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Club Site Guides

Revised 12/7/25
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Tiger Mountain

New & Visiting Pilot Info

Welcome to Tiger Mountain. Before flying here we ask that you ensure your USHPA membership and rating is current, become a member of the club, and read the site guide. Then we recommend joining the Telegram channel to coordinate with locals for an in person site introduction. On almost any good flying day there will be locals out flying.

Paraglider from above

Pilot Information

Flight Planning

We recommend checking the Military Training Route Schedule for Rampart and Saddle first if you plan to fly  these sites. Low flying jet aircraft train in these areas and fly at 8 miles per minute! Eyes and ears open. Don't be a fly on a windshield!

 

Do Not Land File

The club maintains a list of locations where we have been asked to do our best not to land. You can download that file and add it to your flight computer. 

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Tree Rescue Contacts

These contacts can be helpful if a person or wing gets stuck in a tree. It can be good to have these numbers in your phone.

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Peter Gaines
Owner/Climber
Arborist/Tree Climber
C: (425) 410-1410
 
Dana Harper
Owner / Climber
Tree Rescue
C: (206) 786-8573
C: (530) 693-7558
 
Carla Mingione
Climber 
Tree Rescue
C: (360) 510-2827

 

Weather

 

Tiger Weather Stations

TJ Windgrams 

Wunderground.com

Sammamish MM5

How to read a Skew-T chart

A pilots view of how to read a Skew-T chart

      Navigate your way around MM5
Take a course on understanding the weather
Video on understanding skew-t charts - part 1
Video on understanding skew-t charts - part 2 

Non-commerical Tandems

In this section we describe the club's requirements for flying non-commercial tandem flights at NWPC managed sites.​ By definition, Tandem Flight is for instruction.

 

Rogallo level - Unpaid Tandem Instructors must be on the USHPA Certified Non-Commercial Instructors list and maintain non-commercial / non-compensation for the full past 12 months to qualify as having non-commercial / non-compensation ​status.  Even if a pilot fills in for a school to do a commercial tandem flight just for one flight, they are now considered an Instructor-for-Hire-or-Consideration by default for the next 12 months. All Tandem flights from NWPC Sites with Additional Insured Landowners must follow the USHPA tandem exemption and all USHPA protocols. Aero Sports Connection (ASC) exemption is not valid for tandem flight at NWPC Sites with Additional Insured Landowners.

 

All Tandem flight needs to comply with the FAA Exemption 4721 - Tandem Operations and latest FAA decisions as outlined on the USHPA website. 

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This text is derived from the SDHGPA site.

Tiger Mountain Weather

The Tiger weather tower is paid for and operated by the Northwest Paragliding Club. Live images, wind info and detailed reports can be viewed at David Wheeler's site. TJ Olney has produced a number of great weather visualizations for paragliders, check out Windgrams for local forecasts. More weather info available on the site page.

Windgrams
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