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.

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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.

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.

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Right Site Weather Aug 13, 2022

Paragliding Weather Forecast for the Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area, based on data available at 0500.

Low pressure with mostly cloudy skies and 30-60% POP in Chilliwack-Vancouver-Pemberton areas with sunnier skies in Seattle-Bellingham. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft SE to 17 km/hr easing to light and variable. Main valley wind E outflow to 15 km/hr becoming inflow to 10 km/hr.  Chilliwack with early inflow W wind and building to 20 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -3.2C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 31 km/hr easing to light and variable. Valley winds S and becoming SW to 13 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.7C/1000ft.  

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paraglding Seattle: -2.7C/1000ft Advanced peak lapse rate.  Wait for strong SW wind aloft to subside in mid afternoon. Tiger for P4 pilots 1400-2000. Chances to paraglide 70%.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.6C/1000ft Intermediate peak lapse rate. Wait fro strong SW wind aloft to subside in mid afternoon. Blanchard for P3 pilots 1400-1900. Chances to paraglide 70%. 

Paragliding is not recommended today in Chilliwack, Vancouver, Whistler or Pemberton due to low cloud base and POP up to 60%. 

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