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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iParaglide Right Site Weather: June 23

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas. High pressure ridge between two lows gives temporary clearing. Vancouver Paragliding: valley winds outflow to 10 km/hr, with 3000ft winds aloft east to 15 km/hr becoming south to 11 km/hr post 11:00. Paragliding Seattle - valley winds south to 10 km/hr becoming west, with 3000ft winds aloft south to 8 km/hr becoming sothwest to 25 km/hr post 16:00.  Narrow windows to fly Chillwack.  Pemberton & Vancouver open to paragliding all day. Seattle cloudy with rain, not recommmended.  Bellingham cloudy, not recommended.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Pemberton: -3.2C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. Epic day for pemberton with strong conditions. Novice P2 paraglider pilots 09:00-13:00 with P4 advanced pilots 13:00-20:00.  Watch for possible early front arrival and OD late in day.  Chances to paraglide 80:20. 

2. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.5C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate.  Grouse for Grouse Mountain Flying Team members. Chances to paraglide 70:30.

3. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.5C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate. Woodside 09:00-13:00 Novice P2 pilots, watch for potential lee conditions to subside. P3 intermediates 13:00-19:00, watch for strong conditons and potential OD late. Chances to paraglide 60:40. 

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