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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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iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather: May 26

DateSaturday, May 26, 2012 at 6:22

Paragliding weather forecasts for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler, Pemberton area. High pressure and sunny skies. Vancouver Paragliding - 3000 ft winds aloft light and viarable to 11:00 becoming west to 37 km/hr through 22:00.  Valley winds east outlfow to 10 km/hr becoming inflow to 10 km/hr as the day progresses. Seattle Paragliding - 3000ft winds aloft northeast to 13 km/hr becoming light and variable light and variable post 16:00. Valley winds east to 5 km/hr becoming west to 10 km/hr as the day progresses. Great day for paragliding in Seattle & Pemberton.  

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Seattle Paragliding: lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft: P4 advanced paraglider pilots. Tiger Mtn. 09:00-12:00 & 18:00-21:00 P2 novice paragliders.  12:00-18:00 P4 advanced paragliding. Sunny skies and nice lapse rate, should be epic. Chances 90:10. 

2. Pemberton Paragliding: lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft: P3 intermediate paragliding. Lower Mackenzie 09:00-11:00 & 17:00-20:00 P2 novice paragliders. P3 intermediate paragliding 12:00-17:00. Watch for possible Whistler Express arrival due to west wind aloft increasing through the day. Chances 90:10.

3. Whistler Paragliding: lapse rate: -3.3C/1000ft: advanced P4 paragliding. Whistler team paragliders only 09:00-21:00. Strong lapse rate, for an epic day: careful out there. Chances 90:10.

4. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -2.6C/1000ft: intermediate P3 paragliders. Blanchard 10:00-13:00 & 17:00-20:00 P2 novice paragliders. 13:00-17:00 P3 intermediate paragliding. Wait for outflow and anabatic conditons to subside and seabreeze to establish. Great day for Blanchard with a descent lapse rate. Chances 80:20.

5. Vancouver Paragliding: lapse rate -2.2C/1000ft: P2 novice paragliders.  Grouse 10:00-20:00 P4 advanced GMFT pilots only. Watch for increasing west wind aloft as day progresses. Chances 80:20.

6. Chiliwack Paragliding: lapse rate -3.0C/1000ft: advanced P4 paragliding pilots. Watch for possible strong west winds late afternoon to early evening.  P4 advanced pilots 11:00-20:00. Chances 70:30.

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