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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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iParaglide Right Site Weather: Mar.30

DateSaturday, March 30, 2013 at 7:33

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast. High pressure brings sunny skies.  Paragliding in Vancouver: east outflow valley winds to 10 km/hr in morning becoming light inflow as the day progresses.  Winds at 3000ft light and variable becoming east to 11 km/hr. Paragliding in Seattle: valley winds north to 16km/hr. 3000ft winds aloft east to 16km/hr and easing to 10 km/hr as the day progresses. Wait for outflow to subside and anabatic conditions to develop. Good day for paragliding in Bellingham and later in Vancouver, Pemberton, Whistler.  Seattle & Chilliwack in lee early but should open up late in the day. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Bellingham Paragliding: -1.6C/1000ft: novice P2 lapse rate.  A nice day for a drive down the Chukanut to Blanchard. 11:00-17:00 P2 pilots. Wait for outflow to be overpowered by sea breeze. Chances to fly 80:20.

2. Vancouver Paragliding: -1.7C/1000ft: P2 novice lapse rate. Grouse Mountain Flying Team members only 11:00-17:00. Chances to fly 80:20. 

3. Pemberton Paragliding: -2.5C/1000ft: P3 intermediate lapse rate. Snow shoe and fly Mackenzie upper & lower 12:00-17:00 for P3 paraglider pilots. Wait for anabatic flow to establish. Chances to fly 70:30.

4. Whistler Paragliding: -2.7C/1000ft: P4 advanced lapse rate. Whistler Mountain Flying Team members only. P4 pilots 12:00-17:00. Chances to fly 70:30.

5. Seattle Paragliding: -2.0C/100ft: P2 novice lapse rate. Wait for anabatic flow to establish. P2 paraglider pilots 11:00-18:00. Chances to fly 60:40. 

6. Chilliwack Paragliding: -2.7C/1000ft: P4 advanced lapse rate. Watch for lee side conditions.  Wait for sea breeze and anabatic flows. Be careful. P4 pilots 13:00-18:00. Chances to fly 50:50.

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