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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.

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 

Thursday
Jul292010

iParaglide Right Site: Paragliding Weather Jul.29/10 

DateThursday, July 29, 2010 at 7:55

Sustained high Pressure brings sunny skies.  West wind at 3000ft increasing to 20km/hr at peak. P2 early and late, with P3-P4 paragliding pilot conditions at peak.  

Vancouver: Lapse 1.8. Grouse. P4 advanced paraglider GMFT team pilots only.      

Chilliwack: Lapse 2.5. Woodside, P2 paraglider pilots before 13:00. P3 pilots 13:00-18:00.  Bridal P3 pilots 13:00-18:00. 

Pemberton: Lapse 3.0. Strong P4 lapse day for flying Pembie. Mackenzie & Upper Launch P2 paragliders before 11:00, watch for Whistler express south wind. P4 paragliding conditions 11:00-19:00.

Bellingham: Lapse 1.5. Blanchard: P2 paragliding pilots. Black P2 pilots before 13:00 and after 18:00, P3 pilots at peak.

 

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Tuesday
Jul272010

iparaglide Right Site: Paragliding Weather Jul.27/10 

DateTuesday, July 27, 2010 at 9:08

Sustained high Pressure brings sunny skies, reduced lapse rates, and P2 paragliding pilot conditions. 

Vancouver: Lapse 1.8. Grouse. P4 advanced paraglider GMFT team pilots only.      

Chilliwack: Lapse 2.3. Woodside, P2 paraglider pilots.  Bridal P2 paragliding pilots. 

Pemberton: Lapse 2.5. Great day for flying Pembie. Mackenzie & Upper Launch P2 paragliders before 13:00 and after 18:00. P3 paragliding conditions 12:00 -18:00.

Bellingham: Lapse 1.0. Blanchard: P2 paragliding pilots. Black P2 pilots before 13:00 and after 18:00, P3 pilots at peak.

 

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Monday
Jul262010

iparaglide Right Site: Paragliding Weather Jul.26/10 

DateMonday, July 26, 2010 at 11:20

High Pressure brings sunny skies and P2-P4 paragliding conditions. 

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Vancouver: Lapse 1.5. Grouse. P4 advanced paraglider GMFT team pilots only.      

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Chilliwack: Woodside. P2 paraglider pilots non-peak hours. Lapse 2.3. P3-P4 pilots 13:00 - 18:00: west wind to 20 km/hr.

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Pemberton: Mackenzie before 11:00 for P2 paragliders. Lapse at 2.8. P3-P4 paragliding conditions post 11:00, watch for strong lapse rate and Whistler Express - south wind.       

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Bellingham: Blanchard: P2 paragliding pilots most of day. Black P2 pilots before 13:00 and after 18:00, P3 pilots at peak.  Lapse at 2.0. 

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Sunday
Jul252010

iparaglide Right Site: Paragliding Weather Jul.25/10 

DateSunday, July 25, 2010 at 8:04

High Pressure brings sunny skies and P2 paragliding conditions. 

Vancouver-Seattle Winds at Sea Level @10:00-18:00@270@<10km/hr: P2 paraglider pilots.

YVR Winds@3000 ft@02:00-11:00@070@9km/hr: Outflow early.  @11:00-22:00@280@15 km/hr: P2 Novice.  

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Vancouver: sunny peaking to 24C: Lapse rate 1.5C/1000ft.

Grouse. P4 advanced paraglider GMFT team pilots only.      

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Chilliwack: sunny peaking to 29C. Lapse rate: 2.3C/1000C: P2 Novice. 

Outflow early. Woodside & Bridal post 10:00, P2 Novice paraglider pilots. Stronger conditions at peak 13:00-17:00.

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Pemberton: sunny peaking at 31C.  Lapse rate: 2.7C: P4 Advanced paragliders.  

Mackenzie early for P2 paragliders. Then P3-P4 paragliding conditions post 12:00, with strong lapse rate.      

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Seattle 13:00-22:00 Winds @3000 ft@360@9 km/hr: P2 Novice.

Expect localized anabatic conditions to overpower light north wind aloft.  Blanchard, Tiger, Black: P2 Pilots with stronger conditions 13:00-17:00. 

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Saturday
Jul242010

iParaglide Right Site: Paragliding Weather Jul.24/10 

DateSaturday, July 24, 2010 at 4:33

High Pressure brings sunny skies and P3 conditions early.  West winds aloft forecast to blow out most sites by 13:00.

Vancouver-Seattle Winds at Sea Level @10:00-18:00@270@<15km/hr: P2 paraglider pilots.

YVR Winds@3000 ft@09-18@310@19km/hr: P3 Pilots.  @18-05@290@27 km/hr: No fly.  

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Vancouver: sunny peaking to 24C: Lapse rate 1.7C/1000ft: P2 Novice.

Watch for west wind blowing out site by 11:00.    

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Chilliwack: sunny peaking to 28C. Lapse rate: 2.3C/1000C: P2 Novice. 

Woodside early, P3 Intermediate paraglider pilots. Expect west wind too strong by 12:00.

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Pemberton: sunny peaking at 26C.  Lapse rate: 2.0C: P2 Novice paragliders.  

Mackenzie early.  Expect Whistler express by 12:00 and site blown out.      

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Seattle 13:00-22:00 Winds @3000 ft@010@30 km/hr: No fly.    

Paragliding not recommended. 

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