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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.

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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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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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Paragliding Right Site Weather Jun 4, 2023

DateSunday, June 4, 2023 at 6:39

Paragliding Weather Forecast for the Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area, based on data available at 0600.

High pressure with mostly sunny skies.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft NW to 25 km/hr.  Main valley wind with early gusty West wind 34-45 km/hr in Vancouver, southwest in Abbotsford to 10 km/hr, and West to 15 km/hr in Hope.  Watch for early blown out West wind conditions.  

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft info unavailable this morning. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham:  Blanchard for P3-P4 pilots 1000-1900. Watch for possible strong sea breeze or blown out conditions. Chances to paraglide 70%. 

2. Paragliding Seattle: Tiger Mountain 1000-1900 for P3-P4 1000-1900 pilots.  Watch for possible strong West wind conditions.  Chances to paraglide 60%.

3. Paragliding Vancouver: -3.1C/1000ft Advanced peak lapse rate.  Grouse for GMFT 1000-1300 for P3-P4 pilots then watch for increasing West wind a aloft and in LZ with probable blown out conditions. Chances to paraglide early 50% chances to paraglide late 30%. 

4. Paragliding Pemberton: -3.8C/1000ft XXX peak lapse rate. Watch for XXX lapse rate and early arrival of strong Whistler Express south wind.  P4 pilots monitor conditions and choose to fly or not accordingly. Paragliding prospects 60% early, flying not recommended post 1300. 

5. Paragliding Chilliwack: -3.1C/1000ft Advanced peak lapse rate. DO NOT FLY Chilliwack today: high probability of blown out conditions early. 

6. Paragliding Whistler: -4.3 C/1000ft Extreme peak lapse rate combined with very early arrival of Whistler express strong south wind.  DO NOT FLY Whistler today.

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