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 

1-Day Paragliding Cross Country (XC) Seminar ($297) 

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The next progression towards safe paragliding cross country (XC) flying is to learn to link thermals to "bench up" high enough above the launch summit to make a safe glide, "track" or "jump!" to the next summit.  A safe glide is defined as maintaining a Plan B (and a Plan C!) retreat to the launch summit, or a safe glide to an alternate landing zone (LZ), if a thermal is not found along the intended XC track.  Repeatedly benching up above a summit, maintaining a Plan B & C retreat corridor and LZ, before gliding to the next summit is the foundation for commencing extensive cross country flights.  

Our 1-day Cross Country Seminar will be comprised of the following components:

 

  • Air-to-Air Radio Supervision and guidance during first paragliding Cross-Country Flights.
  • Study of intermediate level paragliding instrumentation designed to assist you with your cross-country flying.  
  • Depending on pilots weight and experience, it may be possible to arrange flights on iParaglide intermediate to advanced level paragliders & harnesses (with use fee and damage deposit).

 

 

1-Day Paragliding Cross Country Seminar: $297*

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*Price includes theory on how to cross country and air-to-air supervised cross country flight. Rides up the mountain and for retrieval paid extra and separately to the driver.