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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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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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iparaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather Sep.4/10

DateSaturday, September 4, 2010 at 5:32

Synopsis: high pressure to west and low to east, meshing and yeilding high northwest winds and high lapse rate. NO PARAGLIDING ADVISORY. Do not paraglide in the Vancouver, Chilliwack or Pemberton areas. Paragliding in Bellingham area may be possible, but be careful of increasing north or west winds.       

Vancouver: Sunny to 20C. Lapse 3.0: Advanced.  West wind to 60 km/hr on ground and aloft.  NO PARAGLIDING WARNING. 

Chilliwack: a mix of sun and cloud to 20C. Lapse 3.0: Advanced. PARAGLIDER NO FLY WARNING.  Gusty Northwest wind to 50 km/hr in valley and loft combined with strong lapse rate, yielding gusty turbulent conditions with very strong lift. 

Pemberton: 30% POP.   Lapse 3.0: Advanced.  Whistler express will start early and be very strong due to unusual strong west inflow condition. PARAGLIDING WEATHER ADVISORY DO NOT FLY.    

Bellingham: sunny to 18C, Lapse 2.4: Intermediate. Blanchard is a possibility for P3 intermediate paragliding pilots wishing to escape the strong inflow in the Fraser Valley.  Although the winds aloft for Seattle look favorable, be mindful of the potential for sudden west or north wind increases through the day. 

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