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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 Weather Sep.30

DateSunday, September 30, 2012 at 9:35

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas. Mixed skies due to localized high pressure.  Paragliding Vancouver: east outflow valley winds in morning becoming light inflow as the day progresses.  Winds aloft light and variable becoming northwest to 19 km/hr. Paragliding Seattle: valley winds northeast to 16 km/hr becoming north to 16 km/hr, with winds aloft at 3000ft north 31 km/hr reducing to 23 km/hr. Wait for anabatic & seabreeze flow to establish, then OK day for paragliding late in Pemberton & Chilliwack.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Pemberton Paragliding: lapse rate -1.8C/1000ft: novice P2 conditions. Mackenzie upper & lower 13:00-18:00 for P2 paraglider pilots. Chances 70:30. Wait for anabatic flow to establish, watch for northwest wind late.

2. Whistler Paragliding: lapse rate -2.0C/1000ft: advanced P2 paragliding. Whistler team paragliders only 13:00-18:00. Chances 70:30. Wait for anabatic flow.

3. Chilliwack Paragliding: lapse rate -2.0C/1000ft: P2 novice paragliding conditions. Wait for anabatic flow.  P2 pilots 11:00-14:00 then watch for increasing northwest wind and P3 intermediate paragliding conditions. Chances 70:30.

4. Paragliding Vancouver: lapse rate -1.7C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding conditions. Grouse Team flying members only 12:00-18:00. Wait for anabatic conditions. Chances 60:40

5. Paragliding  Seattle: lapse rate -1.0C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding conditions but strong north wind makes for P3 to P4 conditions. Tiger 11:00-18:00. Watch for strong north wind aloft. Chances 50:50.

6. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -0.8C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding lapse rate but strong north wind places Blanchard in leeside.  Do not fly.

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