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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.

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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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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.

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iParaglide Right Site Weather: Mar.23

DateSunday, March 23, 2014 at 7:00

Weather forecast of paraglider pilots in the Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas. High pressure brings clearing skies early. Vancouver Paragliding - valley wind E outflow to 10km/hr becoming west sea-breeze to 10 km/hr. 3000ft winds east to 10 km/hr. Paragliding Seattle - valley wind light outflow becoming north to 16 km/hr. 3000ft winds aloft light and variable. Early outflow delays start of paragliding day in valleys and then strong spring conditions occur thereafter. Good early at coastal sites once sea-breeze and anabatic flows establish.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.4C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate. Blanchard should be on with decent lapse rate. P2 pilots should wait for sea-breeze 10:00-17:00, with 90:10 chances to paraglide. 

2. Paragliding Vancouver: - 2.2C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. Grouse should work for GMFT once sea-breeze starts 13:00-17:00.  90:10 Chances to fly.

3. Paragliding Seattle: -2.9C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. Great day for P4 pilots 11:00-18:00 at Tiger, with strong lapse rate. Watch for early cloud to clear and anabatic flow to establish. Chances to paraglide 80:20.  

4. Paragliding Whistler: -2.8C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Strong day at Whistler for P4 Whistler Team members 11:00-18:00.  80:20 chances for paragliding.

5. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.2C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. Upper Mackenzie 11:00-18:00 for P2s with 70:30 chances to paraglide. 

6. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Woodside: wait for lee side and catabatic conditions to end and sea-breeze to overpower outflow.  14:00-18:00 with strong spring thermals for P4 advanced pilots. 60:40 chances for paragliding.

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