FlyBC's Paragliding Site of the Day November 2018 Archive Page - from the Universe's Largest Paragliding Centre :-)

Date	Site	Forecast	Winds @ 3000' in knots	Lapse Rate °C/1000' Cloud Base in Meters	Comments
11-27-18 to 11-30-18	FlyBC is closed today due to rain	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Rain. High 10.	040° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - FlyBC was closed due to heavy rain. Good time for book-keeping and indoor chores and packing for Mexico for tha past three days.
11-26-18	FlyBC is closed today due to rain	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Rain. High 10.	040° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - FlyBC was closed due to rain and we had a monsoon later in the day and all evening too. But we got some video from the last day that Kyle & James flew on their graduation flights.
11-24-18	FlyBC is open after 10 am	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers early this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 7. UV index 1 or low.	040° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - we went up the mountain at noon to try to get Jessica a tandem flight and I got Colleen to do it as I have a lame knee due to a construction incident. We waited til 1 pm and it finally cycled up enough for Colleen to launch. Then Chris & Sebastian took off in short order.
11-24-18	FlyBC is open after 10 am	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 8. UV index 1 or low.	240° @ 12	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - Kyle & James came out to write their P-2 Exams and both passed with ease! Then we went flying to celebrate their 31st flights and graduation to Novice Pilots. Both are becoming well-rounded pilots able to launch in most conditions with style and grace. This Ozone Buzz Z4 ML that Kyle is flying is for sale with about 10 flights on it now. Elk Report - Not sure if ya’ll got up flying at Woodside today but Marshall and I were able to get our first flight in at Elk mountain. Here’s a few pictures of that if you are curious of the conditions. Little wind on launch so it was a forward launch, and freezing cold in the air! This wintery flying is a different beast for sure. We were both frozen so we didn’t try to stay up, but the building clouds gave lift and if we were well padded for winter I would think we could’ve stayed up for a while. As it was this was a little over a 20min flight with no attempts made to stay up.
11-21-18 to 11-23-18	FlyBC is closed until the weekend and it looks like Savona again as the rain persists here at Woodside	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Cloudy. Rain beginning this morning. Amount 5 to 10 mm. Windy. High 7.	240° @ 15	-3.0°C (unstable) 600 metres	Woodside Report - three days of solid rain has made the Ranch very wet.
11-20-18	FlyBC is here at 10 am hoping to fly multiple times at Woodside	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Sunny. High 10C. Winds NE 5-10 kph.	040° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - we were hoping to fly Woodside all day and had just Michael & Mark here for lessons. They are both around the 18 flight mark, and Dennie was managing them as I was dealing with a construction issue. Mark, Michael & Martin N flew the first flight at 1 pm, in light winds. Martin went home and it was just the two students flying the second flight. I was going to take Chris' daughter tandem again as she was very hapy after the first flight and we went up at 3 pm to find strong outflow winds on launch afte the sun got blocked out by incoming clouds. We waited til 4:15 pm but it never abated so down the hill in the Bus. Thanks to Dennie for the great coaching today!
11-19-18	FlyBC is here at Woodside	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Sunny. High 10C. Winds light and variable.	040° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - I was doing errands in Vancouver early on but arrived at 1 pm to find a group assembling to go up Woodside. Martin N, Derek, Harald and I were going to go flying but I offered up my driving skills as it looked like a sled ride. Harald was flying his new SupAir Leaf Light and did some great reverse launches in light winds. Martin & Derek were "duking it out" trying to see who could stay in the air the longest but it was so light that they were fighting over whose 10:15 flight was the longest. I was later tied up moving furniture with Derek & Martin's help and a neighbours tractor which was the most dangerous activity today for me (readying the house for XMAS).
11-18-18	FlyBC is road tripping to Savona all weekend as there is too much outflow here	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Sunny. High 10C. Winds NE 10-15 kph.	040° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Savona Report - we stayed in the Savona area last night and we were on the hill at 10 am. Perfect conditions with 15-20 kph NE winds all day and soarable for everyone. The only person landing at the bottom was Artem flying a slightly overloaded Icaro Wildcat, and not under guidance as he is a P-2. We had Harald, Mark, Kalina, Kyle and Artem flying all day long til 2:30 pm when we headed back to Vancouver after 5 hours of soaring and training. I even got to fly the Ozone Mojo 3 M (also slightly overloaded) and did a couple of flights top-landing each time. Mark was not flying his new Ozone Rush 4 XL as it was a bit too strong for him so we had him on the Geo 2 L instead and Artem took the Rush 4 XL out for a few soaring flights so he could make up for landing at the bottom five times. Kyle was flying with a GoPro can got some good shots today!
11-17-18	FlyBC is road tripping to Savona all weekend as there is too much outflow here	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Sunny. High 10C. Winds NE 10-15 kph.	040° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Savona Report - it looked like a road trip to Savona was the only possible way to fly this weekend so we headed off on Saturday morning. We arrived at noon and the Dump Ridge was working and Kyle took off and started soaring on his new Ozone Geo 4. Kyle top landed and was getting ready to go again as I clipped into the Ozone Atom 3 Small and got dragged across the flats as it picked up fast. I bunched up the Atom 3 and told everyone to pack up and we headed to Coyote Hill. We arrived there to find light winds and the guys got two flights there landing amongst the bulls.
11-16-18	FlyBC is road tripping to Hedley as there is too much outflow here and Savona says 30-40 kph SW winds	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Sunny. High 10C. Winds NE 10-15 kph.	040° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Mission Report - I decided that a road trip to Hedley was the only possible way to fly today, but the students did not need more flights . . . they needed more ground handling and launches so we went to Mission Cherry Hill Park. It was a good call as the winds were 10-20 kph from the NE and cycling right up the slope. By the end of the day Lucas & Harald had done at least a dozen flights and were getting really good at controlling the wings. When we got back to the Ranch at 4 pm, it was still too strong to kite.
11-15-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly at Woodside today after 10 am	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: PM Showers. High 11C. Winds light and variable.	240° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - the rain never let up today so we did chores, spreading gravel and shipping gear out.
11-14-18	FlyBC is getting rained out	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: PM Showers. High 11C. Winds light and variable.	240° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Monsoon Report - it rained hard all day and the parking area is a marsh so I ordered up 12 yards of gravel to help drain the water.
11-13-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly at Woodside today after 10 am	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: PM Showers. High 11C. Winds light and variable.	240° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - we got to fly Woodside but the pre-frontal winds did not happen til around 3 pm, so flolks waited on top as our students flew three flights. I flew Chris M's 4.5 year old daughter tandem and we only got a few passes and headed out to land while Kevin & Claudia got higher. Newly signed off pilot Lucas launched last around 330 pm and went straight up to 1100 metres where he found it quite windy, so full bar out to the Ranch and still going up with "big ears".
11-12-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly at Woodside today if the front arrives before dark	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Sunny. High 12C. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 km/h.	040° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - we were not planning to fly due to outflow here at Woodside and strong NE winds forecast for Savona. It was a good call as Lucas and Martin N bagged one flight at 2 pm, with very light launch cycles. Lucas also had time to write his P-2 Exam, a final step towards certification. Reports from students Harald & Kyle who camped at Savona said the winds were way too strong to fly all day.
11-11-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly at Cache creek today	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Partly cloudy. High 12C. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 km/h.	040° @ 15	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Road Trip Report - we headed up to Coyote near the Ashcroft Manor and found the gates locked. Apparently the ranchers are tired of people chewing up the hillsides in quads and motorcycles? We did gain access by begging and got to launch to find it calm and cross but Kyle, Lucas, Mike and James all flew off twice before we headed to Savona. Savona has the advantage of a short hike up the Dump Ridge for multiple flights and the Kamloops windtalker was showing 7-10 k of east wind. We arrived at 230 pm, to find +25 kph of wind and no one had to hike up because it was soarable and top-landable til dark! Here Kyle and Lucas are soaring together with ease. Perfect launching conditions and cold, dense air made soaring easy. Everyone got to soar and practice high wind kiting. Mike got his first Savona flight and did a top-landing too. Mike's friend Alex arrived today for his first day of kiting and was able to reverse kite and reverse launch by the end of the day. He also kited forward for 2-3 minutes with little help from me! By the end of day Kyle had 7 Savona flights and 2 Coyote flights and is flying very well. Lucas lost track of his Savona flights but he was at 25 flights at Coyote as was James. Today was a big graduation day for them.
11-10-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly around 10 am as soon as the clouds lift	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Partly cloudy. High 12C. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 km/h.	040° @ 15	-3.0°C (unstable) 800 metres	Woodside Report - we headed up the mountain at 11 am and the clouds started forming out front and blocked us in for about 30 minutes. We started launching at noon and the students had great first flights with some light thermals. The second flights at 1 pm were even better with up to an hour of soaring. The local pros were out and enjoying up to 2 hours of thermalling up to 980 metres. We went up just after 2 pm for a set of 3 tandems but we were denied as it started to blow down the mountain. We did wait for about 40 minutes but it just never happened.
11-9-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly around 3 pm but the clouds look quite low	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Periods of rain ending near noon then cloudy with 40 percent chance of drizzle. High plus 5. UV index 1 or low.	240° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 600 metres	Woodside Report - we were hoping to fly Woodside but the clouds stayed low and it drizzled all day long.
11-8-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly and it may be soarable by 1 pm	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Showers Early. Low 4C. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 km/h.	240° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 900 metres	Woodside Report - FlyBC was open today at noon, hoping to fly Woodside but folks did not go up until 1 pm. Derek, Andrei, Shaun G and Blake went up and had a tough fight to stay up more than 30 minutes. At least Shaun got to fly his new Gin Explorer! I was working with the carpenter on decks and such and could not come flying with the boys. Andrei helped retrieve Derek's truck and Blake & Shaun got one more flight to cap off the day.
11-8-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly and it may be flyable by 1 pm	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Sunny. High 9C. Winds NW at 10 to 15 km/h.	240° @ 5	-3.0°C (unstable) 900 metres	Woodside Report - FlyBC was open today at noon, hoping to fly Woodside but it was howling from the North most of the day. I sent Lucas out with the 14 metre Speedwing to kite, as it was too strong for a full sized wing. Amin & Sean arrived at 1 pm and they were kiting regular wings by then. We had two tandems to do and Brad and I got the gear ready and we loaded up the loaner Transit Van and we were on top by 2 pm. Some up cycles but mostly leeside conditions. The Eagles were soaring in smooth thermals though! Amin launched on his brand new Gin Bonanza 2 and started climbing. Brad launched with Meilana and they were thermalling in front of launch. Derek was next followed by Lucas & Sean, and everyone was soaring around. I got my tandem set up and all we had was downcycles for about 15 minutes. But we got a puff and we were off and soaring too. I headed straight out to the Valley where Derek was still soaring around with some eagles. We had a magical flight and we could fly anywhere in the valley as it was no wind and lifty everywhere. Some of the thermals were quite punchy too. But short-lived. We set up for a west wind approach, odd for Eagle Ranch but it was outflow. After we landed we heard from Kevin who was up on launch and waiting for cycles. He did get off with a forward launch but missed the good valley lift as the sun sets fast these days.
11-6-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly between showers and it may be soarable by 1 pm	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: 40% Precip. / 6.27 mm Showers. High 11C. Winds light and variable.	240° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 700 metres	Woodside Report - FlyBC was open today at 10 am, hoping to fly Woodside but we had rain and high winds til 3 pm. Lucas arrived and exclaimed that he could see launch, so we prepared and headed up the hill around 4 pm. Low cloudbase behind launch but launch was open. We got Lucas ready and there were launchable lulls that lasted 2 - 3 minutes! Perfect! Lucas was off and soaring but went too far north for the strength of the wind so we focussed on staying upwind and he climbed high with ease even further out. I drove down and was able to watch Lucas' approach as it was very buoyant.
11-5-18	FlyBC is hoping to fly between showers and it may be soarable by 1 pm	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: 40% Precip. / 6.27 mm Showers. High 11C. Winds light and variable.	240° @ 10	-3.0°C (unstable) 700 metres	Woodside Monsoon Report - FlyBC was open today at 10 am, hoping to fly Woodside but the weather proved far too wet.
11-4-18	FlyBC is doubtful about any flying today with the RASP showing strong winds and the forecast calling for Thunderstorms	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Risk of thunderstorms this morning. Windy. High 15. UV index 1 or low.	240° @ 25	-3.0°C (unstable) 700 metres	Woodside Report - FlyBC was closed due to high winds in the forecast.
11-3-18	FlyBC is doubtful about any flying today with the RASP showing strong winds and the forecast calling for Thunderstorms	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Risk of thunderstorms this morning. Windy. High 15. UV index 1 or low.	240° @ 25	-3.0°C (unstable) 700 metres	Woodside Monsoon Report - FlyBC was closed and no roadtrips due to BC rains.
11-2-18	FlyBC is doubtful about any flying today with the RASP showing strong winds and the forecast calling for Thunderstorms	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Risk of thunderstorms this morning. Windy. High 15. UV index 1 or low.	240° @ 25	-3.0°C (unstable) 700 metres	Woodside Report - FlyBC got rained out and even the Interior looked wet.
11-1-18	FlyBC is closed due to heavy rains	Woodside Forecast Harrison Mills Forecast: Rainfall Warning.100 percent chance of showers this morning. High 12. UV index 1 or low.	240° @ 15	-3.0°C (unstable) 700 metres	Woodside Report - I headed up to Whistler to deliver the brown Van to a new owner and had lunch with Jack C who drove me back to Vancouver. From downtown I took the Westcoast Express out to Mission (if I had to commute from Vancouver this is a sweet way to travel).