a "useful" URL listing. We will add URLs as they come to note. It is not intended that we try to emulate the standard search engines which remain your basic resource for this sort of material. Rather we intend to end up with a list of good quality URLs which provide a sound starting point for researching a given subject ... quality, not quantity, is to be the catchcry. In addition, please consider running searches within PPRuNe as many old threads have very useful data. When it comes to searches, there are system considerations which can present problems. One which gives regular trouble relates to there being a limit to the number of hits returned (around 200, I think, and if I see the correct number again, I'll provide it). This means that, if the hit list is too long, it is truncated. The fix is to be smarter in the search definitions to reduce the size of the data set .. a bit of trial and error will see you right on this one. I recall when I first found out about this ... a couple of threads I had "lost" suddenly were found following judicious refinements to my specific search criteria. Please do add a post with any useful sites which you find from time to time. The only thing we ask is that before doing so you have a good look at the site's content and ask yourself the following questions (a) does the information principally relate to aviation technical material likely to be of use and interest to a reasonable number of PPRuNe members. Be aware that the link to aviation need only be VERY tenuous if the information is otherwise likely to be of interest to PPRuNe folk ... (b) is the material of good quality and does the information appear to be reasonably authoritative. It is not intended that URLs be 'academic' in nature but rather that the information is sound and of pertinent value to members' interests. Please keep in mind that our people vary from the newer members of the Industry through to rigorous academic technical personnel including more than a few people with PhDs (FYI - at least two Moderators on the site hold doctorates), at least one University Professor, and the like. We would like to think that we can offer something of interest to the entire range of people who use PPRuNe. The intent, however, is to keep the listing to those sites which are reasonably subject serious lest the thread become so unwieldy as to be too difficult for people to bother using. (c) does the site have any, or have links to any, inappropriate material - especially from the viewpoint of material lacking in good taste. Clearly such things would not be appropriate for this forum to appear to endorse. (d) the site should have not more than a minimal amount of material or links which could be considered to be advertising. If you consider the site to be of exceptionally good value but it does have significant advertising, then please indicate this. If you access a link suggested by another member's post before the link is included in the main post and you wish to second the recommendation, please do make an appropriate supporting post. Clearly, such secondary endorsement of recommendations will assist the Moderators in their review process. If you have any other suggestions for the thread please raise these in a post. As with the Safety Forum protocol, posts will be actioned and then deleted to keep the thing under control. Moderators, as their workload permits, will make a brief review of recommended sites and a decision regarding listing will be made. It is important that members be aware that site material will not be peer-reviewed and may contain material which is not rigorously correct in technical fact. Sometimes recommended links will be faulty and, after several attempts to hyperlink, will be discarded. If you were the recommender, please advise if you know of any newer link for the item. Any use made of listed URLs is at the risk of members and PPRuNe neither endorses nor makes any warranty as to the accuracy or suitability to purpose of any link or material contained in a webpage related to a link. Should you find subsequently that the list contains URLs (a) with inappropriate areas or links (b) which are no longer valid or useful we would appreciate a post to draw our attention to the matter. Do keep in mind that the apparent failure of a link may be due to a server outage or some other net problem so it is a good idea to retry an apparently failed link at a later time. In the case of defunct or relocated URLs, please (a) indicate clearly which entry is the subject of your observation - I have to find it, remember .. (b) indicate the new URL, if appropriate. We have no intention to tread on copyright or other sensitivities and, should any site owner not wish to have a link included here, please post accordingly or email the Moderators. As the thread has grown without too much in the way of preflight planning, there will be things in it which could be done in a better way or links located in a more appropriate Index position. Please feel free to suggest changes to the Index and specific location of links as you feel the need .. The Moderators, quite obviously, will have no hesitation in co-opting any useful site which we see in our net wanderings .... Consistent with workload, listings periodically will be sorted to make their use a little easier. Where suggested URLs are incorporated, credit for the poster's effort is recorded below. best regards, The Tech Log Moderators :ok: User Notes File downloads usually involve a little bit more than just clicking on a link. For IE, for instance, try right clicking and selecting Save Target As ... Separate posts with too much detail for inclusion in the summary list - Search guidance - #8 - OverRun Saving links to a Mac - #9 - compressor stall Google Search + operator - #10 - mross Acknowledgement of members who have taken the time to suggest additional sites, etc ... with the Moderators' thanks. 1A380, Aerolearner, ALF18, AviationGlossary, B737MRG, betaboy, bflyer, Blown Seal, compaero, compressor stall, DC-8, Deaf, Dub Trub, Epsilon Minus, E.Z. Flyer, FlightDetent, galley power, Genghis the Engineer, glnflwrs, hawk21M, hvogt, Joaquin, Jhieminga, jimgriff, justintime5, Lolegas, Marcel MPH, MikeKnight, Mutt, mstram, nishta, OverRun, RHLMcG, Rivet gun, RJM, Ronnie69, safelife, selfin, sjap, SNAM, spacecowboy, swh, vonbag, wondering, wxgeek ..... plus all those good folk whose links in various other forum threads we've pinched over the time that this thread has been in existence ...... :D |
SEARCHING TECH LOG (or any PPRUNE) - UPDATED NOV 2011
One of the great strengths of Tech Log is that it is an ever-growing repository of knowledge which can be searched. The search function is not completely friendly, so here is how to get the best out of it. The latest version of vBulletin software has a different set of rules for searching, and so this post has been amended and updated: 1. Click on search on the top menu, then click on advanced search on the drop-down menu (since the default for a normal search is to search only the very recent posts). 2. Change the 'find posts from' to an appropriate time span - I use 'a month ago' and 'older' for instance. Default is very recent posts. (You can save your preferences by the way, at the bottom of the screen). 3. Use several keywords to limit the search results. With only a single keyword there are potentially thousands of results but since there is a limit of +/- 400 posts in the search response, many won't be listed and will be discarded, and the results may not be much use. Typically the oldest posts get left out. It looks like the limit is one of 19 pages of responses. 4. To search with more than one keyword, the search phrase is a bit specific. So if I was chasing up discussion on brake cooling during turnarounds and whether the brakes should be released to aid cooling, my search would be looking for brakes cooling and release. I would use: RIGHT WAY(S) brakes cooling release brakes AND cooling AND release WRONG WAY brakes +cooling +release 5. To search with one keyword excluded, say my search was looking for brakes without any discussion on fires, I would use: RIGHT WAY brakes -fires WRONG WAY brakes NOT fires 6. Check the number of results you've got. It should be less than say 25 or even 50 (well maybe 100 if the term is common). If the results are somewhere near 400, then you have hit the limit and an unknown number of posts have been discarded. The latest vBulletin version just stops searching, but doesn't tell you that it has. It looks like the limit is one of 19 pages of responses. Take a look at the last page of your search responses - if the posts are dated in the last year or two, then clearly a lot of the earlier posts have been missed. Rephrase your search, or limit the forums you are searching, or put in date limits, etc. |
is there an easy way to save all of these references to my mac computer? Then open all the pages you want to bookmark in a new tab (command click, it does also help if you have this set up in safari preferences to open behind the open tab). Then click on the link (chain) icon on the top and all the links are displayed. Method 2 - Slightly clunkier, but saves the links in bookmarks... Right click on the bookmarks area of the browser in safari (just under the address bar) and create a new folder, then name it. Open all the pages you want to bookmark in a new tab (command click, it does also help if you have this set up in safari preferences to open behind the open tab). Right click on one of the open tabs - there should be a menu item of "add bookmark for these [number] tabs" Click it and add it to the folder you created (and named appropriately) above. |
If you want a keyword to appear in your search results enclose it in double quotes. The + operator no longer works.
Read all about it Google Drops Plus Sign from Search Operators - SEO Chat |
Thread suggestions updated at 17Jan. Still have to run a check on all hyperlinks to eliminate any delinquent calls where I can't find a later URL.
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Space Weather = active
Hi, had a look here: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
Sun is active now, and ´reaching out to earth´. This is also interesting and active: https://www.ilmailusaa.fi/warnings.h...#select-area=4 |
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It is outstanding and good
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Hello,
I have two documents for the tech library 1. A Boeing 2023 December directive on GPS interference (777) 2. A 742 page study by Boeing: Jet Transport Performance Methods Where can I I send them and to whom? |
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