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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: Oct 21

DateSunday, October 21, 2018 at 9:28

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area based on data available at 0800.

High pressure with outflow subsiding to inflow mid afternoon. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft NE to 10 km/hr becoming E. Valley wind outflow E to 15 km/hr in Vancouver in morning with gusty outflow to 30 km/hr in Chilliwack easing to light and variable late afternoon.  Novice peak lapse rate -0.8C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Valley winds E to 10 km/hr, easing to light and variable mid-day. Novice peak lapse rate -0.3C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Pemberton: -1.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Wait for morning katabatic and outflow winds to end. McKenzie with P2 conditions 1100-1700.  90% chances to paraglide. 

2. Paragliding Seattle: -0.3C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Wait for early fog and katabatic flows to subside. Nice fall day at Tiger with P2 conditions 1200-1700. Chances to paraglide 90%.

3. Paragliding Bellingham: -0.5 C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard with P2 conditions 1000-1700. Paragliding prospects 90%.  

4. Paragliding Vancouver: -0.8C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Wait for anabatic flow and sea-breeze arrival to combat mild ouflow aloft. Grouse for GMFT P4 advanced pilots 1300-1700. 80% paragliding chances.

5. Paragliding Whistler: -1.5C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. Wait for katabatic flow to end. Whistler team P4 advanced pilots 1200-1700. Paragliding prospects 80%.  

6. Paragliding Chilliwack: -1.0C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate. E wind aloft and strong gusty valley outflow places Chilliwack sites in lee-side for majority of day.  Paragliding not recommended in Chilliwack today. 

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