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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Sunday
Jun222014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: June 22

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area. Mostly sunny skies. Paragliding Vancouver - early east outflow to 10 km/hr becoming west inflow to 10 km/hr, with winds at 3000ft light and variable. Paragliding Seattle - southwest valley wind increasing to 20 km/hr, with winds aloft north to 10 km/hr: mostly cloudy then showers likely with chance of thunderstorm.  

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Chilliwack calling for windy in afternoon. With light and variable winds aloft, Woodside and Bridal should be on. P2 novices 07:00-12:00 with P4 conditions 12:00-20:00. 90:10 chances to paraglide. 

2. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.6C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate.  Mackenzie 09:00-13:00 and 18:00-21:00 for P2 pilots with P3 conditions 13:00-18:00. 90:10 chances to paraglide.   

3. Paragliding Vancouver: - 1.8C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. GMFT members 10:00-21:00.  90:10 paragliding chances. 

4. Paragliding Bellingham: -1.8C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. Blanchard for P2 paragliders 08:00-20:00. Paragliding chances 90:10.

5. Paragliding Whistler: -2.8C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. 09:00-21:00 Whistler flying team. Chances to fly 80:20.  

6. Paragliding Seattle: (-1.8C/1000ft lapse rate): forecast is suspect to be low as the forecast is also calling for potential thunderstorms in afternoon.  Paragliding not recommended.

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