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.

Top Gun References

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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iParaglide Location

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.

iParaglide Flying Sites

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.

Right Stuff Equipment

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.

Paragliding Webcams/Wind Stations

Vancouver Paragliding Webcams - get a view of cloud base to plan your paragliding cross country flight adventure.

Woodside Mtn Webcam

Woodside Wind Station

Bridal Webcam

Bridal Wind Station

Chilliwack Webcam

Hope Webcam 

Pemberton Webcam

Tsawwassen Webcam

Bellingham Bay Webcam

Tiger Mtn Webcam 

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Right Site Paragliding Weather: Jun 07, 2020

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

Low to SW brings instability, 30-100% POP, with increasing W wind to blown out conditions by 1200 in Chilliwack and blown out by 1400 in Pemberton, Vancouver, Seattle and Bellingham.  Squamish Whistler/Pemberton and Bellingham/Seattle also with potential for thunderstorm in early afternoon. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft NW to 20 km/hr and increasing and becoming WNW to 44 km/hr. Valley flow with early inflow W wind indicating an increase to blown out conditions to 30 km/hr by mid afternoon. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.9C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable increasing and becoming SW to 20 km/hr. Valley winds SW to 20 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.9C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

PARAGLIDING PILOTS ADVISORY: With neighboring low bringing instability, 30-100% POP, blown out conditions at most sites by 1200 and the possibility of thunderstorm in Squamish/Whistler/Pemberton and Bellingham/Seattle: do not paraglide in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Bellingham or Seattle today. 

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