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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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Apr072011

iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather Apr.7/11

DateThursday, April 7, 2011 at 9:57

Paragliding Weather synopsis.  High pressure building to west causing north winds aloft and mixed conditions. Vancouver paragliding: winds aloft at 3000 ft forecast to 13:00 as NNW to 15 km/hr increasing to 26 km/hr through 22:00. Seattle paragliding: winds aloft at 3000 ft north and increasing to 27 km/hr post 13:00. Ground stations in Bellingham & Seattle calling for northwest to north winds to 16 km/hr.  iParaglide Right Site Ranking: north winds aloft place most sites in lee, combined with low cloudbase and 40% POP.  Wait to paraglide until tomorrow for high to fully arrive/establish. Kiting your paraglider at Vanier should be great 13:00 on.

1. Paragliding Vancouver: mountain flights not recommended due to north wind aloft.  Kiting your paraglider at Vanier Park should be great due to west surface wind and sunny day.  Good opportunity to start getting warmed up for the new paragliding season.

2. Paragliding Chilliwack: lapse -2.7C/1000ft.  Advanced P4 paraglider pilots may watch the chilliwack webcam for a blue hole: less than 50% chance of this.   If it opens up, Bridal should be epic with a strong lapse rate and north wind making the entire ridge line soarable.  Other Chilliwack sites in lee and not recommended today.   

3. Paragliding Bellingham not recommended today. 

4. Paragliding Seattle not recommended today. 

5. Paragliding Pemberton not recommended today. 

6. Paragliding Whistler not recommended today.

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