Use Aviation Resources with your AI assistant

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that supports MCP (Model Context Protocol) to the FAA handbooks and Airman Certification Standards. Your assistant can then look things up in the actual FAA material, show you the page, and tell you where it found the answer.

Server URL

https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp

Paste this into your assistant's "add connector" or "add MCP server" screen. Steps for each app are below.

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No account or sign-in
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What your assistant can do

Search the FAA handbooks
Finds the pages that cover a topic across our library of about 40 FAA handbooks, advisory circulars and guides, including the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, the Airplane Flying Handbook, the Instrument Flying Handbook, Aviation Weather and the Weight & Balance Handbook. search_documents
Read and see a page
Opens a page to read its full text and look at the page itself, so figures, charts and tables are understood, not just the words. It can zoom in on the part that matters. get_page
List the ACS
Lists the Airman Certification Standards we cover: Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, Instrument Rating, Airline Transport Pilot and Remote Pilot. list_airman_certification_standards

Every answer comes with a link that opens the exact page in Aviation Resources, so you can check it yourself.

Try asking

"What does the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge say about density altitude? Give me the page."
"Show me the holding pattern entry figure from the Instrument Flying Handbook and walk me through a teardrop entry."
"I have my private pilot checkride next week. Quiz me on slow flight and stalls using the Airplane Flying Handbook."
"Using the Weight & Balance Handbook, show me how to find the center of gravity, step by step, with an example."

Mentioning "Aviation Resources" or a handbook by name helps your assistant decide to look it up.

Set it up

Claude claude.ai and the Claude apps

Open Customize › Connectors.
Click + Add, then Add custom connector.
Name it Aviation Resources and paste the server URL.
For authentication, choose No sign in, then click Add.
In a chat, click + › Connectors and make sure Aviation Resources is turned on.

Works on every plan, including Free (which allows one custom connector). On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner adds it under Organization settings › Connectors, then each member clicks Connect.

ChatGPT

Open Settings › Apps & Connectors › Advanced settings and turn on Developer mode.
Back in Apps & Connectors, click Create.
Name it Aviation Resources, paste the server URL, and set authentication to No authentication.
Click Create.
In a new chat, click + › More and choose Aviation Resources.

Custom connectors in ChatGPT need Developer mode, which isn't available on every plan. In Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces, an admin may need to turn it on first. ChatGPT changes these menus often; if a name doesn't match, look for "Apps" or "Connectors" in Settings.

Claude Code

Run:

claude mcp add --transport http aviation-resources https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp

VS Code GitHub Copilot agent mode

Run MCP: Open User Configuration from the Command Palette and add:

{
  "servers": {
    "aviation-resources": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or put the same thing in .vscode/mcp.json to add it to one project only.

Cursor

Open Settings › Tools & MCP, click Add Custom MCP, and add this to mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aviation-resources": {
      "url": "https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The tools are available in Agent mode. If the server doesn't appear, restart Cursor.

Other assistants

Any MCP client that supports the Streamable HTTP transport can connect to the server URL. No sign-in, API key or headers are needed.

Good to know

Check the source. AI assistants can still get things wrong. Use the page link that comes with each answer, and confirm anything that matters with your flight instructor. This is a study aid, not a substitute for instruction or the current FAA publications.

The content is the FAA's. The handbooks and Airman Certification Standards are public-domain FAA publications. Aviation Resources makes them searchable; it doesn't change them.

Nothing about you is shared. The server doesn't need an account and only reads public material. Your assistant sends it only search terms and page numbers, never your whole conversation.

For developers

Endpoint: POST https://api.aviationresources.io/mcp
Transport: Streamable HTTP, stateless: no session ID, a single JSON response per request. GET and DELETE return 405.
Authentication: None.
Tools: search_documents, get_page, list_airman_certification_standards. Clients discover input and output schemas with tools/list.
Results: Structured content plus JSON text. get_page also returns the page as a JPEG image block and links to the page in the web app and as a single-page PDF.

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Use Aviation Resources with your AI assistant

What your assistant can do

Search the FAA handbooks

Read and see a page

List the ACS

Try asking

Set it up

Good to know

For developers