HPAC membership report · August 2026

Snapshot: hpac_members_082026.json · Generated 2026-08-23 03:00 · active = membership expiry ≥ 2026-08-23

Total in roster

6,852

Active

1,189

17.4% of roster

Lapsed

5,663

Active outside Canada

2.9% of active

Active w/ unknown country

malformed address field

Active instructors

112

Active members by Canadian province

ParaglidingHang glidingBothNo rating

Province	Active	PG	HG	Both	None	HAGAR
British Columbia (BC)	486	444	22	17	3	213
Quebec (QC)	255	205	23	23	4	103
Alberta (AB)	182	151	18	10	3	68
Ontario (ON)	83	51	26	4	2	33
Yukon (YT)	16	13	1	1	1	5
Manitoba (MB)	11	4	7	0	0	6
Saskatchewan (SK)	9	5	4	0	0	4
Nova Scotia (NS)	6	4	1	1	0	2
Prince Edward Island (PE)	3	2	1	0	0	2
New Brunswick (NB)	2	2	0	0	0	0
Northwest Territories (NT)	2	2	0	0	0	0

Active members by discipline

Discipline	Count
Paragliding only	896
Hang gliding only	104
Both PG + HG	56
No rating recorded	133

Active members by country

Country	Count
Canada	1055
Unknown	99
USA	22
International	13

Lapsed members — last known expiry by year

Year	BC	QC	AB	ON	Other CA	Outside Canada	Total
2026	181	54	79	21	15	45	395
2025	144	37	33	23	10	117	364
2024	111	28	34	28	11	93	305
2023	99	27	40	14	11	26	217
2022	126	55	32	21	14	58	306
2021	74	23	24	12	5	5	143
2020	71	23	23	15	13	5	150
2010–2019	482	277	214	129	71	681	1854
2000–2009	403	231	170	193	64	245	1306
Before 2000	161	65	132	187	63	15	623

Upcoming renewals (active members)

Window	Members expiring
Within 30 days	203
Within 60 days	291
Within 90 days	335

Active rating distribution

Paragliding

P2 Novice	644
P4 Advanced	181
P3 Intermediate	110
P1 Beginner	15
P5 Master	2

Hang gliding

H2 Novice	68
H4 Advanced	46
H3 Intermediate	35
H1 Beginner	6
H5 Master	5

Active instructors and endorsements per province

Counts active CA members per province. Endorsement codes parsed from comma-separated fields (PG ∪ HG): SIV = SIV manoeuvres, HAGAR = high-altitude gliding, TS = tandem, CR = cross-country.

Province	Active	Instructors	SIV	HAGAR	TS	CR
British Columbia (BC)	486	56	119	213	399	292
Quebec (QC)	255	26	32	103	178	151
Alberta (AB)	182	17	54	68	117	126
Ontario (ON)	83	9	5	33	59	37
Yukon (YT)	16	1	3	5	10	10
Manitoba (MB)	11	1	0	6	5	5
Saskatchewan (SK)	9	1	1	4	5	1
Nova Scotia (NS)	6	0	0	2	2	0
Prince Edward Island (PE)	3	0	0	2	2	2
New Brunswick (NB)	2	0	0	0	1	1
Northwest Territories (NT)	2	0	0	0	2	0

Active instructors with lapsed or missing certifications

81 instructors flagged (active membership + instructor role, but at least one required cert is missing or expired). Sorted by oldest cert.

#	Name	Province	Instructor (PG)	Courses PG	Instructor (HG)	Courses HG	First-aid
392	Benoit Tremblay	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	(missing)
1484	Brett Hazlett	British Columbia	—	—	HG Instructor	(missing)	(missing)
689	Michael BaldEagle Robertson	Ontario	—	—	HG Senior Instructor T2	(missing)	(missing)
1127	Michel Solomon	Quebec	—	—	HG Instructor	(missing)	(missing)
2204	Tom Dudley	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	(missing)
1613	Philip Siscoe	Ontario	—	—	HG Instructor	(missing)	2003-03-11 (expired)
1546	Zdenek Erban	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2004-05-05 (expired)
108	Russell Russ Fretenburg	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2005-05-04 (expired)
597	Ken Kinzie	Ontario	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2006-08-16 (expired)
386	Patrick Golliot	Quebec	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2007-03-30 (expired)
1322	Eric Paquette	Quebec	—	—	HG Instructor	(missing)	2009-10-01 (expired)
3063	Pierre Peter Vanier	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2010-05-28 (expired)
146	Martin Polach	Alberta	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2011-05-21 (expired)
2651	Matthieu Chiquet	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2011-11-14 (expired)
152	Michael Schulte	British Columbia	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2011-12-31 (expired)
3320	Greg Burgess	Nova Scotia	—	—	HG Instructor	(missing)	2012-06-15 (expired)
87	Lyle Johnson	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2013-03-18 (expired)
3299	Stein Myhrstad	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2013-05-14 (expired)
3159	Doug Nitchie	British Columbia	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2013-10-23 (expired)
2446	Alex Raymont	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2014-02-01 (expired)
3375	Brett Yeates	British Columbia	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2016-04-14 (expired)
759	Darrel Bossert	Alberta	—	—	HG Instructor	(missing)	2016-05-29 (expired)
969	Guy Leblanc	Quebec	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2017-03-11 (expired)
3813	Deny Bilodeau	Quebec	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2017-05-25 (expired)
2947	Tomasz Tom Chromy	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2017-08-16 (expired)
4204	Ian Haigh	Alberta	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2018-03-08 (expired)
739	Gilles Bernard	Quebec	—	—	HG Senior Instructor	(missing)	2018-06-07 (expired)
3644	Patric Stettler	Alberta	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2018-08-05 (expired)
1313	Normand Di Domenico	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2018-09-20 (expired)
3791	Stéphane Regner	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2019-05-07 (expired)
200	François Dussault	Quebec	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2019-05-13 (expired)
2452	Xavier Bergeron	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2019-06-16 (expired)
3213	Claude LeBel	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2019-10-29 (expired)
4015	Henry Levesque	British Columbia	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2019-12-14 (expired)
336	Doug Skye	Alberta	PG Senior Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2020-04-07 (expired)
331	Kevin Thomson	Ontario	—	—	HG Instructor T1	2029-05-31 ✓	2020-05-25 (expired)
3148	Ryan Wood	Saskatchewan	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2020-07-29 (expired)
3948	Andrei Kravchenko	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2021-03-22 (expired)
4019	Chad Chudyk	Alberta	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2021-05-31 (expired)
4070	Christian Grenier	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2021-05-31 (expired)
1587	Frank Kernick	Alberta	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2021-05-31 (expired)
2727	Greg Hemingway	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2021-05-31 (expired)
2008	Jim Orava	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2021-05-31 (expired)
2220	Julie Bouchard-Roussin	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2021-05-31 (expired)
1798	Daniel Deltadan Léveillé	Quebec	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2021-10-22 (expired)
4612	Kai Sorge	Alberta	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2022-05-30 (expired)
5093	John Wieland	British Columbia	PG Instructor	2028-05-04 ✓	—	—	2023-01-08 (expired)
2654	Patrick Dupuis	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	2027-11-15 ✓	HG Instructor	(missing)	2023-09-29 (expired)
5894	Dominik Geisseler	British Columbia	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2024-02-16 (expired)
232	Normand deltanorm Michaud	Quebec	—	—	HG Instructor T2	(missing)	2024-03-11 (expired)
4532	Curtis Blewett	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2024-03-17 (expired)
2664	Luc Mailloux	British Columbia	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2024-05-21 (expired)
4298	Larry Shumlich	Alberta	—	—	HG Instructor	2027-03-24 ✓	2024-05-25 (expired)
1207	Edmond Eddy Rivere	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2024-06-16 (expired)
5108	Rod Regier	Ontario	—	—	HG Instructor	2029-05-31 ✓	2024-07-17 (expired)
3351	Derek Kovacic	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	2028-06-29 ✓	—	—	2024-09-14 (expired)
6384	Tayt Low	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	2026-09-17 ✓	—	—	2024-11-19 (expired)
836	Terri Dyke	Saskatchewan	—	—	HG Instructor T1	(missing)	2025-01-13 (expired)
5536	Rebecca Jean Peric	British Columbia	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2025-05-18 (expired)
1093	Michael miguel Roberts	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2025-06-04 (expired)
3646	Benoit Waller	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2025-06-18 (expired)
3772	Norvel Hernandez Cobas	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2025-07-29 (expired)
273	Peter MacLaren	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2025-09-21 (expired)
5380	Jimmy Giroux	Quebec	PG Instructor	2028-10-12 ✓	—	—	2025-12-01 (expired)
4810	Jeff Relph	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2025-12-31 (expired)
5009	Pedro Eiler Pedersen	British Columbia	—	—	HG Instructor	2028-04-20 ✓	2026-02-12 (expired)
2405	Alexandre Ménard	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	2029-04-19 ✓	HG Instructor T1	2029-04-19 ✓	2026-04-28 (expired)
870	Samuel Gendron	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	2028-10-12 ✓	HG Instructor	2028-10-12 ✓	2026-04-28 (expired)
4582	Pascal Pascal Ogez	Quebec	PG Instructor	2027-09-10 ✓	—	—	2026-05-25 (expired)
6643	Lucas Kowal	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	2028-04-13 ✓	—	—	2026-08-11 (expired)
2601	René Caissy	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2026-10-20 ✓
4901	Richard Bruneau	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2027-04-19 ✓
2996	David Underwood	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	2027-05-12 ✓	HG Instructor	(missing)	2028-08-18 ✓
3870	Robert Bob Pelletier	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2027-06-14 ✓
2337	Eric Brent	Ontario	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2027-07-04 ✓
4091	Peyman Imani	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2027-08-25 ✓
4520	Jason Chychul	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2027-12-20 ✓
5186	David Cloutier	Quebec	PG Instructor	(missing)	—	—	2028-05-02 ✓
2725	Vincent Vaillancourt	Quebec	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	HG Instructor T2	(missing)	2028-05-05 ✓
4569	Craig Ellis	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2028-06-06 ✓
2678	Alastair Collis	British Columbia	PG Instructor T1	(missing)	—	—	2028-11-07 ✓

Active members per year (modelled)

Synthetic estimate — the API only exposes each member's latest expiry, so this curve assumes (a) annual memberships, (b) continuous renewal until the last known expiry, and (c) member_number is roughly sequential, anchored at HPAC's founding year (1974). Treat the absolute heights as an order-of-magnitude indication, not a precise count.

Cohort retention by member-number block

Member numbers are roughly sequential by join era — older blocks have lower retention; the 8000-block is mostly current joiners.

ActiveLapsed

Range	Total	Active	Lapsed	Retention
#0–999	623	54	569	8.7%
#1,000–1,999	516	40	476	7.8%
#2,000–2,999	750	69	681	9.2%
#3,000–3,999	930	78	852	8.4%
#4,000–4,999	950	87	863	9.2%
#5,000–5,999	892	130	762	14.6%
#6,000–6,999	932	150	782	16.1%
#7,000–7,999	879	292	587	33.2%
#8,000–8,999	380	289	91	76.1%

Top Canadian cities (active members)

#	City	Province	Active
1	Calgary	Alberta	84
2	Vancouver	British Columbia	38
3	Revelstoke	British Columbia	30
4	Montreal	Quebec	22
5	Kelowna	British Columbia	22
6	Golden	British Columbia	22
7	Victoria	British Columbia	21
8	Canmore	Alberta	20
9	Squamish	British Columbia	20
10	Edmonton	Alberta	19
11	North Vancouver	British Columbia	18
12	Lumby	British Columbia	18
13	Pemberton	British Columbia	17
14	Rossland	British Columbia	12
15	Toronto	Ontario	12
16	Cochrane	Alberta	12
17	Chilliwack	British Columbia	10
18	Burnaby	British Columbia	10
19	Montréal	Quebec	10
20	Whistler	British Columbia	10
21	Ottawa	Ontario	10
22	Whitehorse	Yukon	9
23	Vernon	British Columbia	8
24	Sherbrooke	Quebec	8
25	Rimouski	Quebec	8
26	Québec	Quebec	8
27	Gatineau	Quebec	8
28	Richmond	British Columbia	8
29	Nanaimo	British Columbia	8
30	Kamloops	British Columbia	8
31	Agassiz	British Columbia	8
32	Granby	Quebec	7
33	Quebec	Quebec	7
34	Invermere	British Columbia	7
35	Mission	British Columbia	7
36	Surrey	British Columbia	6
37	Saint-Paul-D'Abbotsford	Quebec	6
38	Fernie	British Columbia	6
39	Smithers	British Columbia	6
40	Nelson	British Columbia	6
41	Kitchener	Ontario	6
42	Coquitlam	British Columbia	5
43	Port Moody	British Columbia	5
44	Langley	British Columbia	5
45	Williams Lake	British Columbia	5
46	Okotoks	Alberta	5
47	Dawson City	Yukon	5
48	Gibsons	British Columbia	5
49	Mississauga	Ontario	5
50	Burlington	Ontario	4
51	Kimberley	British Columbia	4
52	Hinton	Alberta	4
53	Bromont	Quebec	4
54	Salmon Arm	British Columbia	4
55	Jasper	Alberta	4
56	Boucherville	Quebec	4
57	Winnipeg	Manitoba	4
58	Sherwood Park	Alberta	4
59	Abbotsford	British Columbia	4
60	Prince George	British Columbia	4
61	Brackendale	British Columbia	4
62	Coldstream	British Columbia	3
63	Repentigny	Quebec	3
64	Saint Paul D'Abbotsford	Quebec	3
65	Qualicum Beach	British Columbia	3
66	St-Paul D'Abbotsford	Quebec	3
67	Verdun	Quebec	3
68	Laval	Quebec	3
69	North York	Ontario	3
70	Brossard	Quebec	3
71	Mont-Louis	Quebec	3
72	Terrace	British Columbia	3
73	Port Coquitlam	British Columbia	3
74	Chicoutimi	Quebec	3
75	Oshawa	Ontario	3

Active member map

1045 of 1054 active CA members plotted (99.1% — cities the geocoder couldn't resolve are omitted from the map but appear in the table above).

Source: https://members.hpac.ca/api/v1/members · Membership status derived from expiry_dates.membership. Province inferred from the second comma-separated component of address; may be wrong for records with malformed addresses. Geocoding via OpenStreetMap Nominatim (cached locally).