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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Friday
Oct152010

G: Icaro Instinct XS Acro Paraglider:  Aerobatic

Acro for non-professionals? With Instinct XS Acro: no utopia. With no other paraglider you can learn SAT, Wing Over, Mc Twist and stall so safe, fast and controlled. With some training, even Helicopter and Tumbling are possible.

Everything with the felt safety of class LTF 1/1-2 and with "Breitenerprobung". Instinct XS Acro itself is not homologated, however, it has been put through the paces by Icaro. It is identical in construction with the homologated version Instinct XS except two key differences:

  • it is reinforced for heavy loads while doing aerobatic manoeuvres and the entire canopy is of normal strength sailcloth, not a lighter material like the Instinct XS.
  • it has a slightly bigger area than homologated Instinct XS.

What makes the Instinct XS Acro unique:

It is agile and dynamic. Especially on weight shift, it reacts immediately.

Never the less, it has long steering ways typical for gliders class LTF 1/1-2 which protect against inadvertent stalling.

It is extremely mistake-forgiving and therefore perfect for learning paragliding freestyle & aerobatics. With it you can coach your reflexes and train the manoeuvres calmly without demanding too much of yourself.

It is above all extremely easy in spin / negative and thus makes it easier to learn the Helicopter.

SIV coaches lend the Instinct XS Acro with pleasure to participants to fly their first full stalls, because it is simple to fly precisely, and in the case of a mistake, easy to control.

Instinct XS Acro Manual 

Instinct XS Acro Line Plan