Top Gun Flight School

At iParaglide Top Gun Flight School, we take pride in having taught over 1900 paragliding students in our 26 years of operation.

We are the 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 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 recently 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 

Paragliding 

  


 

A paraglider is the latest evolution of recreational flying. Made of engineered fabric and lines, a paraglider fits in a backpack and is ready to launch in minutes. Harnessing the energy of the sun and the wind, the paraglider becomes a wing with which we can safely soar the sky for hours.


 


 If you've ever had the dream of flight, up with the birds, and free from all your earthly worries, we can make that dream come true quickly and safely with one of our entry level first flight paragliding courses. 


 

iParaglide Slope Soaring:

An optimized teaching method on the perfect slope to get you paragliding solo immediately on the fastest and safest progression. You will paraglide at low altitude just above the ground, leaving you feeling secure and empowered.


 

iParaglide iP1.5 Student:

We start with a half day classroom session of paragliding base theory.  This enables you to understand paragliding aerodynamics, basic airspace, regulatory bodies, weather, and how to launch, fly and land your paraglider. A written HPAC exam confirms your comprehension of the topics. 

We take you out for multiple low altitude flights at the ideal hill for Slope Soaring, as above, to work on and improve your launch and landing skills. Two half day sessions are included to get you comfortable and ready to safely enjoy and engage in your high mountain flights. 

Later, you take your first high mountain paragliding solo flight.  The flight is carefully supervised by two paragliding flight command instructors via ground-to-air radio. One instructor helps you set up and guides you at the mountain top launch for a beautiful, controlled take off.  A second instructor guides you in to an accurate landing in the valley at the landing zone (LZ).

 The instructors guide you through a progression of four mountain flights, orchestrating smooth coordinated turns on a pre-planned flight path.  The progression is designed to slowly wean you off the LZ instructor and complete the fourth flight path and landing approach on your own.   

As you gain experience and achieve pilot certification as an iP2 Pilot, you will learn to fly instructor free.  You will learn to soar dynamic wind and engage thermals to gain altitude and fly for hours, paragliding intimately with friends in the sky.

 

 

 

If you train and prepare extensively to become an iP3 Intermediate or iP4 Advanced ace pilot, you may gain a level of precision that empowers you to enter a whole new paradigm of flying...


Paragliding: The sky is your playground and you can go play with the birds!