Top Gun Flight School

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.

Top Gun References

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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iParaglide Location

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.

iParaglide Flying Sites

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.

Right Stuff Equipment

We regularly test fly the latest paragliding gear and select only the very finest for our iParaglide Right Stuff Paragliding Equipment Store. This ensures our paraglider pilots enjoy a state of the art performance and safety advantage to accelerate their learning curve.

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Vancouver Paragliding Webcams - get a view of cloud base to plan your paragliding cross country flight adventure.

Woodside Mtn Webcam

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Bridal Wind Station

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Hope Webcam 

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Tsawwassen Webcam

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Right Site Paragliding Weather: Jun 14, 2020

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Squamish, Whistler & Pemberton paragliding weather forecast, based on data available at 0500.

Low to SW brings instability, 60-100% POP in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Squamish, Whistler & Pemberton.

Bellingham & Seattle with 20% POP early and progressively clearing to sunny skies as day progresses.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft W to 13 km/hr, becoming SW to 17 km/hr post 1200. Valley flow SE to 10 km/hr becoming SW to 15 km/hr as day progresses. Advanced peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 22 km/hr. Valley winds SSW to 16 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -3.1C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Seattle Paragliding:  -3.1C/1000ft Advanced Peak Lapse Rate.  Wait for clouds to clear summit and/or sun to start to burn through, then watch for extremely powerful thermals with advanced conditions at Tiger Mountain.  For Advanced P4 pilots only 11:00 - 19:00.  Watch out for potential for over development late in afternoon. Chances for paragliding for advanced P4 pilots 70% early, prior to 16:00, 30% late. 

2. Bellingham Paragliding: -2.9C/1000ft Advanced Peak Lapse Rate. Mt. Blanchard with P2 Novice conditions 09:00-12:00 today then watch for increasing strong conditions to P4 advanced 12:00-18:00. 70% Chances for paragliding early, 50% late. 

With neighboring low bringing instability and 60-100% POP, paragliding is not recommended today in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Squamish, Whistler, or Pemberton. 

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