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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 Jun 30

DateSunday, June 30, 2019 at 9:04

Paragliding Weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas, based on data available at 0500.

High pressure with mostly clear skies.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Valley flow light east outflow to 5 km/hr becoming inflow to 15 km/hr by mid day. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft North to 17 km/hr. Valley winds light and variable and increasing to NNW to 16 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Chilliwack: -3.2C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Woodside for novice P2 pilots 0700-1200 and 1800-2100 with conditions becoming advanced 1200-1800 with strong thermals.  Bridal should be great today with light and variable winds aloft allowing for anabatic conditions to develop along the ridge line and strong thermal climbs.  P2 pilots 1000-1300 and 1800-2100 with advanced P4 conditions 1300-1800. 90% paragliding chances. 

2. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Grouse for GMFT P4 advanced pilots 1000-2100. 90% paragliding chances.

3. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.7 C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Blanchard may be below N wind aloft influence with sea breeze dictating flows. Notwithstanding, watch for possible rough P4 advanced conditions 1100-1800. Paragliding prospects 70% for advanced pilots. 

4. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.8C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Pemberton with light and variable wind aloft allowing for XC in any direction, however watch for possible over development in afternoon with 30% POP and possibility of thunderstorms.  Mt. McKenzie with P2 conditions 0900-1200 then watch for increasing P4 advanced conditions.  80% chances to paraglide early, with progressively decreasing chances and possibility of thunderstorm in afternoon. 

5. Paragliding Whistler: -3.0C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Watch for possible over development in afternoon with 30% POP and possibility of thunderstorms. Whistler Team P4 pilots 0900-1400, then watch for overdeveloped conditions. Chances to paraglide 70% early, with progressively decreasing chances and possibility of thunderstorm in afternoon. 

6. Paragliding Seattle: -2.8C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. North wind aloft placing Tiger in lee side, combined with strong lapse rate making for rough conditions. Paragliding not recommended today. 

 

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