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.

Paragliding Webcams/Wind Stations

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

Woodside Mtn Webcam

Woodside Wind Station

Bridal Webcam

Bridal Wind Station

Chilliwack Webcam

Hope Webcam 

Pemberton Webcam

Tsawwassen Webcam

Bellingham Bay Webcam

Tiger Mtn Webcam 

Saturday
Sep252010

iParaglide Right Site Weather Sep.25/10 

Paragliding Weather Synopsis: low to NW with high to SE meshing and causing strong South winds aloft. Although today will enjoy a mix of sun and cloud in Vancouver, Chilliwack & Bellingham areas, paragliding is not recommended due to potential for sudden and strong increase in south to southwest wind in mountains. Pemberton valley with 30% POP and potential for Whistler Express to blow out today: paragliding also not recommended.   

 

Wednesday
Sep222010

iparaglide Right Site Weather Sep.22/10 08:30

Paragliding Weather Synopsis 08:30: high pressure dominates. Early outflow expected to dissipate and change to light and variable conditions.   

Vancouver: sunny to 18C. Lapse 2.5: Intermediate.  Grouse for GMFT paragliding team pilots only.   

Chilliwack: sunny to 19C.  Lapse 2.7: Intermediate.  Outflow subsiding northeast 18 km/hr @08:00 and expected to continue to subside and yield great paragliding day for P1 to P3 pilots at Woodside 11:00-18:30.  

Pemberton: sunny to 15 C.  Lapse 2.0: novice.  Looks like a great paragliding day for P2 paraglider pilots at Mckenzie upper and lower 10:30 onward.       

Bellingham: sunny to 18C, lapse to 2.4: Intermediate.  Blanchard 10:30 onward P2 novice paragliding conditions. Black for P3 paraglider pilots 10:30-18:30. 

 

Monday
Sep202010

iParaglide Right Site Weather Sep.20/10

Paragliding Weather Synopsis:  low pressure to north of us dominates.  Resulting strong west wind aloft. Rain throughout Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton and Bellingham areas.  Risk of thundershowers in Chilliwack: Paragliding not recommended. 

Saturday
Sep182010

iParaglide Right Site Weather Sep. 18/10


Paragliding Weather Synopsis:  low pressure to southwest of us dominates.  Resulting east wind aloft. Rain throughout Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton and Bellingham areas: Paragliding not recommended. 

Wednesday
Sep152010

iparaglide Right Site Paragliding Weather Sep.15/10

Synopsis:  low pressure to west of us dominates.  Resulting south wind aloft. 30- 40% POP throughout Vancouver,  Chilliwack and Pemberton areas.  Bellingham increasing cloud and strong south wind.  Paragliding not recommended.