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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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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.

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Right Site Weather: Aug 12

DateSunday, August 12, 2018 at 13:14

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast based on data available at 0900.

High pressure arrival with transitioning skies with mostly cloudy to rainy conditions, clearing late in the day. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable.  Valley wind outflow E to 15 km/hr becoming W inflow to 5 km/hr late in day with sea-breeze arrival. Novice peak lapse rate -2.2C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable becoming N to 17 km/hr.  Valley winds light and variable. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.0C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard Mountain often has a blue hole when metro Vancouver is under cloud.  Blanchard for P2 pilots 0900-1900.  Paragliding prospects 70%. 

2. Paragliding Seattle: -2.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Cloudy skies transitioning to sunny mid afternoon. Tiger for P3 intermediate pilots 1200-1500, then watch for possible increasing north wind aloft mid afternoon leading to lee side conditions and shutting things down. Paraglidng prospects 60% early, not recommended late afternoon.

Paragliding is not recommended in Chilliwack today due to 60% POP and low cloud base at 2000ft. Pemberton and Whistler at 40% POP and unlikely to open up until too late in day, paragliding not recommended. Vancouver mountains also in cloud for bulk of the day, paragliding, not recommended. 

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