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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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
Jul282011

Swiss Paraglider Christian Maurer victorious in Red Bull X-Alps

 

Red Bull X-Alps Update July 28/11, 14:00: crossing the alps in the ultimate paragliding and mountaineering adventure race. Swiss paragliding pilot Christian Maurer finished first today in an outstanding 11 days 4 hours and 22 minutes! Watch the video of Christian earn victory here. 

Paraglider pilot Toma Coconea of Romania is still climbing mountains in the dark, in second, 171 km out. Meanwhile, Austrian paraglider Paul Guschlbauer sleeps only 8 km behind.

Europe is 9 hours ahead, so most of the paragliding athletes are sleeping now, while some climb through the night, vying for position. Tommorrow should be an epic battle with paragliding weather forecast to improve for those that have passed Mont Blanc and are on the last 225 km of the race course.

 

 

 

The race will officially close 16:22 Sat. July 30, so the remaining athletes have only 48 hours to improve their paragliding position, make it to Monaco, or not! Follow the paragliding competition action, live with realtime GPS tracking here.          

Reader Comments (1)

Following this race has been a real eye-opener for sure. To see what the top pilots in the world are doing is amazing and seeing the limits of what is possible in a paragliding cross country trip just blew me away. Not to mention that I think this is the first time that I've ever seen my partner not only interested in a sporting event but actively following it daily!

Only thing missing from this was more Canadian representatives! I know there are more out there than just Max Fandrel!

August 4, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterRussell Smalley

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