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Links

Other Clubs / 
Flying Sites
SoCal:
  • Crestline Soaring Society (San Bernardino)
  • Soboba Flight Park (San Jacinto)
  • Sylmar Hang Gliding Association
Central Coast:
  • Santa Barbara Soaring Association
  • San Luis Obispo Soaring Association
Other California Clubs
Instruction/ Schools

See Schools listing Page

Forums / News
Paraglding Forum
Hanggliding.org
The Oz Report
Equipment / MFG

Ascent Varios


Weather Links

Forcasts
RASP Table
TOPA Flyers Sounding
San Diego NWS Fcst Discussion
San Diego NWS Soaring Forecast
Tad's Soaring Predictor
Windgrams
NOAA Winds
Torrey Pines Windfinder

Current SFC Winds
Torrey Pines Graphical
Torrey Pines Raw Data
Blossom Valley
Little Black
Horse (Cameron)
Horse (Buckman Springs)
Laguna (5800 ft)
Laguna (6300 ft)
Otay Mesa
Palomar Upper (Boucher Hill)
Palomar Middle (Nate Harrison Grade)
Palomar Lower (Pauma Valley)

WX Dashboard Links
Topa Flyers KNK Sounding
NOAA 7 Day Forcast
NOAA Digital Wind Forecast Maps
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XC Skies (subscription required)
Soaring Predictor Wind GramsSoaring Predictor SoCal Table
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Windyty Wind Forcast Map
MESO West Current Winds METAR Socal Map


Predictions
Bill's SD Mt Prediction (Posts by Others)
Rob McKenzie's Marshal Prediction 
 Jérôme's Soboba Prediction
Comps
SOCAL XC League
NORCAL XC League
US Nationals
Rat Race
Free Flight Eye Candy
Vimeo PG HD Channel
Vimeo HG HD Channel
Chrigel & Michael Maurer 120 mile XC
If you need rainy day XC fix, This will do it: https://youtu.be/DzE_a6dlKEI
A 6hr 20min fly along with  on an epic 120 / 140 mile end-to-end cross-country paragliding adventure XC flight from Zermatt to Klosters, Switzerland on 2015-06-03.

Or Jump to some good action: 
​Michael Maurer on explaining centering in on thermals while actually doing it at 2h27m https://youtu.be/DzE_a6dlKEI?t=2h27m00s

The track logs: http://www.xcontest.org/…/fl…/details:chrigel/3.6.2015/09:15
http://www.xcontest.org/…/flights/detail:Mich/3.6.2015/09:16

Other

If you are looking for Powered "non Free Flight" using similar wings as in PG (PPG), Powered HG, or other Ultralight flight, Refer to the following:
United States Powered Paragliding Association (USPPA)
United States Ultralight Association (USUA) 
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SDHGPA is a local chapter of 
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(United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association)
SDHGPA, P.O. Box 420973, San Diego, CA. 92142-0973