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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.

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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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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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May132015

Taking Flight with the iP2 Course

DateWednesday, May 13, 2015 at 21:15 AuthorJohn Rowsom

Scott running out a clean forward launch in perfect conditions, underneath his crisp new ICARO Instinct TE paraglider!

It feels so good to fly!

The last couple weekends have gifted us with exceptional weather and it finally came time to launch our brand new paragliding wings off Mt. Woodside!

My first paragliding mountain flights felt almost too good to be true. I'm sure the rest of the group must have felt the same. I felt more than ready when it was go time. After the theory classes, a solid training hill experience at Diefenbaker Park and kiting the paragliders at Vanier Park the day prior, we had definitely acquired the skills to go for it.

Dion and our instructors, Russ and Degas, have it dialed in! Every aspect of what they have taught us and put us through, has been really solid. From launch to landing, confidence was high knowing the amount of experience and structure that is behind every decision made prior, and every word we hear on the radios during flight.

So stoked for the good times to come!

 

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