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 

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Thursday
Dec302010

iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather Widgets and Blog

Holiday greetings from iParaglide, 

As a resource to help paragliding pilots decide if its a good day to paraglide or not, we post detailed paragliding weather information as iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather blogs every Saturday and Sunday rain or shine. We do this by 05:00 when days are longest in the summer and move to 09:00 off-season. 

In addition, we post mid week if it looks at all flyable. If we don't post mid week, its because it is obviously not flyable!Very Happy 

We do this for all paragliding areas within a 2.5 hour radius of Vancouver: Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton and Bellingham in order that pilots can chose the best and safest location to fly. 

You can find a link on our home page in the top right hand corner of the page on the right hand column of widgets under the Paragliding News Widget under iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather (Date)

We have a separate blog page setup for iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather (Date). You can track historical paragliding weather patterns over the year this way.

For your own detailed paragliding weather analysis you can go to the home page and on the right hand column containing widgets, scroll down to widget 7 & 8. Here you will see the widgets Paragliding Webcams and Paragliding Weather Tools. Here you can access the exact tools we use to make our paragliding forecasts. Click on the links sequentially from top to bottom and you will follow a logical progression that will help you see the paragliding weather for the day. iParaglide P1-P4 paragliding pilots are expected to use these weather tools daily, as part of their homework and becoming true pilots, before coming out and briefing the instructor team prior to flying. In this way students are prepared and learn to assess paragliding weather on their own for when they graduate from the P2 program. If you are not an iParaglide P1 - P4 pilot, but are interested, and have never done this before, please take the time to try it and ask us any questions by contacting us at 604-681-4459 or use our contact form.  

Understanding how to asses weather is paramount to your safety, performance and enjoyment of paragliding. You can access the iParaglide home page widgets Paragliding Webcams and Paragliding Weather Tools by scrolling to bottom right of screen, in the widget column. 

Have a great New Year!

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