Links

MIDWEEK FLYING

Military Freephone - Civil Aircraft Notification Procedure (CANP) - for all midweek flying - Phone 0800 515544. Procedure on BHPA website.
Red Arrows & Royal Flights – for details of Temporarily Upgraded Airspace - Phone 0500 354802

TRAINING SCHOOLS

	Air Ventures Paragliding - Keswick
	Escape - Keswick and world-wide
	SunSoar Paragliding - Kirkby Stephen
	Flybubble - Brighton
	Derbyshire Flying Centre - Hang-gliding & Paragliding school in the Derbyshire Peak District

EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIERS

	The Sick and the Wrong - paragliding and snowboard specialists, Keswick. Telephone: 017687 80297
	Aerofix - The Hayloft, Stretfield Mill, Bradwell, Hope Valley, S33 9JT Telephone: 01433 627195
	UK Airsports - free flight kit, Threkeld, near Keswick. Telephone: 0870 744 1677 (0870?)
	Airplay - Regional agents for Gradient Gliders & accessories, Digifly range of instruments and Ava Sport Harnesses & Reserves
	Transair - more a supplier of General Aviation accesories. Extensive range of charts and flying literature. Tel : 01273 466000
	The Map Shop - Maps for anywhere in the world. Highly recommended. Be prepared for the walk out after that epic XC. Telephone: 0800 085 40 80

WEATHER INFORMATION

See Weather tab on home page

USEFUL INFO

Judith Mole and Geoff Minshull: Flying Pages - Primarily a flying diary but lots of useful information in the Resources and Webcasts pages. Highly recommended is a webcast on how to use the RASP forecasting web site.

WEBCAMS ACROSS THE COUNTY

	BBC Cumbria - Index of some webcams in Cumbria
	Keswick webcam - Skiddaw (if you're lucky) from George Fishers in Keswick
	Keswick Schools Weather - 2 web cams are available on this site

LINKS TO NEIGHBOURING HANG-GLIDING & PARAGLIDING CLUBS

	Northumbria Hang-gliding & Paragliding Club - The NHPC consists of a dedicated band of pilots from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and the surrounding areas. We have excellent sites in the beautiful Cheviots and North Pennines.
	Dales Hang-gliding and Paragliding Club - Large well established club for hang glider and paraglider pilots. Flying from hilltop sites within Yorkshire Dales.
	North Yorks Sailwing Club - North Yorkshire, Cleveland, Co. Durham. Excellent sites (some members only). Hang gliding and paragliding coaching. BHPA welcome. Visiting membership.
	Sir George Cayley Sailwing Club - Membership open to all classes of pilot. Meetings held 3rd Tuesday of month, The Wellington Oak, Pocklington. Yorkshire. All Welcome. Join a very friendly and active club.
	Derbyshire Soaring Club - One of largest clubs with around 500 members. Friendly club with sites in Derbyshire/Peak District renowned for XC potential. Members only but m/ship open to all. See website.
	Pennine Soaring Club - Large, active and friendly hang gliding/paragliding club established for many years, with access to a variety of hill sites in Lancashire/Yorkshire.
	Lanarkshire and Lothian Soaring Club - South West Scotland. Sites for members only but day memberships are available for visitors.
	Wingbeat Paragliding - Wingbeat is "perhaps the smallest paragliding club in the UK" and is based around the tributaries of the River Tweed in the Teviot, Ettrick and Yarrow Valleys of the Southern Uplands in the Scottish Borders.

LINKS TO NEIGHBOURING GLIDING CLUBS

Edensoaring - a gliding club established in 2008 at Skelling Farm, on the side of the Pennines, and with Cross Fell as a backdrop. They offer trial flights and training

COMPETITIONS and LEAGUES

	British Paragliding Competitions (and National XC League)
	British Hang-gliding Competitions
	National Hang-gliding XC League

NAVIGATION

	GPSDump - Convert your GPS Vario output to a number of formats including Google Earth and IGC
	IGC Flight Replay - Superb piece of software. Use GPS Dump to download your flight from your vario to a .igc file and then replay the flight - in 3-D - within Google Earth.
	Memory Map - OS Maps and CAA Charts for your PC or PDA

AVIATION

	Civil Aviation Authority - The legislative body governing aviation in the UK.
	UK Nats - Areonautical information Service. Follow the link on "VFR Charts" for publication details of the latest charts
	Aviation Abbreviations - Want to know what that TLA means? A index of most aviation abbreviations
	NotamPlot - downloadable software that helps to identify what NOTAMS apply to your area. Note - does not normally list paragliding alerts as these are not strictly NOTAMs
	Avbrief - You need to register here before you can download bulletins for use with NotamPlot. Register as a Guest by following the Briefing Services link. Use your registration details in NotamPlot
	NOTAM Info - All NOTAMs on a Google Map. Easy to use. You need to register.

NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

	British Hang-gliding and Paragliding Association (BHPA)
	Flyability (the disability initiative of the BHPA)
	German Hang-gliding and Paragliding Federation (DHV)
	French Federation of Free Flight (FFVL)

BHPA PILOT EXAM

Useful links for those taking the BHPA Pilot Exam

	Wessex HPPG On Line Test - a good little on line test. Personally, I can't see the point of knowing the VFR rules for flying above FL245!
	CAA 1:250,000 Chart Symbols - you need to know these for the exam

CUMBRIA TOURIST INFORMATION

	Official website for Cumbria Tourism
	Tourist Information Centres

OTHER LINKS

	Great North Air Ambulance
	Lake District Outdoors
	Skywings (Official magazine of the BHPA)
	Lake District National Park Authority
	National Trust
	The Lake District in Cumbria
	Powered Hang-gliding - subsection of BHPA website
	Paramotoring - subsection of BHPA website
	Paragliding Earth - A map of worldwide paragliding sites