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At iParaglide Top Gun Flight School, we take pride in having taught over 1900 paragliding students in our 26 years of operation.

We are the the longest running school based in Metro Vancouver. Due to our central location, we are the only school that flies all of the relevant kiting parks, training hills and mountains within a 3 hour radius of Vancouver.  This empowers pilots to get to know the key training and flying spots early, optimizes and accelerates learning, and allows them to grow into great future pilots.  

We have the reputation of being an industry leader with an emphasis on engineered safety systems, quality instruction, the finest equipment and a positive learning environment for fun and empowering flying.

We offer the highest level of accreditation, with Senior HPAC and Advanced USHPA paragliding instructors, who coach from first flight to expert paraglider pilots and teach and qualify new paragliding instructors.

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We recently graduated a CF-18 Hornet Pilot from our Top Gun iP2 Novice Paragliding Pilot program.  Read about his impressions of iParaglide.

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Located at 962 - 51st Street Tsawwassen, near Vancouver, BC, Canada, for all your paragliding needs. We are ideally situated just minutes away from the finest training hill at Diefenbaker Park.

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We are central to paragliding sites in the Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton, Whistler, Bellingham and Seattle area so students enjoy maximum variety and we can work with weather to optimize selection of the best location each day.

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iParaglide Right Site Weather: Oct 08

DateSunday, October 8, 2017 at 10:05

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast based on data available at 0800. 

High pressure establishing yielding clearing skies and mild winds.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable becoming WNW to 19 km/hr. Early E outflow to 10 km/hr becoming W inflow to 10 km/hr as sea-breeze establishes. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft N to 17 km/hr easing to light a variable in afternoon. Valley wind light and variable. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.4C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate.  Blanchard Mountain should be below north wind aloft influence and dominated by sea-breeze, but watch for possible early north wind aloft.  P2 pilots 1100-1800. Paragliding prospects 80%. 

2. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.5C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Wait for cloudbase to lift and summit to clear early cloud. Woodside for P3 pilots 1200-1800. 70% chances to paraglide. 

3. Paragliding Seattle: - 2.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Wait for early N wind aloft to subside.  Tiger for P2 pilots 1300-1800. Chances to paraglide 60%. 

4. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Mackenzie for P2 pilots 1300 onward but watch for increasing WNW winds aloft and possible switch to advanced P4 conditions as day progresses. Paragliding prospects 50%.

5. Paragliding Vancouver: - 2.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Wait for early cloud to lift. Grouse Mountain for GMFT P4 members 1200-1500 then watch for increasing crosswind WNW aloft.  Chances for paragliding 50%. 

6. Paragliding Whistler: -2.5C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Whistler team pilots at Whistler 1200 onward. Watch for increasing wind and rough conditions as day progresses.

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