Top Gun Flight School

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.

Top Gun References

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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iParaglide Location

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.

iParaglide Flying Sites

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.

Right Stuff Equipment

We regularly test fly the latest paragliding gear and select only the very finest for our iParaglide Right Stuff Paragliding Equipment Store. This ensures our paraglider pilots enjoy a state of the art performance and safety advantage to accelerate their learning curve.

Paragliding Webcams/Wind Stations

Vancouver Paragliding Webcams - get a view of cloud base to plan your paragliding cross country flight adventure.

Woodside Mtn Webcam

Woodside Wind Station

Bridal Webcam

Bridal Wind Station

Chilliwack Webcam

Hope Webcam 

Pemberton Webcam

Tsawwassen Webcam

Bellingham Bay Webcam

Tiger Mtn Webcam 

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Mar242013

iParaglide Right Site Weather: Mar.24

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area weather forecast for paragliding. Mixed skies due to transitioning pressure.  Paragliding Vancouver - east outflow valley winds to 15 km/hr transitioning to inflow late in the day. 3000ft winds aloft southeast to 15 km/hr. Paragliding Seattle - east valley winds to 16 km/hr becoming south as day progresses. Winds aloft at 3000ft: 21 km/hr southeast becoming east at 13 km/hr. Marginal day due to outflow until late and increasing cloud cover.  Best chance to paraglide in Bellingham followed by Seattle & Pemberton.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Bellingham Paragliding: -2.6C/1000ft: intermediate P3 lapse rate.  Good day day for Blanchard. 11:00-13:00 and 16:00-18:00 with P3 conditions 13:00-16:00. Wait for sea breeze. Chances to fly 80:20.

2. Seattle Paragliding: -2.6C/1000ft: P3 intermediate lapse rate.  Provided blue holes remain, Tiger should be on. Wait for outflow to subside and anabatic flow to establish. 11:00-13:00 & 17:00-19:00 P2 pilots, with P3 conditions at peak 13:00-17:00. Chances to fly 60:40.

3. Pemberton Paragliding: -1.9C/1000ft: P2 novice lapse rate. Snow shoe and fly Mackenzie upper & lower 12:00-17:00 for P2 paraglider pilots. Wait for anabatic flow to establish. Chances to fly 60:40.

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