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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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Jul242016

iParaglide Right Site Weather: July 24

DateSunday, July 24, 2016 at 4:27

Paragliding forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas, based on data available at 0500.

High pressure brings sunny skies throughout. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable becoming NW to 28 km/hr. Valley wind early E outflow to 10 km/hr becoming W to 10 km/hr. Novice peak lapse rate -1.8C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft NNE 15 km/hr and increasing to 22 km/hr. Valley wind NW to 10 km/hr. Novice peak lapse rate -2.0C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Woodside for P2 pilots 0700-1300, watch for strong NW wind aloft after midday yielding P3-P4 conditions. 90% chances to paraglide.

2. Paragliding Pemberton: - 2.3 C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Mt. Mackenzie for P2 pilots 0900-1300 watch for strong NW wind aloft causing P3-P4 conditions 1300-2000.  Paragliding chances 90%. 

3. Paragliding Whistler: -2.5 C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Blackcomb for Whistler flying team P4 pilots 1000-2000 watch for strong NW wind aloft post 1300.  80% chances to fly.

4. Paragliding Vancouver: -1.8 C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Grouse for GMFT P4 pilots 1000-1300. Watch for strong NW wind aloft post 1300 and potential leeside conditions shutting flying down. 80% paragliding chances early, 50% late. 

5. Paragliding Bellingham: -1.6 C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard for P2 pilots 0900-1300. Watch for potential NNE wind aloft shutting things down. 60% paragliding prospects. 

6. Paragliding Seattle: - 2.0 C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. NNE wind alfot placing Tiger in lee.  Paragliding not recommended there today. 

 

 

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