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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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May202018

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 20

DateSunday, May 20, 2018 at 6:17

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast based on data available at 0500. 

Low with mostly cloudy skies and 40-60% POP in Vancouver, Whistler, Pemberton and Chilliwack areas. Partly sunny and 20% POP in Bellingham and Seattle. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable becoming SE to 11 km/hr post 1100.  Valley wind early outflow to 15 km/hr becoming SW to 10 km/hr with mid afternoon. Intermediate peak lapse rate -2.4C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable becoming N to 15 km/hr. Valley wind light and variable.  Advanced peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.5C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate.  Blanchard Mountain for P3 intermediate  pilots 1100-1900. Low altitude of launch and proximity to ocean means less influence from winds aloft and sea-breeze likely to overpower upper wind effects. Paragliding prospects 70%. 

Paragliding not recommended in Vancouver, Whistler, Pemberton and Chilliwack today due to 40-60% POP and and E outflow winds at 3000ft putting most sites in lee-side.

Paragliding not recommended in Seattle today  due to partly cloudy skies, 20% POP and N winds aloft at 3000 ft placing sites in lee-side. 

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