ALPHABETICAL LINKS
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Virtual DFW Tower
Includes weather radar, airport photos, flight tracking, ATC tutorial, and live feed from the tower.
www.ags.uci.edu
Airways Corporation of New Zealand
Air navigation services for the aviation industry within New Zealand and the Oceanic airspace.
www.airways.co.nz
ATC Interactive
A free downloadable ATC simulation of radar sectors where you can create your own exercises. Windows(3.xx/NT) and DOS versions available.
users.skynet.be
Aviation Policies and Plans (APO) Data Systems
The FAA office which provides access to historical traffic counts, forecasts of aviation activity, and delay statistics.
www.apo.data.faa.gov
ARCON Corp.
Provider of research and development services specializing in air traffic control software development for the government. The company also provides distributed computing networking consulting services for general industry.
www.arcon.com
Air Traffic Control Network
Provider of information and communication services for professionals in air traffic control.
www.atcnetwork.com
Air Traffic Controller
School. Train with us. 12 mos. OJT. Job Placement Asst.
advancedatc.com
ATC - Air Traffic Control
Free training courses. Effectively communicate with ATC. Start now.
www.AOPA.org/ASF
ATC-SIM
Web-based air traffic control simulator.
www.atc-sim.com
Air Traffic Control Webring
A collection of sites for the ATC enthusiast.
www.geocities.com
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Boeing ATS Performance Focus Group
A C/AFT report (Feb 99) using airline metrics to evaluate the area of air traffic service.
www.boeing.com
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CAASD Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD)
An operating center of The MITRE Corporation providing research, analyses, and technical services to help modernize the US Air Traffic Control system; works with the FAA.
www.caasd.org
Comsoft
Located in Germany; handles communication for air traffic control including the RMCDE and RADNET systems which connects ATC systems in approximately 30 countries within Europe.
www.comsoft.de
CyberAir Airpark
Includes Control Tower & FAA Info, the Museum, the RealAudio area, the RealVideo area, the Fixed Base Operations building, the Links Area, and Aviation Store.
www.cyberair.com
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Dallas-Fort Worth(DFW/D10) TRACON/Towers
Information on the air traffic control at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport (DFW, including ATC statistical information and live audio.
web2.airmail.net
Diversified International Sciences Corp.
Provider of custom applications software programming services specializing in air traffic control and databases and provider of office and business automation services with computer systems integration. This company also provides LAN maintenanc...
www.discmd.com
Doss Aviation
Provider of flight training, aircraft maintenance and modification, air traffic control, maintenance training, fuels and supply management, transient aircraft support services, airfield management and defense fuel support operations.
www.dossaviation.com
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Edmund M. Strong Air Traffic Control Expert Witness and Consultant
Air traffic consultation related to accidents, rules, and procedures; located in Florida.
www.edstrong.com
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FAA Career Opportunities
The vacancy announcement lists worldwide FAA positions and forms and resources; also links to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) vacancy postings.
jobs.faa.gov
FAA Newsroom
Links for journalists and others researching the FAA, including press releases, and fact sheets, statistics, safety and delay information, airworthiness directives, congressional testimony, and history.
www.faa.gov
Federal Aviation Regulations
Index of FAA regulations (FARs); Title 14, chapters I and III.
www.faa.gov
Flight Plans
FAA's information on filing flight plans (VFR, IFR); filing can be done by telephone, in person, or by radio.
www.faa.gov
Free Flight
The FAA homepage for its Free Flight initiative designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS).
www.faa.gov
Five Miles And A Thousand Feet
Book for sale by controllers.
www.fivemiles.com
Flight Transportation Associates, Inc. (FTA)
Provides professional consulting services on the technical, operational, economic, environmental, and management problems of air transportation.
www.ftausa.com
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The Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise is the world’s largest anti-noise groups. It raised about $200,000 in two months to support its case in the European Court of Human Rights.
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The IFR Room
A website about air traffic control and general aviation in the US and UK.
www.angelfire.com
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
Programs in Aviation Weather and Air Traffic Control technology.
www.ll.mit.edu
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MITRE Corporation (The)
Research and development organization specializing in systems engineering and systems integration services with advanced air traffic management systems. Services are provided to the Department of Defense, the FAA and other agencies.
www.mitre.org
Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc
A full service private air traffic control organization dedicated to providing air traffic control, weather reporting and related technical support services.
www.atctower.com
Metron Aviation, Inc.
A private firm the FAA uses to conduct environmental impact studies.
http://www.metronaviation.com/
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NAV Canada
Air navigation services, including air traffic control, flight information, weather briefings, weather service and airport advisories.
www.navcanada.caFreeflight with Airborne Separation Assurance
This site describes the work done recently at NLR on the Free Flight Concept, in collaboration with the NASA, the FAA Tech Center and the Netherlands Department of Civil Aviation (RLD). Under Free Flight, aircraft crews would be responsible for ...
www.nlr.nl
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Safe Flight 21 Program
Safe Flight 21 is an FAA and industry cooperative effort to perform operational evaluation of a set of nine operational enhancements that will lead to Free Flight.
www.faa.gov
Systems, Technology & Management Consultants (STASYS)
Provider of civil aviation consultancy and software applications. Areas include air traffic management (ATM), emergency services, information security, communications and information systems.
www.stasys.co.uk
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Tern Systems Inc. Iceland
System development and fundamental research studies in the areas of air traffic control; ATC solutions include consultative evaluations, and project management.
www.tern.is
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The United Kingdom Air Traffic controllers Travel Section (UKATTS)
The world's largest independent travel organization for ATC staff; also includes general information on the UK's ATC system.
www.ukatts.org.uk
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Volpe Center, Wake Vortex Program
The objective of this program is to assist the FAA in the development of systems and procedures capable of providing the air traffic control system with the information required to maximize traffic flow for existing vortex conditions.
www.volpe.dot.gov
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Euro ATControllers
A forum where Euro (and non-Euro) Controllers can network and find information related to ATC.
Aviation Industry Links
Air Transport Network The only trade organization for the principal US airlines.
The Airline Pilots Association is a union representing 59,000 at 49 United States and Canadian airlines. It is part of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations. (www.ifalpa.org)
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has a membership of 360,000 and is often referred to as the National Rifle Association of the air transportation industry.
Aviation Now The major trade publication of the aviation industry, published weekly.
National Air Transportation Association represents the interests of general aviation services companies at the federal level, it lobbies for airport expansion and sponsors a political action committee.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association is the collective bargaining unit for 14,000 air traffic controllers serving the FAA, the Department of Defense, and the private sector.
Policy Makers and Coalitions for Avaition modernization
The National Research Council is the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on matters of science and technology.
Joint Planning & Development office
New York Integration Office
Real time Air Traffic
Organizations for Sustainable development
The Natural Resources Defense Council is engaged in general environmental activism. It published an outstanding report in 1996 entitled “Flying Off Course: Environmental Impacts of Americas Airports”.
BloomingVision is a livable community network that raises awareness about city and county planning issues and encourages participation in public input meetings
The Sustainable Energy Coalition brings together more than 30 national business, environmental, consumer, and energy policy organizations. Founded in 1992, the Coalition promotes increased federal support for energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and reduced federal support for unsafe or polluting energy resources.
The Ethical Globalization Initiative seeks to integrate human rights norms and standards into a more ethical globalization process and to support local and national human rights capacity building efforts using the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) as a case study.
The goal of the International Forum on Globalization is twofold: (1) Expose the multiple effects of economic globalization in order to stimulate debate, and (2) Seek to reverse the globalization process by encouraging ideas and activities which revitalize local economies and communities, and ensure long term ecological stability. Representing over 60 organizations in 25 countries, the International Forum on Globalization associates come together out of a shared concern that the world's corporate and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may prove as historically significant as any event since the Industrial Revolution. This restructuring is happening at tremendous speed, with little public disclosure of the profound consequences affecting democracy, human welfare, local economies, and the natural world.
Reconnecting America for integrated or intermodal transportation system in the USA.
The PlaNETwork organization organizes annual conferences and advocates for a specific linkage between the purpose and principles articulated in the Earth Charter, and individuals, NGO's and companies which commit to support these values, through the Planetwork Consortium.
Earthcharter This peoples’ covenant of an integrated system of social and ecological values can be a major ethical basis for an aviation industry that is ethical for human and other lifeforms. Additional information at:
Center for Respect of Life and the Environment
University leaders for a Sustainable Future
Earth and Peace Educational Associates
The key objectives of the GreenSkies Network are to
a) reduce noise at airports, especially at nights; and
b) reduce the industry's growing contribution to global climate change.Aviationwatch is an Informative site with some 200 members, mainly concerned with aircraft noise and other aviation pollutants in the USA.
The Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise is the world’s largest anti-noise groups. It raised about $200,000 in two months to support its case in the European Court of Human Rights.
Safety and Noise as Airport Problems - SNAP is an unmoderated email list the sponsor of which is Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (HACAN)
Other Links
The Noise-Pollution Clearinghouse is national non-profit organization with extensive online noise related resources.
The League for the Hard of Hearing is the world's leading not-for-profit hearing rehabilition and human services agency for infants, children and adults who are hard of hearing, deaf and deaf-blind. It is host to the tri-state metro new York area of ANAG--Anti-noise Action Group, most of members of which belong to aircraft noise groups.
Publishers of Sustainable Transportation Monitor, online.
See also the FAQ on that website and additional information on www.ncdc.noaa.gov
Citizen Advocacy Groups
The Aviation Environment Forum works closely with local, national and international decision-makers to achieve the objective of a sustainable, equitable and accountable aviation industry, having representation on UK Government and European Commission working groups and observer status to the environmental committee of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).
The Airfields Environment Trust UK works to promote a real understanding of the effects of aviation both locally and internationally and to explore ways in which pollution and other adverse effects can be reduced.
Aviation Watch UK Member of the Aviation Environment Federation; has good publications.
The Alliance of Residents Concerning O’Hare is one of most established citizens groups with a very informative website.
Aviation Noise The National Organization to Insure a Sound-Controlled Environment (NOISE) is non-profit association of local governments and others that advocates noise abatement policies that are both responsible and acceptable to all parties involved.Save Rockland Airspace (Quiet Rockland)
NJCAAN Mentioned in the DEIS
Petition to stop the planes in Rockland County
Citizens against Aircraft Pollution
Philidelphia Citizen Aviation Watch
Westchester County Airport Noise Abatement Project
NJCAAN This group is mentioned in the DEIS and has been active for years
groups fighting aviation pollution around the world can be found at: Reconnecting America for integrated or intermodal transportation system in the USA.
CLAW National organization of local groups with links to the international citizens movement for sustainable, equitable and accountable aviation
The PlaNETwork organization organizes annual conferences and advocates for a specific linkage between the purpose and principles articulated in the Earth Charter, and individuals, NGO's and companies which commit to support these values, through the Planetwork Consortium.
Earthcharter This peoples’ covenant of an integrated system of social and ecological values can be a major ethical basis for an aviation industry that is ethical for human and other lifeforms. Additional information at:
Center for Respect of Life and the Environment
University leaders for a Sustainable Future
Earth and Peace Educational Associates
GreenSkies Network reduce noise at airports, especially at nights; and reduce the industry's growing contribution to global climate change.
Aviationwatch is an Informative site with some 200 members, mainly concerned with aircraft noise and other aviation pollutants in the USA.
The Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter tracks the local, national and international stories of the ever-expanding aviation industry's environmental assault on the people of the world.
The Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise is the world’s largest anti-noise groups. It raised about $200,000 in two months to support its case in the European Court of Human Rights.
Safety and Noise as Airport Problems - SNAP is an unmoderated email list the sponsor of which is Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (HACAN)
The Noise-Pollution Clearinghouse is national non-profit organization with extensive online noise related resources.
OurAirspace
ourairspace.org
contact@OurAirspace.org
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