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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: May 11

DateSunday, May 11, 2014 at 4:51

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area weather forecast of paragliding. Clearing skies due to high pressure. Paragliding Vancouver - light valley outflow followed by inflow to 10 km/hr. Winds aloft at 3000ft light and variable. Paragliding Seattle - light and variable valley winds.  Winds aloft at 3000ft northeast to 10 km/hr.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Vancouver: - 2.3C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. GMFT members at Grouse 12:00-19:00.  90:10 Chances for paragliding.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. P2 pilots 09:00-12:00 and 16:00-20:00 with P4 conditions 12:00-18:00. 90:10 chances for paragliding.  

3. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Wait for possible morning cloud to clear and anabatic flow. P4 paragliding pilots at Bridal 13:00-18:00 and Woodside 12:00-18:00 with P2 conditions 08:00-12:00 and 18:00-20:00. Chances to paraglide 80:20.

4. Paragliding Seattle: -3.0C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. Strong day at Tiger. Narrow window for P2 pilots 09:00-11:00 with P4 conditions 11:00-19:00. Chances to paraglide 80:20.  

5. Paragliding Whistler: -3.1C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Very strong day at Whistler, careful. Whistler Team members 09:00-20:00. 60:40 chances for paragliding.

6. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. POP at 40%. Upper Mackenzie 10:00-13:00 and 18:00-20:00 for P2s with P4 conditions 13:00-18:00.  50:50 chances to paraglide. 

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