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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.

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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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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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iParaglide - HPAC Instructor Certification Seminar - Itinerary Oct.2,3,9

DateWednesday, September 29, 2010 at 17:50 AuthorDion Vuk

Requirements for Paragliding Instructor Rating.

Please bring any items you already have. Others you can acquire at a later date.

  •  Log book - photocopy of last page with total paragliding flights and air hours
  • HPAC Intermediate Paragliding Rating: 25 hours, 150 flights, 10 sites
  • HPAC paragliding membership card
  • Transport Canada HAGAR Exam Results Photocopy
  • Standard First Aid Certificate
  • Assist a Paragliding Instructor 25 hours
  • Paragliding Instructor Certification Seminar 24 hours
  • Paragliding Reserve Seminar: HPAC recommended, iParaglide required
  • Paragliding SIV Simulation of Flight Incidents Seminar: iParaglide required
  • Paragliding XC Seminar: iParaglide required

 Oct.2, 2010

07:00-07:30: Paragliding Course Overview & Administrative

07:30-09:00: Paragliding Mentoring Theory 1

09:00-09:15: Break/Review

09:15-10:45: Paragliding Mentoring Theory 2

10:45-11:00: Break/Review

11:00-12:30: Paragliding Mentoring Theory 3

12:30-13:00: Lunch

13:00-14:30: Paragliding Reverse Launch Student Training Practicum: Vanier

14:30-14:45: Break/Review

14:45-16:15: Paragliding Forward Launch Student Training Practicum: Vanier

16:15-16:30: Review

Oct. 3, 2010

07:00-08:30: Paragliding Content Theory

08:30-08:45: Break/Review

08:45-10:15: Paragliding Operations Theory

10:15-10:30: Break/Review

10:30-12:00: Paragliding Practicum Lecture Presentations

12:00-12:30: Lunch

12:30-14:00: Paragliding Instructor Seminar Synthesis: Mentoring, Content, Operations

Oct. 9, 2010

10:00-17:30 Paragliding Mountain Flying Student Training Practicum: Woodside

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