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At iParaglide Top Gun Flight School, we take pride in having taught over 2,000 paragliding students in our 27 years of operation.

 

We are 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 creating 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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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 Paragliding Weather Mar.25, 2012

DateSunday, March 25, 2012 at 7:59

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver-Seattle corridor.  High pressure brings sunny skies. Paragliding Vancouver - winds aloft at 3000ft east to 9 km/hr becoming northwest to 11km/hr post 13:00. Fraser Valley winds east to 10km/hr in morning becoming west with arrival of seabreeze.  Paragliding in Seattle - winds aloft at 3000ft northeast to 15km/hr becoming north to 16km/hr post 13:00. Outflow likely to be overpowered by anabatic conditions and seabreeze by mid day. Should be a good day for intermediate Paragliding in Chilliwack, Pemberton and Bellingham. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Chilliwack paragliding: lapse rate -2.7C/1000ft: P4 Advanced. Wait for catabatic conditions and outflow to be overpowered by seabreeze. Woodside 12:00-19:00 for P3 intermediate to P4 advanced paraglider pilots. Dress warm as thermal climbs should be fast and furious today. Chances 80:20.

2. Paragliding Pemberton: lapse rate -2.4C/1000ft: intermediate P3 paraglider pilots. Wait for catabatic conditions to subside, snowshoe and paraglide Mackenzie post 12:00.  Dress warm as could be great smooth climbs today. Chances 80:20.     

3. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -2.0C/1000ft: novice P2.  Wait for catabatic conditions and outflow to be overpowered by seabreeze.  Watch for possible North wind leeside conditions. Blanchard 12:00-18:00 P3 intermediate paraglider pilots. Chances 60:40.

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