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Favorite Aviation Sites:

AviationCRM.com - An aviation safety consulting firm that specializes in Crew Resource Management and Human Factors training for business, corporate, and charter aviation operators. 

AirSafe.Com - (Curtis) Contains fatal event rates on airlines and airline models, plus much more.

AVweb - (Kaputa/Busch/Marbach)  A Magazine and News service site.  Excellent articles.

Aviation Week Group - Publishers of Aviation Week & Space Technology.

Airdisasters.Com - (Kilroy/Morrell)  Airline accident news archives.

Aviation Safety Network - (Ranter/Lujan)  Accident reports, safety issues.

Airsafetyonline.com - (Rupp)  Latest news on airline accidents.  Planning a fully searchable accident database.

Flight-History.Com - A rich resource of aviation history, especially for military and war buffs.

The Boeing 737 Management Reference Guide  - This site offers a B-737 Flight Management Reference Guide, for non-normal situations, by B-737 Captain Patrick Boone. Free 40-page demo file.

This site, edited by a B-777 captain, specializes in the history of, and FAQs about, the Boeing  777.

Landings.Com Miscellaneous Links Page - Landings is probably the largest aviation related web site on the internet. If you are looking for a good starting point for any aviation related search, this is the place to go.

Plane Crash Information - (Kebabjian)  Contains information on more than 1900 accidents.

Additional Aviation Sites:

Aviation Fire & Rescue Information - International information for aircraft fire & rescue.
Aviation Safety Data (FAA) - Searchable Safety Database.
Aviation Safety Institute (Galipault) - Non-profit safety research center.
The Aviation Safety Group of New England - Non-profit organization. Lots of great links.
Aviation Safety Connection - Focus on improving pilot judgment and decision making 
Aviation Safety Certificate Program (Embry-Riddle) - Pilot degrees & programs.
Flight Safety Foundation - An independent, nonpolitical, nonprofit, international organization.
Federal Aviation Administration  - Home page.
NTSB - Accident database, statistics, reports, investigations, publications, etc.
Thirty Thousand Feet (Aviation Directory) - Lists Web pages, newsgroups, FAQs, aviation news, and links to other sources of aviation information.

Fear of Flying

 – Clinics/Seminars/Forums/Tapes/CDs/Books:

We now have a Fear of Flying Forum where fearful flyers can discuss with one another, their fears and experiences of flying.  Just click on the link in this paragraph. 

[Note:  If you desire to post in that forum, it works best to use the Internet Explorer browser, as that will provide you with all the "goodies," like bold, italics, color, etc.  For other purposes, we recommend the Mozilla browser.  It is a free download at:  http://Mozilla.org]

http://www.hypnos.info/cds/flying.html and, 

http://www.hypnos.info/cd1/cdflying.html  CD or tapes on how to deal with the Fear of Flying 

http://www.fearlessflying.com - More information can be found about this site, at the bottom of the Faq on Flying Fear.

http://www.fearofflyinghelp.com - Fear of flying online course. Free of charge help in overcoming flying fear, flying phobias, flight anxiety, panic attacks, fear of heights.

http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/fear-of-flying.asp

DISCLAMER:  We are not endorsing any of these sites.  We simply provide the information for our Fearful Flyer readers, to pursue on their own.  The Editor would appreciate any feedback, positive or negative, from anyone that has any experience with these groups.

Favorite Books:                       

Plane of Excellence Trilogy -  A 3-book set, by Tony Kern:  Redefining Airmanship; Flight Discipline; and of special importance to the editor of ASC, The Rogue Pilot.  These books can be purchased separately, if desired.

Controlling Pilot Error: Culture, Environment, and CRM - Edited by Tony Kern. Confronts the human factors behind most aviation mishaps.  The Editor of this website is the author of Chapter Five.

Unheeded Warning - By Stephen A. Fredrick, a courageous American Eagle pilot, who was willing to sacrifice his job so the public could be informed about the dangers of the ATR turbo-prop aircraft.  It explains, in great detail, why passengers should avoid flying on the ATR airliners when the weather makes aircraft icing more likely . This book is highly recommended by the Editor of AirlineSafety.Com.

Aviation Disasters (2nd edition) - A book by David Gero that chronicles more than 230 airline catastrophes worldwide since 1950, providing meticulous detail.

Flights of Terror - Another book by David Gero that concentrates on various types of hostile action committed against commercial aircraft, from the earliest days of air travel to the present.

Military Aviation Disasters - David Gero.  Probably the most comprehensive work on this subject, dealing with accidents from 1908 to 1998.  Hard cover, 176 pages, with world-wide photographs. 

To find any book, in or out of print, click on the Amazon Logo and then enter title and/or author in the search box:

Favorite Free-Market Sites:

Reason Public Policy Institute - A national, nonprofit research organization that promotes innovative, dynamic public policy solutions.

Cato Institute - 25 years of promoting public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.

Reason Foundation - A national research and educational organization that explores and promotes public policies based on rationality and freedom.

The Foundation for Economic Education - The FEE web site is full of sound ideas, logical commentary, and the fundamental philosophy of liberty, economic freedom, and individual rights. FEE is also the publisher of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty a monthly publication that applies the basic principles of the free society to history and the issues of the day. For a free copy of Ideas on Liberty, contact the Foundation for Economic Education at http://www.fee.org 

Union Facts - A website where you can learn about union crime and corruption, undemocratic leaders, unfair labor practices.  Union Leader Fraud:  In 2005, criminal charges and fines against union officials hit five-year highs, proving that union bosses have earned their reputation for greed and corruption. [more...] 

Union Free America - A Free-Market site which documents how unions kill jobs and how they plot with legislators to deny your Natural and Constitutional rights.   

Tech Central Station - Where Free-Markets meet technology.

The Smith Center - A Free-Market Think Tank at California State University, Hayward

Overlawyered.Com - The website devoted to a running critique of excessive law and litigation, has just launched a special subpage on "Our overlawyered skies".  A Free-Market source of aviation litigation news.

Libertarian.Org - For people who are exploring libertarianism, whether they are long-time libertarians or investigating this political philosophy for the first time.

Free-Market.Net - The world's most comprehensive source for information on liberty.