Links to aviation (real and simulated) and weather sites

Here are some links toward very interesting sites for flight planning and meteorology:

SkyVector: Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts: really thorough, useful for real and virtual flights. It includes the actual weather at each airport, navaids, calculation of distance and bearing toward your destination.

AWWS-Prévisions et observations: this is a section of the Nav Canada internet site, the company that manages air traffic services in Canada.

OurAirports: really thorough, offers lots of information about thousands of airports around the world.

Weather cams FAA: a particularly interesting site for those of you who own the ORBX scenery SAK(Southern Alaska) and the associated airports (Juneau, Ketchikan, etc), since you have access to many cameras allowing you to check live weather around Alaskan airports and those situated along the west coast of British-Columbia.

http://www.airnav.com: especially if you are interested in american approach plates.

http://www.aviationweather.gov/adds/: american weather. If you wish to know which sector is under MVFR or IFR weather, select “observations” then “Ceiling and Vis”. A USA map will appear with different colour dots indication where is the problematic weather. All there is left to do is to go there if you want to work a little bit at flying in crappy weather! Many other general informations are also available on this site.

http://www.canairradio.com: air radio frequencies of canadian air traffic facilities. This site includes a geographic display of every ACC sectors, as well as frequencies used by airline companies and dispatches across the country.

Flightradar24: real time air traffic, delays included and informations about the type of aircraft, the company name, etc.

LiveAtc.net: listen to live radio communications between air traffic control and pilots in many airports around the world. If you use this site with flightradar24, you will also be able to visualize the aircrafts movements.

FlightAware: a useful site for real time flight following. It also includes fresh aviation news and pictures.

Australian weather: a complete site for the actual and forecasted weather at all airports.

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