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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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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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iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather Dec.30/10

DateThursday, December 30, 2010 at 10:00

Paragliding Weather Synopsis.  High pressure brings sunny skies and reduced winds. Winds aloft forecast at YVR through to 22:00 as light and variable at 3000 ft. Seattle winds aloft through 19:00 forecast as north at 16 km/hr.  Wait for winter outflow and catabatic conditions to subside and sufficient solar heating time on slopes for anabatic conditions to establish. Hike and/or snowshoe and paraglide 13:00.  

Vancouver: Lapse 2.0. Grouse seasonally closed to paragliding for winter.  GMFT members only.    

Chilliwack: Lapse 2.0. P2 Paraglider pilots Woodside 13:00-15:00. Expect to hike/snowshoe most of the way up. Watch for north wind.       

Pemberton: Lapse 0.5. Lower Mackenzie for P2 paragliding pilots 13:00-15:00. Snowshoe and paraglide.

Bellingham: Lapse 1.9. Blanchard 13:00-15:00. Drive to first hump park and hike a short distance (7 minutes). Best bet for P2-P4 paraglider pilots.  Low altitude means less snow, if any, on the road.   Watch for north wind. 

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