Top Gun Flight School

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.

Top Gun References

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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iParaglide Location

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.

iParaglide Flying Sites

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.

Right Stuff Equipment

We regularly test fly the latest paragliding gear and select only the very finest for our iParaglide Right Stuff Paragliding Equipment Store. This ensures our paraglider pilots enjoy a state of the art performance and safety advantage to accelerate their learning curve.

Paragliding Webcams/Wind Stations

Vancouver Paragliding Webcams - get a view of cloud base to plan your paragliding cross country flight adventure.

Woodside Mtn Webcam

Woodside Wind Station

Bridal Webcam

Bridal Wind Station

Chilliwack Webcam

Hope Webcam 

Pemberton Webcam

Tsawwassen Webcam

Bellingham Bay Webcam

Tiger Mtn Webcam 

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Saturday
Jun172017

iParaglide Right Site Weather: June 17

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast based on data available at 0500. 

Low to North bringing mostly cloudy skies with up to 40% POP.  Jet Stream proximity increasing instability.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft SE to 17 Km/hr and increasing to 26 km/hr. Valley wind outflow to 15 km/hr becoming easing to light and variable as day progresses. Intermediate peak lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SSW to 17 km/hr.  Valley wind SW to 10 km/hr.  Advanced peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

Mostly cloudy with up to 40% POP in Vancouver, Chilliwack and Pemberton Valleys today.

Mostly sunny in Bellingham & Seattle area. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: -2.8C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Tiger should be on today with some great flying. P2 conditions 0800-1300 and 1800-2100 with P4 conditions 1300-1800. 80% chances to paraglide.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.4C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate.  Blanchard often has a blue hole when other areas do not, in addition the proximity to ocean dampens actual lapse rate. 0800-1400 and 1700-2000, Blanchard for P2 pilots 0800-2000. Paragliding prospects 90%.

Paragliding not recommended in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton and Whistler areas today. 

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