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 

Sunday
May292016

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 29

Weather forecast for paraglider pilots in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas, based on data available at 0600.

Mostly cloudy skies and showers, clearing later in the day: due to transitioning pressure as low moves further east.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft W 20 km/hr and increasing to 28 km/hr. Valley winds W and increasing to 20 km/hr. Advanced Peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable.  Valley winds E to 10 km/hr becoming NW to 10 km/hr. Intermediate Peak lapse rate -2.6C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking

1. Bellingham paragliding: Intermediate Peak Lapse Rate -2.5C/1000 ft.  A blue hole is likely to develop at Blanchard today. Blanchard for P3 pilots 1100-1800. Chances for paragliding 80%. 

Mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers till mid afternoon makes paragliding not recommended in Chilliwack, Whistler, Vancouver, Pemberton and Seattle sites today.   

Saturday
May282016

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 28

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast, based on data available at 0500.

Rain in most areas due to low pressure.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft SE to 26 km/hr and increasing to 48 km/hr. Valley wind E to 16 km/hr becoming S to 20 km/hr. Novice Peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.  

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 37 km/hr easing to 33 km/hr. Valley wind S to 21 km/hr. Novice Peak lapse rate --1.3C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

Rain makes paragliding not recommended in Chilliwack, Whistler, Vancouver, Pemberton, Bellingham and Seattle sites today.

Monday
May232016

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 23

Weather forecast for paraglider pilots in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas, based on data available at 0500.

Mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers 30-70% POP due low pressure to the east.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft NW to 13 km/hr, becoming light and variable. Advanced Peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable.  Advanced Peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking

1. Seattle Paragliding: Advanced Peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. Seattle calling for sunny skies in the afternoon. Watch for strong post frontal conditions at Tiger. P4 pilots 1200-1800. 70% paragliding prospects. 

2. Bellingham paragliding: Intermediate Peak Lapse Rate -2.5C/1000 ft.  A blue hole is likely to develop at Blanchard today. Blanchard for P3 pilots 1100-1800. Chances for paragliding 70%. 

Mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers makes paragliding not recommended in Chilliwack, Whistler, Vancouver and Pemberton sites today.   

Sunday
May222016

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 22

Weather forecast for paraglider pilots in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas, based on data available at 0700.

Mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers 30-70% POP due low pressure to the east.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable becoming SW to 11 km/hr. Advanced Peak lapse rate -2.8C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SW to 15 km/hr. Intermediate  Peak lapse rate -2.6C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking

1. Bellingham paragliding: Advanced Peak Lapse Rate -2.8C/1000 ft.  A blue hole is likely to develop at Blanchard today.  Watch for advanced conditions with strong thermals.  Blanchard for P4 pilots 1000-1800. 80% Chances to paraglide. 

Mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers makes paragliding not recommended in Chilliwack, Whistler, Vancouver, Pemberton, and Seattle sites today.   

Saturday
May212016

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 21

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area weather forecast for paraglider pilots, based on data available at 0700.

Mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers 30-70% POP due low pressure to the south.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft N to 11 km/hr easing to light and variable. Intermediate Peak lapse rate -2.4C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light N to 9 km/hr becoming southwest to 22 km/hr. Intermediate  Peak lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

Mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers makes paragliding not recommended in Chilliwack, Whistler, Vancouver, Pemberton, Bellingham and Seattle sites today.