MIDWEEK FLYING

Military Freephone (for all midweek flying)  - Phone 0800 515544

Red Arrows & Royal Flights – Phone 0500 354802

TRAINING SCHOOLS

Air Ventures Paragliding

http://www.airventures.co.uk/

Northern Paragliding

http://www.northern-paragliding.com/

Escape

http://www.escapexc.com/

SunSoar Paragliding

http://www.sunsoar-paragliding.com

Flybubble

http://www.flybubble.co.uk/

EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIERS

The Sick and the Wrong 

http://www.sickandwrong.co.uk/

Aerofix

http://www.aerofix.com/

UK Airsports

http://www.ukairsports.com/

WEATHER INFORMATION

National Park ‘Weatherline’ (Tel: 0870 055 0575)

5 day forecast for the Lake District with links to the BBC 5 day forecast for Keswick and Windermere 

http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/weatherline/home/index.php

Cumbria weather 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/weather/

Keswick area weather (Keswick schools weather stations)

http://www.keswickweather.co.uk/

Met Office - weather for North West England (and other areas)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/nw/nw_forecast_weather.html

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/loutdoor/mountainsafety/lakedistrict.html

XC Weather 

http://www.xcweather.co.uk/

WeatherJack 

http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/index.htm

Mountain Weather Information Service 

http://www.mwis.org.uk/

Skylink – The Weather Site 

http://skylinkweather.com/metar/metarmapindex.php

Weather Underground (weather data for hundreds of UK locations)

http://www.wunderground.com/global/UK.html

WeatherOnline (site with many forecast charts including wind arrows for the United Kingdom)

http://expert.weatheronline.co.uk/

BHPA Weather Links 

http://www.bhpa.co.uk/weather.php

Synoptic Charts
http://meteonet.nl/aktueel/brackall.htm

http://www.mwis.org.uk/synoptic.php

Webcams around the county 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/in_pictures/webcams/index.shtml

Roger Brugge's Weather Page (loads of links to weather information)

http://www.met.rdg.ac.uk/~brugge/ - Europech

LINKS TO NEIGHBOURING HANG-GLIDING & PARAGLIDING CLUBS
 

Northumbria Hang-gliding & Paragliding Club 

http://www.nhpc.org.uk/

Dales Hang-gliding and Paragliding Club 

http://dhpc.org.uk/

North Yorks Sailwing Club 

http://www.nysc.org.uk/

Sir George Cayley Sailwing Club 

http://www.sgcsc.org.uk/

Derbyshire Soaring Club 

http://www.derbyshiresoaringclub.org.uk/

Pennine Soaring Club 

http://www.penninesoaringclub.org.uk/

Lanarkshire and Lothian Soaring Club 

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ksy99i/index.html

COMPETITIONS and LEAGUES 

British Paragliding Competitions (and National XC League)

http://www.pgcomps.org.uk/

British Hang-gliding Competitions 

http://www.rogallo.co.uk/

National Hang-gliding XC League 

http://www.uknxcl.org.uk/

NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

British Hang-gliding and Paragliding Association (BHPA)

http://www.bhpa.co.uk/weather.php

Flyability (the disability initiative of the BHPA)

http://www.flyability.org.uk/Flyability-home.htm

German Hang-gliding and Paragliding Federation (DHV) 

http://www.dhv.de/typo/Home_English.3.0.html

French Federation of Free Flight (FFVL)

http://federation.ffvl.fr/

CUMBRIA TOURIST INFORMATION 

Official website for Cumbria Tourism 

http://www.golakes.co.uk/

Tourist Information Centres 

http://www.golakes.co.uk/thedms.asp?dms=11&param1=info&param2=info&catid=73&easi=true&msg=Browsing$$TIC$TICs$$in%20Cumbria

OTHER LINKS 

Ibex Internet (web design in Kendal)

http://www.ibexinternet.co.uk/

SkySystems – The Pilots Directory 

http://www.skysystems.co.uk/

Pilot friendly accommodation  

http://www.pinecottages.co.uk/

Great North Air Ambulance 

http://www.greatnorthairambulance.co.uk/

Lake District Outdoors 

http://www.lakedistrictoutdoors.co.uk/

Skywings (Official magazine of the BHPA) 

http://www.skywingsmag.com/

Windtech

http://www.windtech.co.uk/

Lake District National Park Authority

http://www.lake-district.gov.uk/index/enjoying/useful_links_enjoying.htm

National Trust 

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/

The Lake District in Cumbria 

http://www.lake-district-keswick.co.uk/index.html

Powered Hang-gliding 

http://www.bhpa.co.uk/hangglidepower/index.php

Paramotoring 

http://www.bhpa.co.uk/paramotor/index.php

Paragliderpilot.tk 

http://one.xthost.info/alex58/home.html