Some useful links...
BHPA - British Hang-gliding and
Paragliding Association
Avon HG & PG Club
- Avon HG & PG
Club website
Avon HG & PG Club Yahoo
group -
Avon HG & PG Club discussion
list
British Paragliding
Competitions (includes national XC
league)
www.paraglidingforum.com
- excellent new
international paragliding forum
Weather
Chris Jones' weather links
page
Weatherjack - very useful site giving soaring
predictions up to 5 days in advance
XCWeather - brilliant site reporting
realtime conditions (well almost) from airfields
around the country
Metcheck - good 7 day forecasts
(Wiltshire, Monmouthshire)
WeatherOnline - a useful source of recent past,
current and forecast weather data
OnlineWeather - mountain and sailing forecasts,
along with links to numerous weather resources,
including Met Office forecast charts. I've actually
found the forecasts to be a bit up the creek
recently, and hardly ever use it now except to look
at Met Office synoptic charts
(from
Wetterzentrale) and the US Air Force Europe
forecasts... (view
next 5 days
here)
Wetterzentrale - Met Office synoptic charts:
T +0, +24, +36, +48, +60, +72, +84, +96, +108, +120 hrs (alternatively, click
here to see them all in one go)
WendyWindblows - realtime weather reports from
flying sites around the country
BBC weather forecast
(video)
BBC Weather Centre
- South, wind map
BBC Weather Centre
- Satellite
images
Latest UK visible
satellite -
updated hourly from the Met Office
Latest UK rainfall
- updated half hourly
from the Met Office
Met Office mountain
forecast for the Brecon
Beacons
Meteoblue - Weatherjack reckons we should
use this!
Europen medium range
forecasts -
Alan D swears by this - "850mb (approx 4000')
temperature, relative humidity &
winds"
Snowdon webcam
Thames Valley HG Club
The Mighty Wessex
The Malverns HG & PG Club
Devon & Somerset Condors
North Devon Hang-gliding Club
South Devon Hang-gliding Club
SE Wales HG & PG Club
SW Wales Soaring Club
Mid Wales HG & PG Club
Snowdonia Sky Sports
Welsh site picker - use this handy tool to pick your site in Wales!
GPS / Airspace
Mike Miller's GPS/Airmap page
My GPS page - some tips on GPS usage
Ulf's GPS page - VERY USEFUL!
Scottish Mountaineering Club UK TOPO maps
Google Earth Airspace - thanks to Lloyd Bailey
Airspace maps for Garmins
Schools
Airtopia - local PG school based near Stroud, run by Robin Brown
Par Avion - local PG school based near Marlborough
Holidays
Flybubble Paragliding - Run by British Paragliding Team member, and BHPA Senior Paragliding Instructor, Carlo Borsattino, Flybubble Paragliding provide first-rate thermalling, cross country and SIV paragliding trips and courses in the UK and world-wide, for all levels of paraglider pilot. (Click here for photos from my Flybubble trip to Brazil)
Misc
Options Insurance - very good value travel insurance (no longer cover HG/PG)
White Horse Marquees - suppliers of the Mere Bash marquee, owned by Avon pilot Bertie Grotian
Illusion Stage Hire - provided the superb marquee and stage for the 2004 Mere Bash. Phone Gye Dibben on 07973 907710