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Top Gun Flight School

At iParaglide Top Gun Flight School, we take pride in having taught over 2,000 paragliding students in our 27 years of operation.

 

We are 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 creating 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 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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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.

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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.

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Vancouver Zoo & Paragliding Bridal Falls

DateFriday, January 31, 2014 at 18:48 AuthorDegas Levesque

I now have this photo on my wall at home and love to be reminded that the air we share with the locals, while flying our paragliders, is a blissful thing.

I really enjoyed my visit to the Vancouver Zoo last summer as I looked eye to eye with the various birds there. They are the naturals at finding thermals! They don't have to work and make money to take care of life expenses. They don't have to watch the weather on the internet looking for a good day to drive to Woodside, Bridal or Pemberton... no... all they have to do is fly.

I am so enlightened to put my paraglider in the vehicle and do the drive out to the sites. I love the idea that when I wake up in the morning of a good flying day, jump in the shower, grab some food, do a final check on the weather and head out, that I know that I will again experience something that most could only dream about a short 30 years ago. I guess that some day I will have enough money to not worry about bills and all that stuff... and all I will do is JUST FLY.

Here is a video I made of Paragliding Bridal Falls, that captures some of that spirit. Enjoy.

 

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