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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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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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iParaglide Right Site Weather: August 18

DateSaturday, August 18, 2012 at 4:48

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton paragliding weather forecast. Mostly sunny skies due to high pressure. Vancouver Paragliding - valley winds light outflow becoming light inflow with 3000ft winds aloft light and variable becoming northwest to 33 km/hr post 11:00. Seattle Paragliding - valley winds light and variable becoming southwest to 15 km/hr as the day progresses with with 3000 ft winds light and variable becoming southwest to 21 km/hr post 16:00. OK day for paragliding early in Pemberton, Whistler, Chilliwack, Vancouver & Bellingham.  Watch for strong northwest winds aloft post 12:00 in Fraser Valley & Pemberton areas. Potential thunderstorms in Seattle, paragliding not recommended.     

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Pemberton Paragliding: lapse rate -2.4C/1000ft: intermediate P3 conditions. Mackenzie upper & lower 09:00-13:00 for P2 pilots.  P3 paragliders 13:00-20:00. Watch for northwest wind aloft and potential arrival of Whistler Express in afternoon. Chances 90:10 early, 60:40 late.

2. Whistler Paragliding: lapse rate -2.6C/1000ft: intermediate P4 paragliding. Watch for northwest wind aloft post 12:00. Whistler team paragliders only 09:00-20:00. Chances 90:10 early, 60:40 late.

3. Chilliwack Paragliding: lapse rate -1.8C/1000ft: P2 novice paragliding conditions. Woodside 09:00-12:00 with P3 intermediates 12:00-20:00.  Bridal 11:00-13:00 P2 novice paragliding with P3 intermediates 13:00-20:00. Watch for northwest wind post 12:00. Chances 90:10 early, 60:40 late. 

4. Vancouver Paragliding: lapse rate -1.5C/1000ft: P2 novice conditions. Grouse 10:00-20:00 P4 advanced Grouse Mountain Flying Team paragliding pilots only. Chances 90:10 early, 60:40 late.  

5. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -0.4C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding conditions. Blanchard 09:00-16:00 P2 novice paragliders. Then watch for increasing southwest wind. Chances 90:10.

6. Seattle Paragliding: lapse rate -0.7C/1000ft. Forecast lapse rate is low compared to anticipated localized actual. Forecast is for potential thunderstorms and OD! Mostly cloudy makes Seattle a "no fly" today. 

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