Awesome resources and links

Here are some ground schools, news sources, podcasts, and study materials I've found useful as a pilot, plus some volunteer organizations on the West Coast that are worth looking into.

This list is always growing! Feel free to suggest anything I've missed.

Ground schools

• Flight Insight
• Sporty's
• King Schools
• Gold Seal
• AviatorPro

News, current events

• FLYING magazine
• AOPA
• General Aviation News
• AeroTime
• The Air Current
• AvBrief

Podcasts

• The Reider Report (Rob Reider)
• Aviation News Talk (Max Trescott at KPAO)

Supplementary learning

• CFI Commonplace Book put together by Jack O'Leary and other WVFC CFIs
• Max Trescott's online courses on G1000 avionics
• Seth Lake, DPE: YouTube, Substack
• Boldmethod
• AOPA Air Safety Institute: Courses, YouTube
• FAASTeam and the WINGS program
• PilotWorkshops (now part of Sporty's)
• Brian Schiff's Neat Stuff
• Useful Formulas for instrument flying (Ryan Ferguson, DPE)

Volunteer organizations (Bay Area/West Coast)

• Angel Flight West
• Santa Clara Valley 99s
• Urban Eagles
• Civil Air Patrol
• Palo Alto Airport Association
• Santa Monica Airport Association
• Pilots N Paws