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A curated list of awesome paragliding resources with focus on North America west coast
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# Awesome Paragliding 



A curated list of awesome resourses for paragliding with focus on North America West coast



## Flying Locations

### British Columbia

- Benny

- [Little Nic](sites/little_nic.md)

- Bridal falls

- [Grouse Mountain](https://gmft.westcoastsoaringclub.com/flying-grouse), P3 only 

- Pemberton

- [Woodside Mountain](http://www.flybc.org/siteoftheday.htm) by Jim Reach - Woodside mountain, BC, near Harrison Hot Springs

- [Lumby](https://www.freedomflightschool.com/) - Lubmy, BC, 5 hour drive from Vancouver, camping

- [Savona](https://www.flyok.ca/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=121), 3.5 hour drive from Vancouver, camping

- [Sun Peaks, ski resort](sun_peaks.md)

- [Revelstok](http://revelstokeparagliding.com/visiting-pilot-info/)

- [Hedly]

- ~Whistler Blackcomb~ :(



### Washington, US

- Mailbox

- [Tiger Mnt, Seattle](http://nwparagliding.com/PilotInfo/TigerMountain/tabid/236/Default.aspx)

### California, US

- [Mussel Rock Park, Paragliding Site aka “The Dumps”](http://www.paragliding-lessons.com/mrsg/)



## Paragliding Tours

### Mexico

- [Sea to Sky Paragliding](https://www.seatoskyparagliding.com/tours/) by Guy Herrington

### Nepal

- [Let Fly Paragliding](http://www.letflyparagliding.com/nepal-clinic-and-tours-1) with Ivan Ripoll

### World

- [Unique Paragliding Vacations](https://paragliding.bstoked.net/)



## Clinics

### SIV

- [Let Fly Paragliding with Dilan Benedetti](http://www.letflyparagliding.com/siv)- 3.5 days, $1150 USD, Napa Valley, CA, USA

- [iParaglide](http://www.iparaglide.com/paragliding-siv-acro-vancouver/) - $1200 CAD, 2+1 days, Pitt Lake, BC



- [SIV Clinic](https://www.sivclinic.com) - $950USD, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

- [Paraglidingmexico with Marko Hrgetic](https://www.paraglidingmexico.com/en/courses/siv-courses-yelapa) - 2-4 days, $600CAD - $1100CAD  -> [Yelapa, Mexico](https://goo.gl/maps/VQuLpDhtimQXytyy6)

- [Passion Paragliding](https://www.passionparagliding.com/siv) - £765, [Oludeniz, Turkey](https://goo.gl/maps/c4PMG3tYY8CnUGM7A)

- [Fly Spain](https://www.flyspain.co.uk/paragliding-holidays-courses/pilotage-siv/) - [Oludeniz, Turkey](https://goo.gl/maps/c4PMG3tYY8CnUGM7A)

- [Flyeo](https://flyeo.com/en/siv-course-2/) - [Annecy, France](https://goo.gl/maps/RHgJmSfgcjbHb1wN8)



### XC

- [Eagle Paragliding, Inc](https://paragliding.com/services/clinics/thermal-xc-clinic/) - 3 days, $795 USA, mostly in California, USA

- [Passion Paragliding](https://www.passionparagliding.com/siv) [Oludeniz, Turkey](https://goo.gl/maps/c4PMG3tYY8CnUGM7A)

- [SeaToSky paragliding](https://www.seatoskyparagliding.com/), Guy Herrington



### Ground handling

- [Groundhandling retreat](https://www.groundhandlingchallenge.com/retreat) - 890 Eur, Silver Coast, Portugal



## Clubs and associations 

### Canada

- [West Coast Soaring Club](https://www.westcoastsoaringclub.com/)

- [Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada](https://www.hpac.ca/pub/)

- [Fly BC](http://www.flybc.org/siteoftheday.htm) by Jim Reach - Woodside mountain, BC, near Harrison Hot Springs

- [The Freedom Flight Park](https://www.freedomflightschool.com/) - Lubmy, BC, 5 hour drive from Vancouver

### USA

#### Washington

- [Seattle Paragliding, Seattle](http://www.seattleparagliding.com/tiger.php)



## Planning

- [Paragliding Planning and Airspace](https://flyxc.app)

- [Paragliding Map](https://www.paraglidingmap.com/app/)

### Weather

- [Canada RASP](http://canadarasp.com/windgrams/select-windgram.htm)

### Navigation 

- [How to read nav charts](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/06/08/how-to-read-an-aeronautical-chart/)

- [How to read RASP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHksP0QCPW0)

- [Windgram explained](http://wxtofly.net/windgramexplain.html)



## Logbooks and flight analyse tools

- [Leonardo - paralog](http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo)

- [Flying track visualiser](https://ayvri.com/)



## Learn

### Yotube

- [Flybubble](https://www.youtube.com/user/FlybubbleParagliding)

- [Andre Bandarra](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzYf1cmKwDMSiII9SSp6IJw/featured) - ground handling

### Blogs

- [Dust of the universe - Testing recent paragliders and flying gear](http://ziadbassil.blogspot.com/)

- [Flybubble](https://flybubble.com/blog/gearguides/paraglider-reviews)

- [Groundhandling challenge](https://www.groundhandlingchallenge.com/retreat) by Andre Bandarra

- [Упал – отжался. Главное правило в горах.](http://www.para2000.ru/xc/xcfly/upal-otzhalsya)

- [Я есть ГРУТ! – Главное правило равнинного пилота.](http://www.para2000.ru/xc/xcfly/plants_rules/)



## Pilot Requirements

### [P3 Canada](https://hpac.ca/pub/?pid=363#PG3)

- minimum of 30 flying days

- at least 90 flights

- minimum of 60 hours of airtime

- HAGAR and P3 exam



## Safety



### Insurance

### Tracking



## Paragliding equipment 

- [Ozon](https://www.flyozone.com/paragliders/)

- [Nova](https://www.nova.eu/en/home/)

- [SupAir](https://www.supair.com/en/)

- [Niviuk](http://niviuk.com/en/)



### Vario

- [SkyDrop and SkyBean](https://skybean.eu/) - 230 EUR and 80 EUR



# TODO & ideas

- how to setup inReach for paragliging, including insurance

- If I buy a new ENB paraglide today 

- https://paragliding.bstoked.net/listings/fly-over-adriatic/