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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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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: Aug 27

DateSaturday, August 27, 2016 at 9:48

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast, based on data available at 0600. 

Low to NE brings increasing instability, strong winds aloft, clouds and POP as day progresses. 

Sunny becoming progressively more cloudy in Whistler and Pemberton. 

Vancouver progressively more cloudy and windy in afternoon.

Chilliwack progressively more cloudy and 30% POP windy in afternoon. 

Bellingham and Seattle sunny throughout and not windy. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft NW to 44 km/hr becoming SE to 11 km/hr.  Valley wind light W to 20 km/hr building to 30 km/hr as sea-breeze establishes. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 28 km/hr. Valley wind SW to 25 km/hr. Novice Peak lapse rate -2.1C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: - 2.1C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Tiger for P2 pilots 0800-1300 with P4 conditions 1300-2000. 90% chances to paraglide. 

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -1.7C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard for P2 pilots 0800-2000. Chances for paragliding 90%.

3. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.5C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blown out and in crosswind early today. Paragliding not recommended today. 

4. Paragliding Whistler: -2.8C/1000ft advanced peak lapse rate. Strong NW wind aloft and early inflow means Whistler Express S wind will blow out sites early.  Paragliding not recommended today. 

5. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.5C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate.  Blown out early today with strong NW winds aloft and strong inflow in Valley. Increasing instability. Paragliding not recommended today.

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