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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: Jul 14

DateSaturday, July 14, 2018 at 5:46

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

High pressure with clear skies.  

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light E to 22 km/hr in morning becoming light and variable mid afternoon. Valley wind NW to 30 km/hr in morning easing to 10 km/hr mid afternoon. Novice peak lapse rate -1.9C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft NE 17 km/hr increasing to 22 km/hr. Valley wind NNW to 15 km/hr becoming gusty to 30 km/hr in afternoon. Intermediate peak lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Bellingham Paragliding: -1.7C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard Mountain may be below winds aloft influence.  Watch for possible lee-side conditions, in which case don't fly. Blanchard for P3 pilots 1000-2000. Paragliding prospects 70%. 

2. Paragliding Vancouver: -1.9C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Wait for east wind aloft to subside. Grouse for GMFT P4 advanced pilots 1300-2100. 70% paragliding chances. 

3. Pemberton Paragliding: -3.1C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Watch for lee-side conditions due to E wind aloft early then change to light and variable winds aloft mid afternoon.  Mt. Mckenzie with very strong conditions for P4 advanced pilots only 1300-1900 with conditions mellowing late in the day for P2 pilots 1900-2100.  70% paragliding prospects. 

4. Whistler Paragliding: -3.3C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Watch for lee-side conditions due to E wind aloft early then change to light and variable winds aloft mid afternoon. Watch for very strong and rough conditions at peak. Whistler team P4 advanced pilots 1300-2000. 60% chances to paraglide.

5. Paragliding Chilliwack: -3.1C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Outflow aloft in morning places all sites in lee-side, do not fly.  Mid afternoon winds aloft forecast to light and variable. Strong conditions for P4 advanced pilots only 1400-1900 then conditions easing to P2 1900-2100.  Chances to paraglide 50%.

6. Paragliding Seattle: -2.5C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate.  Tiger in lee-side today. Paragliding not recommended.

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