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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: Apr 30

DateSunday, April 30, 2017 at 6:48

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas, based on data available at 0600. 

Low pressure persists to northwest bringing mixed skies with 60% POP and scattered showers to rain throughout Chilliwack, Whistler and Pemberton.

Early cloudbase at 3000ft.

Vancouver with partly sunny skies and 30% POP. 

Bellingham and Seattle with 50% POP and mostly cloudy. 

Jet stream directly overhead. Watch for possible sudden increase to gusty wind in Fraser Valley floor. Chilliwack and Hope calling for windy conditions this afternoon. Strong South Whistler Express wind in afternoon in Pemberton probable. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft West to 26 km/hr.  Premature sea-breeze at W to 20 km/hr. Pre-mature gusty seabreeze 24 - 35 km/hr in Hope. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 9 km/hr.  Valley wind S to 10 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

Jet Stream overhead with neighboring low to NW. High instability in system today with potential for sudden increase in winds aloft and in valley.  Paragliding pilots advisory: Do not fly in Chilliwack, Vancouver, Whistler and Pemberton.

Paragliding also not recommended in Seattle and Bellingham areas. 

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