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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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iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather Apr.6, 2012

DateFriday, April 6, 2012 at 7:47

Vancouver & Seattle Paragliding weather forecast. Mild high pressure establishing brings mixed skies and 30% POP throughout. Vancouver Paragliding - 3000ft winds aloft light and variable through 22:00. Fraser Valley winds west to 10km/hr with arrival of seabreeze.  Seattle Paragliding - 3000ft winds aloft southwest to 14km/hr through 22:00. A marginal day with 30% POP, but could improve if it clears up, for paragliding in Bellingham, Chilliwack & Pemberton.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -2.7C/1000ft: intermediate P3. Blanchard 11:00-18:00 P3 intermediate paraglider pilots. Chances 70:30.

2. Chilliwack paragliding: lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft: P4 Advanced. Conditions will be good only if peak clears of cloud today. Wait for catabatic conditions and outflow to be overpowered by seabreeze. Woodside 14:00-19:00 for P3 intermediate paraglider pilots. Dress warm as lapse rate will be high if blue holes develop. Chances 50:50.

3. Paragliding Pemberton: lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft: intermediate P3 paraglider pilots. Watch for clearing. Wait for catabatic conditions to subside, snowshoe and paraglide Mackenzie post 12:00. Chances 40:60. 

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