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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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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Saturday
Mar092013

iParaglide Right Site Weather

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast. Mostly sunny skies due to high pressure.  Paragliding Vancouver: gentle east outflow valley winds in morning becoming light inflow as the day progresses.  Winds aloft light and variable. Paragliding Seattle: valley winds light east becoming southwest to 10 km/hr, with winds aloft at 3000ft light and variable becoming southwest to 8 km/hr. Wait for anabatic & seabreeze flow to establish, then good day for paragliding in Seattle, Pemberton, Bellingham, Vancouver (& Chilliwack).

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding  Seattle: lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft: P3 intermediate paragliding conditions.   Decent lapse rate for this time of year should yield great flights. Tiger 12:00-17:00. Wait for cloud to clear and anabatic conditions to develop. Chances 80:20.

2. Pemberton Paragliding: lapse rate -1.9C/1000ft: novice P2 conditions. Snow shoe and fly Mackenzie upper & lower 13:00-17:00 for P2 paraglider pilots. Wait for anabatic flow to establish. Chances 90:10

3. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -1.9C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding lapse.  Great day for Blanchard 10:00-17:00.  With only light outflow in morning, seabreeze should start early.  Chances 90:10.

4. Whistler Paragliding: lapse rate -2.1C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding. Whistler team paragliders only 12:00-17:00. Chances 80:20. Wait for anabatic flow. 

5. Paragliding Vancouver: lapse rate -2.2C/1000ft: novice P2 paragliding conditions. Grouse Team flying members only 12:00-17:00. Wait for anabatic conditions. Chances 80:20.

6. Chilliwack Paragliding: lapse rate -2.2C/1000ft: P2 novice paragliding conditions. Wait for early cloud to dissipate and anabatic flow to establish. P2 pilots 13:00-17:00. Chances 70:30.

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