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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: Apr.13

DateSunday, April 13, 2014 at 5:26

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area weather forecast of paragliding. Clear skies prevail due to high pressure. Paragliding Vancouver - early outflow to 10 km/hr in Vancouver and 30 km/hr in the valley decreasing as day progresses and becoming inflow to 10 km/hr. 3000ft winds light and variable becoming light east to 10 km/hr. Paragliding Seattle - valley wind north to 16 km/hr. Winds at 3000ft southeast to 23 km/hr. Early outflow delays start of paragliding day in valleys, wait for anabatic flows and sea-breeze to arrive. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Vancouver: - 2.0C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. Wait for anabatic flow. GMFT members at Grouse 12:00-19:00.  90:10 Chances for paragliding.

2. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.3C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. Upper Mackenzie 10:00-13:00 and 17:00-19:00 for P2s with P3 conditions 13:00-17:00.  90:10 chances to paraglide. 

3. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.0C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. P2 pilots should wait for sea-breeze to overpower possible NE wind aloft.  11:00-19:00, with 80:20 chances for paragliding.  

4. Paragliding Seattle: -2.5C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate. Good day for Tiger. P2 pilots 10:00-13:00 and 17:00-19:00 with P3 conditions 13:00-17:00. Chances to paraglide 80:20.  

5. Paragliding Whistler: -2.5C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate.  Nice day for Whistler Team members 09:00-19:00. With P3 conditions at peak 11:00-17:00. 80:20 chances for paragliding.

6. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.8C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Wait for outflow to end and anabatic flows to establish. P4 paragliding pilots at Bridal 13:00-18:00 and Woodside 12:00-17:30 with P2 conditions 17:30-19:30. Chances to paraglide 70:30.

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