What Time to Fly? Is
Time to Fly? is a paramotor-focused weather planning tool designed to help pilots quickly identify realistic upcoming flight opportunities. Instead of forcing you to interpret raw forecast data, it highlights potential morning and evening flight windows based on conservative safety thresholds.
Built Around How Paramotor Pilots Actually Fly
The tool is intentionally centered on sunrise and sunset periods, when conditions are most likely to be smooth and flyable. It evaluates hourly forecast data and filters out periods that are unsafe, impractical, or too short to matter.
How Conditions Are Evaluated
Each forecast hour is analyzed using multiple weather factors, including wind speed, gusts, temperature, visibility, precipitation risk, and thermal activity. The results are then classified into clear, pilot-friendly categories such as:
- Smooth — ideal flying conditions
- Bumpy / Very Bumpy — increasing turbulence
- Wind High — winds exceed safe limits
- Thermic — likely thermal turbulence
Safety-First Filtering
Time to Fly? intentionally excludes forecast hours that fail to meet minimum safety criteria. Hours are removed when winds or gusts are too strong, visibility is reduced, rain is likely, or when a window is simply too brief to support a meaningful flight.
A Planning Tool — Not a Replacement
This tool is designed to surface potential opportunities quickly and efficiently. It does not replace a full weather briefing, but it helps you decide when it’s worth digging deeper before heading to the field.
Check It Before You Fly
You can use the Time to Fly? tool here: