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• Every pilot should belong to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).
• For aviation weather, ADDS is indispensible...
• ...and Weather Underground has the best satellite pictures and radar information, as well as general-purpose forecasts.
• If you fly a Cessna, the Cessna Pilots Association is another must.
• Another plug for the Sundance Flying Club, Attitude Aviation and Sirius Flying.
• Everything you wanted to know about spins, especially unrecoverable ones.
• The best weather analysis you can hope to find - this is for California but just replace /ca/ for the state of your choice
• For Northern California pilots, the Fort Ord Profiler to tell you what's going on with our famous marine layer
• A great unpublished book on flying and how airplanes fly is See How It Flies. - it's the only place I've found that explains the commercial pilot test manoeuver called "turns on points" for example. It's really a shame that this book has never made it into print.
• The best and most entertaining aviation discussion site is PPrune. It has a bit of a UK bias, since it was started by a UK airline pilot and probably half the regulars are in the UK, but it's a lot of fun and lately seems to have become the journalists' first resort when they're trying to find interesting things to write about accidents and other industry goings-on (the thread about the BA038 incident at Heathrow in January 2008 is up to 112 pages at the time of writing, and still growing - despite massive pruning of irrelevant or just plain stupid material by the moderators).

• Not directly related to flying, but at least one of the above articles would be lost for ever but for www.archive.org, where you can find everything (well almost) that has ever been available on the web, even if the actual site is long-since defunct.