The following links are grouped for clarity and provided for convenience. Their inclusion is not an endorsement of any commercial products or services offered. Given there are over 1.5 billion websites world wide, these lists are not exhaustive.
Weather
- Windy - a weather website to cater to free flyers; has multiple predictive models and allows for height selection, useful for assessing possible wind on hills and wind gradient
- xcweather - a straight forward site for looking at wind and weather from a free flying perspective
- RASP - Regional Atmospheric Soaring Prediction. Extremely useful site for helping decide if a day within the next 5 is likely to be a good cross country day
- XC Para - RASP - link to a more PG / HG tailored version of RASP (works well on mobile devices)
- Met Office - An old fallback; helpful forecasts of general weather up to several days in advance
- Tinto weather station - The Club runs a weather station as its "main" flying site on Tinto
Regulatory Authorities / Related
- BHPA - the UK national body, the British Hang gliding and Paragliding Association
- SHPF - the Scottish Hang gliding and Paragliding Federation
- NOTAMs (NATS) - the National Air Traffic System site with information on NOTAMs (Notices to Airmen)
- NOTAMinfo - a helpful site showing known NOTAMs and areas affected
- CANP - the BHPA website page dedicated to the Civil Aircraft Notification Procedure
- CANP app - a very useful website for entering notifications under the Civil Aircraft Notification Procedure
- FAI CIVL - the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, free flight section (CIVL) website
- Air Turquoise - French testing house, reports website
- DHV Test Reports - the German authority's test report database
Flying Sites
- Paragliding Earth - a well thought out website with 5323 (February 2020) flying sites around the world
- Paragliding Map - another well thought out site, combining data from several sources (including Paragliding Earth) and weather information to give indications of suitable flying sites for a given day
Neighbouring Clubs
- Aberdeen HG & PG Club - covering the Aberdeen and surrounding area
- Highland HG & PG Club - covering the western Highlands
- SMP - Scottish Mountain Paragliding (currently without a website - see https://www.bhpa.co.uk/clubs/clubs.php)
- Wingbeat Paragliding Club - covering the eastern Borders
- Northumbria HG & PG Club - covering the very north east of England
- Cumbria Soaring Club - covering the Lake District of England
Competitions / Leagues
- XC League - for UK paragliding flights and several club leagues.
- XC League for Hang gliding
- British Paragliding Cup (BPC) - for UK pilots starting out on competitions; some rounds may be outside the UK
- British Opens - covering the BP Cup and other UK compettions, including the BCC (British Club Challenge)
- GIN Wide Open - a very popular entry level international PG competition
- Naviter Open - another very popular entry level international PG competition
- Ozone Chabre Open - and another very popular entry level international PG competition
- Paragliding World Cup (PWC) - one of the leading international PG competitions
- World Hang Gliding competitions
- X-Alps - an astounding PG competition taking place alternate years. Competitors fly or go on foot from one end of the European Alps to the other
- X-Pyr - similar to the X-Alps but across the Pyrenees
- Paragliding Accuracy - pilots land on very small targets with amazing accuracy
- Paragliding Acro - solo and multiple pilots perform aerial tricks with astounding fluidity, beauty and accuracy - as with snowboarding, some of the tricks have incomprehensible names
Fora / Blogs / Magazines / Reviews
- Paragliding Forum
- TheParaglider.com - an excellent collection of articles and podcasts about paragliding topics - run by UK Caedmon Mullin and Spain based Judith Mole
- Cloudbase Mayhem - a great blog and collection of podcasts on paragliding and adventure topics by the US's Gavin McClurg
- Cross Country Magazine - a (the?) leading English language magazine for hang gliding and paragliding
- Dust of the Universe - a blog run by Ziad Bassil with a particular focus on PG wing reviews
- British Hang Gliding History - Scotland - great article on the history of hang gliding in Scotland with a number of key active "names" in the making of that history
Some Manufacturers
HG - Aeriane Swift, Aeros, Airborne, Avian, Bautek, Ellipse, Finsterwalder, Icaro 2000, Ikarus, La Mouette, Moyes, North Wing, Quasar, Ulteam, Union, UP Gliders, Wills Wing, Woody Valley
PG - Advance, APCO, Axis, BGD, Dudek, GIN, Gradient, Icaro, Independence, Kortel, Mac Para, Niviuk, Nova, Ozone, Sol, Skyman, Skywalk, Supair, Swing, Triple Seven, U-Turn, UP, Woody Valley
Instruments - Flymaster, Garmin - inReach, Naviter, Renschler, Skybean/Skydrop, Syride
Other - X-Dream Fly
Other
Non-flying films involving flying - Cloud Cuckoo Land, Untouchable (remade in English as The Upside), Jurassic Park III