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.

Top Gun References

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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iParaglide Location

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.

Paragliding Webcams/Wind Stations

Vancouver Paragliding Webcams - get a view of cloud base to plan your paragliding cross country flight adventure.

Woodside Mtn Webcam

Woodside Wind Station

Bridal Webcam

Bridal Wind Station

Chilliwack Webcam

Hope Webcam 

Pemberton Webcam

Tsawwassen Webcam

Bellingham Bay Webcam

Tiger Mtn Webcam 

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Jul282014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: July 28

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area weather forecast for paraglider pilots. Ongoing high pressure brings stability and sunny skies. Paragliding Vancouver - valley flow light east becoming west to 10 km/hr, with 3000ft winds light and variable and becoming northwest to 11 km/hr. Paragliding Seattle - north valley winds increasing to 15 km/hr, with 3000ft winds northeast to 18 km/hr.  

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Pemberton Paragliding: -2.6C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate.  Mackenzie 08:00-13:00 and 18:00-21:00 for P2 pilots, P3 pilots 13:00-18:00.  90:10 paragliding prospects. Another good day for smooth XC in Pemberton.  

2. Chilliwack Paragliding: -2.5C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate. Woodside for P2 pilots 07:00-13:00 and 17:00-21:00.  P3 paragliding conditions 13:00-17:00. Bridal P2s 10:00-13:00 and 18:00-21:00 with P3 conditions 13:00-18:00.  Another good day for Bridal with 3000 ft winds light and variable early and becoming light northwest.  Flying chances 90:10. 

3. Seattle Paragliding: -1.7C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. P2 pilots 08:00-21:00 at
Tiger.  Chances to paraglide 90:10.

4. Vancouver Paragliding: - 1.7C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. GMFT members 09:00-21:00 at Grouse.  90:10 paragliding prospects.   

5. Bellingham Paragliding: -1.3C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. 08:00-21:00 at Blanchard for P2 pilots. Chances to paraglide 90:10.

6. Whistler Paragliding: -2.8C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  08:00-21:00 at Whistler/Blackcomb  for the Whistler flying team. 80:20  chances to paraglide. 

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