Favorite Links

Revised on January 29, 2024

These are some of my favorite links to third-party links on aviation info. Some of the third-party sites that I have included on this page may collect data about you such as cookies, third-party tracking, analytics, and advertising, etc. I am not responsible for these other sites and these other sites may have their own privacy statements. As I have stated in my privacy policy you may want to access this blog or the third-party links listed here using the incognito or private settings on your browser where your cookies will be deleted at the end of your session. Or you may change your browsers cookie's settings.


Glossaries and Dictionaries
Publications from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)
Aviation Glossaries
A glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology may be found on this page from NWCG or from Wildland Fire 101 which has a wildfire terminology page 

Some Blogs, Forums, Websites and Other Media About Wildland Fire Fighting
NJFFS Section B10 has a great webpage with information on New Jersey wildfires plus a a photos and videos page (update weekly includes photos). A few videos, updated daily, are on their home page.
Associated Aerial Firefighters
Firehouse News (covers all aspects of firefighting not just wildland firefighting)
Wildfire Today and Fire Aviation (Bill Gabbert started these sites several years ago. When he died late in 2022, the sites were taken over by the International Association of Wildland Fire, continuing to do the same excellent reporting that Bill Gabbert did.)
Aerial Fire Magazine (some articles available without subscription)
Mike Archers Wildfire News of the Day (five day a week newsletter of media and other articles on wildfire news including current wildland fires, if you are interested in his newsletter you will have to subscribe via the form on his page)
Wildlandfire101 has some basic information on fighting wildfires and what a wildland firefighter can expect and information on how to applying. They also have a page called wildfire101 explaining the 10 standard orders, 18 watch out situations and terminology.



U.S. Government-- Wildland Firefighting (including aerial)
InciWeb National Incidents
National Interagency Fire Center
NWCG Home Page
US Forest Service Fire Management with links
National Geographic Area Coordination Center Website Portal
NICC Aviation
US Forest Service Aviation Page
Helicopters (USFS aviation)
National Interagency Fire Center Aircraft Page
Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems (MAFFS)
Red Book (Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation)

State of New Jersey (state agency and other NJ wildfire info pages)
NJ Forest Fire Service
NJ Forest Fire Service Section B10 (info about current NJ wildfires, fire weather, videos, and photos

Aviation Websites
Air Safety Institute (ASI) (you will need to set up a free account to take ASI's free interactive courses.
AvWeb (aviation news source)
Aviation Week
Airliners.net (pictures, forums, etc.)
Flight Aware (flight tracking)
Live Air Traffic Control


Agricultural Aviation
National Agricultural Aviation Association - NAAA (US)
Ag Air Update (voice of Ag Aviation)