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Top Gun Flight School

At iParaglide Top Gun Flight School, we take pride in having taught over 2,000 paragliding students in our 27 years of operation.

 

We are 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 creating 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 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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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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Right Site Paragliding Weather: Sep 12, 2020

DateSaturday, September 12, 2020 at 6:03

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

High pressure to SE in USA bringing smoke from wild fires in California, Oregon and Washington to us. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft SE to 17 km/hr becoming light and variable.  Valley wind E to 15 km/hr becoming S to 10 km/hr. Novice peak lapse rate -1.3C/1000ft.  

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 20 km/hr. Valley winds S to 10 km/hr. Advanced peak lapse rate -3.1C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.3C/1000ft: novice peak lapse rate.  Pemberton forecast with less smoke than other areas.  Mt. Mackenzie for P2 pilots 0900-1900.  Monitor smoke levels and if visibility becomes poor and smoke affects eyes or breathing do not fly. 60% Chances to paraglide.

Paragliding is not recommended in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Whistler, Bellingham and Seattle today due to a health advisory for smoke, poor visibility and suppressed thermals.

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