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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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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: May 23

DateSaturday, May 23, 2015 at 4:42

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas, based on data available at 05:00.

Mixed skies clearing as day progresses. Lots of moisture delivery from past couple of days, combined with low pressure trough aloft yields instability and possiblity of thunderstorm in valleys in afternoon. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft east to 17 km/hr becoming light and variable. Lapse rate -1.8C/1000ft: novice

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Lapse rate -1.5C/1000ft: novice.

Forecast lapse rate is suspect of being low compared to actual.  If blue holes develop, it will get unstable with possibility of over development and thunderstorms in afternoon in Chilliwack (30% POP) , Whistler & Pemberton (60% POP) making paragliding not recommended there today.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Bellingham Paragliding: -1.2C/1000ft novice lapse rate. P2 paraglider pilots at Blanchard 11:00-19:00. Bellingham forecast calling for clearing skies in afternoon. Chances to fly 80%.

2. Seattle Paragliding: -1.5 C/1000ft novice lapse rate.  Sunny skies with no risk of OD.  Great day for Tiger with P2 conditions 09:00-12:00 and 18:00-20:00  with P3 conditions 12:00-18:00. Chances for paragliding 80%.

3. Vancouver Paragliding: - 1.8 C/1000ft  novice lapse rate. Watch for cloud to clear summit and potntial for OD late.  GMFT advanced P4 piltos at Grouse 10:00-19:00. 70% paragliding prospects. 

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