Links to useful websites

Weather tutorials

Soundings tutorial

Forecast soundings

Weatherjack

Foehn winds explanation (youtube video)

Weather forecasts

All weather charts on one page

BBC Pressure Charts

Long Mynd Soaring club predictions

Met Office Aviation Web Site (requires free registration but worth it)

UK RASP and soundings (predicted thermals etc.)

Real-time weather

Current weather conditions around the UK

Weather stations in UK

Current Weather Observations around the UK

Current Weather Observation at RAF Wattisham

Real-time weather near Corton

Tide predictions

Cromer tides for the next week

Lowestoft tides for the next week

Airspace

AIS2KML Google Display of Airspace (uses data from links below)

NOTAMS

NOTAMS User Guide

Airspace to download to your Garmin

Airspace for Google Earth

Hang gliding

How a hang glider is made

The Oz Report daily blog

Source of Ozzo gloves

GPS Map download (you want sendmap20)

Richard Hunts Google Earth tools, including NOTAM display

I want to fly a hang glider across the UK

Maps

Landranger or other coordinate distance calculator

Other

Pilot Quiz

Animated explanation of polar curves and peed to fly

French autoroute calculator, including peage