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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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Right Site Weather Sep 11, 2022

DateSunday, September 11, 2022 at 5:41

Paragliding Weather Forecast for the Vancouver, Whistler, Pemberton, Chilliwack, Bellingham & Seattle area, based on data available at 0700.

Transitioning pressure with mostly cloudy skies and 30% POP with east wind aloft bringing smoke from inland fires.  Less cloud, smoke and and no POP in Bellingham Seattle. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft SE to 22 km/hr all day continuing to bring smoke. Valley winds E to 10 km/hr becoming W late in the day. Novice peak lapse rate -1.2C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 26 km/hr easing to 20 km/hr. Valley winds SSW to 10 km/hr. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.  

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.4C/1000ft intermediate peak lapse rate. Smoke likely to decrease actual lapse rate. Sea breeze should clear smoke earlier than elsewhere.  Blanchard for P2 pilots 1100-1900. Chances to paraglide 80%. 

2. Paragliding Seattle: -2.3C/1000ft Novice peak lapse rate.  Wait for early SW wind aloft to subside.  Tiger for P2 pilots 1300-1900. Paragliding chances 70%.

Paragliding not recommended in Vancoucer, Chilliwack and Pemberton due to 30% POP, clouds and thick smoke blocking thermalling possibilities and decreasing visibility.  

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