Mountain Flying Resources

General Mountain Flying Resources

• New Zealand’s CAA has a Mountain Flying guide, and a Mountain Flying Training Standards Guide
• Sparky Imeson’s Mountain Flying Bible ($37 and there’s no e-book version 😤)
• The FAA’s Tips on Mountain Flying
• An FAA Safety Briefing article from 2012, Rocky Mountain High: The Zen of Mountain Flying
• AOPA’s Mountain Flying Safety Advisor
• AOPA Pilot Information Center article on Mountain Flying
• AOPA’s A Pilot’s Guide to Mountain Flying
• AOPA Mountain Flying online course (requires Flash ... 😤) (qualifies for WINGS credit)
• AOPA Terrain Flying (reproduction of old FAA literature, Terrain Flying (AC 91-15), that Rod Machado referred to as “the best accumulation of information I've ever seen on mountain flying route selection”); that document is available online (free and quick registration required): http://dotlibrary.specialcollection.net/Document?db=DOT-ADVISORY&query=(select+387))
• Colorado Pilots Association’s Mountain Flying Course ($220 for non-members, plus an optional cross-country component)

Weather

• Aviation Weather Center’s Graphical Turbulence Guidance (now also available in ForeFlight via ADS-B: https://ipadpilotnews.com/2018/10/foreflight-new-ads-b-weather/)
• Winds Aloft

SoCal Specific Resources

• Proteus Air Services at Santa Monica Airport has at least one instructor with extensive mountain flying experience (I did some mountain flying training with him). Ask for Nick.
• Until recently, DuBois Aviation’s website listed specialized Mountain Flying instruction (but with Lake Arrowhead Airport currently “[c]losed until further notice,” perhaps they can’t offer the class right now 😞)

(Prices are current as of June 2019.)

(There’s more I want to add, and will do so eventually. The above links are a great start, though.)