New at Thirty Thousand Feet
New March 11, 2009
- Flying Podcast This podcast covers all forms of aviation in the UK. They talk to anyone with an interest in aviation, from museums to flying instructors to people that just have an interesting story to tell. Produced by Steve Cooke, who flys a PA-28 from City Airport Manchester.
- Build A Foamie This website helps people build RC aircraft. You might be surprised to see how fun and easy it is to build an RC plane from scratch using foam and other inexpensive materials. Some Plane Building Instruction Kits are available to make it easy to build and fly RC planes.
- Xoar Props An ISO certified propeller manufacturer of performance 2, 3, and 4 blade wooden and carbon fiber sport propellers for RC model aircarft.
- Paragliding and Paragliders Paragliding information and resources: history, equipment, how to find a good school, acro, paramotoring plus loads more.
- Volare Jets An executive private jet provider offering aircrafts to best meet the needs of on-the-go clients.
- FunnelScope "Travel search socialized."This hotel search engine gathers hotel reviews across the Internet and ranks them for you in one page. You can search for hotels by attributes like family friendly or luxury. Leverage Twitter to get input from your friends via FunnelScope's tools.
- The Red Hangar Aviation classifieds. Regular adds with photos only $1.00 for 30 days. Featured Ads $2.50 for 30 days.
- iFurloughed A community for displaced aviation employees started by a furloughed airline pilot.
- GTA Airports Taxi & Limo Airport limousine, taxi and charter service offering rides from your hotel, home, office and the Toronto Airport.
- Airport Despatch Professional taxi transfer from Heathrow airport, Gatwick airport, Stansted airport, Luton airport and London City airport.
- EnRisk Partners A Houston-based energy hedging, trading, and risk management advisory firm providing jet fuel hedging advice.
- Hayward Flight An FAA certified flight school located at the Hayward Airport in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- SheltAir Aviation Services An FBO network with locations in Florida, Georgia and New York: FLL, PMP, ORL, DAB, JAX, PIE, PFN, SAV, PBG, ISP, LGA, FRG, FOK.
- NATAS Corporation Services include contract managment, maintenance, repairs, technical services, records review and reconstruction, failure analysis, engine condition monitoring, training and consulting for JT8D series engines.
- Enginaires Aero Club A member-owned flying club based at University of Illinois Willard Airport (KCMI) in Champaign, Illinois.
New in the History page:
- Centenary of Jorge Chavez's Heroic Feat Written to commemorate the centenary of the aviation feat performed on September 23rd 1910, by the young Peruvian (born in France) aviator and engineer Jorge Chavez Dartnell, who became the first man to cross the Alps in a light aircraft.
- Dream Pilot Jobs and How To Get One Specializes in specific and targeted techniques to maximize effectiveness with your pilot job search. Bypass years of low-paying flying jobs and get into the cockpit of your dreams. "Rather than an interview prep, gouge, or job post site, this is a new, proven, outside-of-the box approach to pilot employment."
- Flight Utilities Utilities to plan your flights: create a route, print the flight log, save it in GPS format, search the actual Metars / Tafs and decode them. All utilities are available as free downloads. The online service allows you to load one or more METARs / TAFs from the Internet and to show its translation. There is a database containing all the airports for an easy search of the ID ICAO airport code. Show weather condition and the METARs / TAFs in Google Earth. Available Metar / Taf iGoogle gadget.
- SysAIO Consults, designs, and builds web-based software applications for airlines and tour operators: full airline solutions, reservations systems, flight operations, crew scheduling, human resource management, day of operations to ground operations to passenger handling check in systems, all intergrated on one web-based platform.
- Aviation Software, Inc. ASI provides customized solutions to the aviation, mail, cargo, baggage, and terminal handling industries. Systems communicate with airlines, posts, and many other business networks to provide real-time operational information management via the Internet.
- The Sun Ship Game An 80 minute DVD about George Moffat's pursuit of a National Championship on the way to multiple World Championships.
New March 3, 2009
- The Left Seat Report A website where U.S. aviation students can rate both flight schools and instructors. Free registration.
- Vuelo Aero This website for the Spanish speaking aviation community has a focus on General Aviation, but it includes just about anything related to flying: news, photos, videos, and stories.
- Civil Aviation News The latest civil aviation news, updated weekly.
- Tibaz Productions An audio video production company offering servces including aerial photography in helicopters and small planes in Africa.
Added to the Aircargo page:
- AST NYC Domestic and onternational freight shipping services: full truckload, less than truckload-LTL, refrigerated, air cargo, flatbed, trucking, intermodal, air. Free quotes.
- Leather Bags and More Created to help connect customers with high quality leather goods and travel accessories.
- CTC Moyson BVBA A provider of second hand GSE equipment and GSE services: tugs, loaders, towbars, steps. Specialist in GSE refurbishments.
- Alpha Equipment Leasing Airport and ground support equipment leasing and financing. Private and public municipal lease financing available.
- PCE Group Iberica A European company dedicated to manufacturing and distributing measurement and control instruments such as borescopes.
- Pierre Duchesne Airline Spoons Thousands of spoons from hundreds of airlines.
- Victory Vintage Signs High quality nostalgic metal signs, clocks, and thermometers: U.S. and German military aviation and noseart, as well as others. Powdercoated images cured on heavy sheet metal, perfect for your game room, home theater, business, restaurant, bar or pub.
- fltdata - the aviation site A free open business directory and community for professionals in the aviation industry. Aviation professionals may sign and build a professional and company profile, as well as post classifieds, events, blogs, connect to other professionals in the aviation industry and much more.
- Downwind An Australian online community for pilots by pilots.
- Lineguys.com A message board for aviation linemen.
- Coastal Horizons Virtual Airways A Las Vegas based virtual airline serving the continental US, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, and Europe, with new destinations added weekly. Coastal Horizons plans to be the virtual airline that promotes realistic simulation of airline operations, and one that supports the growth, community, and entertainment of flight simulator enthusiasts. Their proprietary system interfaces with the VAFS (Virtual Airline Financial Systems) network providing a level of realism that is emerging in the Virtual Airline industry.
- Virtual Pakistan International Airlines Pakistan's only active virtual airline and flight simulator related website, simulating ATR 42-500, 737, A310, 777, and 747 to over 60 destinations, and covering Hajj and Umrah flights and Presidential flights in addition to historic operations with DC-3, Fokker F-27, Twin Otter DHC-6, Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation, Vickers Viscount, Trident 1E, Boeing 707, Boeing 720B, Airbus A300B4 and DC-10.
- iFlightPlanner A suite of web and mobile-based flight planning and logbook tools for pilots that brings pre-flight procedures under one sequence, including weather checks, flight routing and planning, official weather briefs, weight and balance, and flight plan filing. Once their flight is complete, pilots can close their flight plan and log all flight info into their online logbook.
- Business Jets Serving the private jet charter industry since 1981 with jet charter, air ambulance, and private jet management worldwide.
- The One True Scale A free e-mail newsletter for 1/200 scale model aircraft enthusiasts, including news on a range of short run models from such makers as Eclipse, HBM, VK, X models, Metalmodels, Cloud Break Models, Shed Models and many others.
New February 25, 2009
- GPS Logbooks An automatic pilot's logbook where you record your flights then share them with the world. Use your phone to record your flight live and let people see your flight in 3D as you are flying in realtime through browsers supporting the Google Earth plugin.
New in the History page:
- Black History in Aviation American Airlines produced this site as a tribute to aviation professionals everywhere. It tells the stories of only a handful of pioneers, but it honors all who have dared to be among the few African Americans to have conquered careers in aviation.
- Clear 4 Take Off Aircraft windshield and cabin window polishing and repairs. Service to all executive and international airports throughout the United States and Canada.
- Euravia An independent aviation company offering repair and overhaul services for the PT6 engine series, plus various engine and airframe components and accessories. They operate from three facilities which cater for all aeronautical engine maintenance, repair, overhaul, test and component rework requirements, including fully computerised dynamic balancing.
