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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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iParaglide Right Site Weather: Aug 04

DateSaturday, August 4, 2018 at 4:43

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

High pressure arrival with clearing skies. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable, becoming N to 24 km/hr mid afternoon.  Valley wind light outflow E to 10 km/hr becoming W inflow to 10 km/hr with sea-breeze arrival. Novice peak lapse rate -2.1C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft NNE to 17 km/hr becoming NNW to 13 km/hr mid afternoon. Valley winds ESE to to km/hr becoming light and variable.  Intermediate peak lapse rate -2.4C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.4C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate.  Winds aloft at 3000ft light and variable early and becoming NW to 24 km/hr make fore easy conditions early and rough conditions mid afternoon. Mt. McKenzie for P2 pilots early 0900-1300 then watch for increasing NW winds aloft making conditions rough P4 advanced to un-flyable conditions for the rest of the day. Paragliding chances 90% early, 50% late. 

2. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.1C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Woodside for P2 pilots 0800-1200 then watch for switch to NW wind aloft and possible rough crosswind P4 conditions.  Bridal should be on today 1100-1400 for P2 pilots and then developing NW wind aloft should yield good soaring prospects for P3 intermediate pilots 1400-2000.  Chances to paraglide 90% early, 80% late. 

3. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.1C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard Mountain may be below wind aloft influence, but watch for possible light lee-side conditions.  P3 intermediate pilots 1000-1900.  Paragliding prospects 70%. 

4. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.1C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Grouse for GMFT P4 advanced pilots 1000-1400 then watch for increasing NW wind aloft and psossible rough conditions. 90% paragliding chances early, 60% late.  

5. Paragliding Whistler: -2.9C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Winds aloft at 3000ft light and variable early and becoming NW to 24 km/hr make for easy conditions early and rough conditions mid afternoon. Whistler team P4 advanced pilots 0900-1900. Paragliding chances 90% early, 50% late.

6. Paragliding Seattle: -2.4C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  North wind aloft places Tiger in lee-side today. Paragliding not recommended. 

 

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