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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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Jul142019

iParaglide Right Site Weather Jul 14

DateSunday, July 14, 2019 at 4:58

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

Mild low pressure aloft with partly cloudy skies becoming sunny in afternoon in Vancouver and Chilliwack. Mostly sunny in Seattle and Bellingham. Whistler and Pemberton becoming more cloudy in afternoon with 30% POP. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Valley flow light east outflow to 10 km/hr becoming inflow to 5 km/hr by mid day. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.7C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable.  Valley winds W  to 10 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -3.1C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: -3.1C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Great day for Tiger with light and variable winds aloft and strong lapse rate.  P2 novice pilots 0800-1200 and 1800-2100 with P4 advanced conditions 1200-1800. 90% chances to paraglide.  

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.6 C/1000ft Intermediate peak lapse rate. Blanchard for P2 pilots 0800-1400 and 1500-2000 with P3 intermediate conditions 1400-1700. Paragliding prospects 90%.

3. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.7C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Wait for summit to clear cloud. Grouse for GMFT P4 advanced pilots 1100-2000. 70% paragliding chances.

4. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.7C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Wait for early cloud to dissipate. Woodside for novice P2 pilots 1000-1300 and 1800-2100. Watch for increasing strong thermals if sun breaks through with advanced P4 conditions 1300-1800.  Bridal should be good today with light and variable winds aloft allowing for anabatic conditions to develop along the ridge line and strong thermal climbs.  P2 pilots 1100-1300 and 1800-2100 with advanced P4 conditions 1300-1800. 70% paragliding chances. 

5. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.6C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Wait for summits to clear cloud. Pemberton with light and variable wind aloft allowing for XC in any direction, however watch for 30% POP and possibility of showers mid afternoon. Mt. McKenzie with P2 conditions 0900-1400 then watch for P3 intermediate conditions.  60% chances to paraglide early, with progressively decreasing chances and possibility of showers in afternoon. 

6. Paragliding Whistler: -2.8C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Wait for summits to clear cloud. Whistler with light and variable wind aloft allowing for XC in any direction, however watch for 30% POP and possibility of showers mid afternoon. Whistler Team P4 pilots 0900-1100 then watch for increasing chances of showers. 60% chances to paraglide early, with progressively decreasing chances and possibility of showers in afternoon.

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