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Top Gun Flight School

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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We 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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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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Apr222012

iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather: April 22

DateSunday, April 22, 2012 at 7:10

Paragliding weather forecast for the Vancouver/Chilliwack/Bellingham/Seattle/Whistler/Pemberton areas. Transitioning pressure brings mixed skies.  Vancouver Paragliding - 3000ft winds aloft east to 9 km/hr.  Surface winds in the Fraser Valley light east and becoming light west as the day progresses. Seattle Paragliding 3000ft winds aloft light and variable. Good day for paragliding at Blanchard & Tiger: marginal elsewhere due to 40% POP and outflow aloft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -1.6C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding. Blanchard 11:00-18:00, wait for anabatic conditons to establish. Chances 90:10.  

2. Paragliding Seattle: lapse rate -2.0C/1000ft: novice paragliding. Tiger 12:00-18:00, wait for anatabic flow. Chances 90:10. 

3. Paragliding Chilliwack: lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliders. Watch for leeside. Woodside 12:00-18:00, wait for catabatic to overpower outflow, chances 30:70.

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