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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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iparaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather Dec.31/10

DateFriday, December 31, 2010 at 9:14

Wishing all paraglider pilots a prosperous New Year!  

Paragliding Weather Synopsis.  High pressure brings sunny skies. YVR winds aloft at 3000ft forecast through to 22:00 as southeast at 15km/hr. Seattle winds aloft at 3000ft through 22:00 forecast as east at 10 km/hr. Strong outflow established in valleys.  Anticipate outflow and catabatic conditions to prevail. 

Vancouver: Lapse 1.5. Grouse seasonally closed to paragliding for winter.  GMFT members only.    

Chilliwack: Lapse 1.5. Expect leeside conditions at Woodside, paragliding not recommended.        

Pemberton: Lapse 0.2. Expect leeside and catabatic conditions most sites, paragliding not recommended. 

Bellingham: Lapse 2.0. Blanchard may work today due to proximity to ocean and sea breeze reducing outflow. 13:00-15:00. Drive to first hump, stop and walk ahead to check for ice in depression, if so, park before that section of road. Hike the short distance (7 minutes) to launch.   Best bet for P2-P4 paraglider pilots.  Low altitude means less snow, if any, on the road.   Watch for east wind. 

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