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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 15

DateSaturday, April 15, 2017 at 5:54

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

Low pressure persists bringing mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers to rain throughout Vancouver, Chilliwack and Pemberton.

Bellingham mostly cloudy with a  chance of showers.

Seattle partly sunny.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft S to 19 km/hr early easing to light and variable.  Valley wind SE to 9 km/hr easing and becoming SW as the day progresses. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 15 km/hr becoming E to 15 km/hr post 1600. Valley wind S to 15 km/hr becoming light and variable. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.9C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: advanced peak lapse rate -2.9 C/1000ft.  Tiger Mountain for P2 pilots 0800-1200 with high lapse rate thereafter.  P4 pilots 1200-1600, watch for strong spring conditions and possible E winds aloft late in the day making rough conditions and shutting things down. Chances to paraglide 70% pre 1200, 40% late.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: advanced peak lapse rate -2.8 C/1000ft. Blanchard for P2 pilots 0900-1300 then watch for increasing lapse rate and P4 conditions during peak 1300-1700 with possible east wind aloft thereafter. Although Bellingham is calling for cloudy with a chance of showers, Blanchard often has a blue hole when other areas do not.  Unfortunately Bellingham Bay webcam is down so condition can't be verified. Paragliding prospects 50%. 

Paragliding is not recommended today in Vancouver Chilliwack or Pemberton. 

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