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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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May242020

iParaglide Right Site Weather May 24

DateSunday, May 24, 2020 at 9:30

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

Low to NW brings mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers with some brief clearing periods in select areas in Vancouver, Chilliwack and Pemberton areas.

Partly sunny in Bellingham and mostly sunny skies in Seattle. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft SE to 15 km/hr.  Valley flow E outflow to 10 km/hr becoming west inflow to 10 km/hr by mid afternoon. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.  

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Valley winds winds SW to 10 km/hr. Intermediate peak lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: -2.5C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Great day for Tiger Mountain, once summit clears cloud.  Then a nice moderate day with good thermals for intermediate P3 pilots 1100-1800 with P2 conditions 1800-2000.   Chances to fly 80%.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.0C/1000ft novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard Mountain often has a blue hole when other sites in Fraser Valley are cloud/rained out. Blanhcard for P2 pilots 1000-1900.  Chances to paraglide 70%.

With 30-50% POP and low cloud base, paragliding not recommended in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Squamish, Whistler or Pemberton today. 

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