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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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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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Aug052019

iParaglide Right Site Weather Aug 05

DateMonday, August 5, 2019 at 4:56

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

High pressure brings sunny skies.  

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable.  Valley flow E outflow to 10 km/hr becoming west inflow to 10 km/hr by mid morning. Novice peak lapse rate -2.0C/1000ft.  

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft NNE to 13km/hr. Valley winds winds light and variable becoming NW to 11km/hr. Novice peak lapse rate -2.2C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Pemberton: -3.0C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Great day for Pemberton with light and variable winds aloft making XC in any direction possible.  Mt McKenzie with P2 novice conditions 0800-1300 and 1800-2000 with P4 advanced conditions 1300-1800. 90% chances to paraglide. 

2. Paragliding Chilliwack: -3.0C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Forecast lapse rate inferred higher than actual with several days of high pressure creating increased stability. Light and variable wind aloft making Woodside and especially Bridal good choices.  Bridal should be on today creating anabatic lift along entire ridge line. Bridal: Watch for P3 novice conditions 1000-1400 and 1800-200 with P3 intermediate conditions 1400-1800.  Woodside with P2 conditions 0800-1400 and 1800-2000 with P3 conditions 1400-1800. Paragliding chances 90%. 

3. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.0C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Grouse for GMFT P4 advanced pilots 1000-2000. 90% paragliding chances.  

4. Paragliding Bellingham: -1.8C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Blanchard's proximity to ocean and low altitude makes for sea-breeze overpowering NNE wind aloft. Blanchard for P2 pilots 0900-2000 Paragliding prospects 80%.

5. Paragliding Whistler: -3.2C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate.  Light and varible winds aloft with strong thermals. Whistler Team P4 pilots 0900-2000. 80% chances for paragliding.

6. Paragliding Seattle: -2.2C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Light NNE wind aloft placing Tiger in mild lee side today. Watch for P3 intermediate conditions, chances to fly 70%.

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