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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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We recently 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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May062012

iParaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather: May 6

DateSunday, May 6, 2012 at 4:20

Paragliding weather forecast for the Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler, Pemberton areas. High pressure brings sunny skies.  Vancouver Paragliding - 3000ft winds aloft light and variable, becoming northwest to 9 km/hr as the day progreses. Surface winds in the Fraser Valley east to 10 km/hr becoming west to 10 km/hr as the day progresses. Seattle Paragliding 3000ft winds aloft northeast to 10 km/hr throughout the day. Valley winds east to 10 km/hr becoming west  to northwest to 15 km/hr as the day progresses. Good day for paragliding wiht strong lapse rates and advanced conditions in Whistler and Chilliwack.   

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Vancouver Paragliding: lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft: P2 novice paragliders.  Grouse 10:00-20:00 P4 advanced GMFT pilots only. Chances 80:20.

2. Pemberton Paragliding: lapse rate -2.6/1000ft: P3 intermediate paragldier pilots. Mackenzie lower 09:00-12:00 & 18:00-20:00 P2 novice paragliders. P3 paragliding 12:00-18:00. Chances 80:20

3. Chilliwack paragliding: lapse rate: -3.0C/1000ft: P4 advanced. Woodside 09:00-12:00 & 18:00-20:00 P2 novice pilots, be mindfull of strong laspe rate. P4 advanced pilots 12:00-18:00. Chances 80:20.

4. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -1.7C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliders. Blanchard 10:00-13:00 & 16:00-20:00 P2 novice paragliders. 13:00-16:00 P3 intermediate paragliding. Wait for outflow to subside. Chances 80:20.  

5. Paragliding Seattle: lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding. Tiger 10:00-12:00 & 17:00-20:00 P2 novice paragliders.  12:00-17:00 P3 intermediate paragliding. Chances 70:30.

6. Whistler Paragliding: lapse rate: -3.5: XXX advanced P4 paragliding.  Whistler team paragliders only 09:00-18:00. Very strong lapse rate, be carefull. Chances 60:40.

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