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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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Apr202019

iParaglide Right Site Weather Apr 20

DateSaturday, April 20, 2019 at 5:55

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area based on data available at 0600.

High pressure with clearing or mostly clear skies.  West inflow push with high arrival. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft NE to 19 km/hr becoming NW to 20 km/hr. Gusty valley inflow WNW to 35 km/hr near water in morning in Vancouver easing as day progresses. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft NNW to 24 km/hr easing as the day progresses. Valley winds NW to 23 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.7C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.5 C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate.  Blanchard with P3 conditions 1100-1700. Watch for possible N wind aloft and rough conditions. Paragliding prospects 70%.  

2. Paragliding Seattle: -2.7C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Do not fly early due to strong N wind aloft and leeside conditions.  Possible window late as N wind aloft subsides. P4 pilots only with rough spring conditions. Tiger with P4 conditions 1400-1700. Chances to paraglide 50%.

3. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Possible narrow window before N wind aloft picks up. Grouse for GMFT P4 advanced pilots 1100-1500. 40% paragliding chances.

4. Paragliding Chilliwack: -3.0C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. NW wind aloft developing strong gusty conditions combined with shredded strong thermals.  XXX conditions 1100-1600 Bridal. 30% paragliding prospects. 

5. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.4C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Strong spring conditions with strong NW wind aloft developing rough conditions. McKenzie with P4 conditions 1100-1700.  30% chances to paraglide. 

6. Paragliding Whistler: -2.8C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Too rough conditions anticipated with strong NW wind in afternoon.  Paraglidng not recommended in Whistler today. 

 

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