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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 

Sunday
Jun082014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: June 8

DateSunday, June 8, 2014 at 6:51

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas. Transitioning pressure brings mostly cloudy skies. Vancouver Paragliding - early east ouflow to 10 km/hr transitioning to west to 25 km/hr.  Winds at 3000ft norhwest to 10 km/hr becoming light and variable. Seattle Paragliding - valley winds light and variable with 3000ft winds light and variable. Marginal day for paragliding with best prospects in Seattle.  

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. Tiger should be on today with sunny skies in afternoon. wait for early cloud to clear summit. P2 pilots 10:00-13:00 and 19:00-21:00 with P4 conditions 13:00-19:00. Chances ot paraglide 80:20.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.2C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. Blanchard for P2 paragliders 08:00-13:00 watch for strong seabreeze arrival and P3 conditions thereafter. 70:30 paragliding chances.

3. Paragliding Vancouver: - 2.2C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. Wait for clouds to clear summit. GMFT members at Grouse 10:00-20:00.  Paragliding prospects 60:40.

4. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.8C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Wait for cloud to clear summit.  If bue holes develop will get strong with strong seabreeze arrival late in day. Woodside with P4 conditions 12:00-19:00. 50:50 chances to paraglide. 

5. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.5C/1000ft lapse rate: intermediate. With mostly cloudy skies and 30% POP. Chances to paraglide 40:60.  

6. Paragliding Whistler: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Mostly cloudy skies and 30% POP.  Chances to paraglide 30:70.  

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Saturday
May312014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 31

DateSaturday, May 31, 2014 at 4:46

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area weather forecast of paragliding. High pressure and sunny skies. Paragliding Vancouver: east ouflow to 10 km/hr transitioning early to inflow to 20 km/hr, with 3000ft winds aloft northwest to 14km/hr becoming west to 23 km/hr. Paragliding Seattle - light and variable valley winds becoming northwest to 15 km/hr. 3000ft winds aloft northwest to 13km/hr becoming light and variable. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Vancouver: - 2.2C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. GMFT members at Grouse 10:00-19:00.  90:10 Chances for paragliding.

2. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.2C/1000ft lapse rate: novice. P2 pilots 08:00-14:00 and 16:00-20:00 with P3 conditions 14:00-16:00. 90:10 chances for paragliding.

3. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  P2 paragliding pilots at Woodside 08:00-12:00 with P4 conditions 12:00-19:00. Chances to paraglide 80:20. 

4. Paragliding Seattle: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. P2 pilots 08:00-13:00 and 19:00-21:00 with P4 conditions 13:00-19:00. 80:20 prospects for paragliding.

5. Paragliding Pemberton: -2.7C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced. Upper Mackenzie 10:00-13:00 and 18:00-20:00 for P2s with P4 conditions 13:00-18:00.  80:20 paragliding chances. 

6. Paragliding Whistler: -2.9C/1000ft lapse rate: advanced.  Whistler Team members 09:00-20:00. 80:20 chances for paragliding.

 

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Sunday
May252014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 25

DateSunday, May 25, 2014 at 7:31

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast. Showers to rain throughout due to low pressure to northwest. Paragliding Vancouver -  outflow to 10 km/hr diminishing and becoming west inflow to 10 km/hr. Southeast 3000ft winds aloft to 15 km/hr transitioning to light and variable. Paragliding Seattle -  southwest valley winds to 15 km/hr, with 3000ft winds southwest and increasing to 18 km/hr. Vancouver, Chilliwack, Whistler, Pemberton, Bellingham and Seattle areas not recommended for paragliding today.

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Saturday
May242014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 24

DateSaturday, May 24, 2014 at 10:12

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas. Low pressure to west causing mostly cloudy skies with 40-60% POP throughout. Jet stream overhead causing decreased stability and decreased predictability. Vancouver Paragliding - east outflow to 15 km/hr becoming west inflow to 10 km/hr as the day progresses. Winds aloft at 3000ft north- northwest to 20 km/hr easing to light and variable. Seattle Paragliding -  valley winds south to 16 km/hr.  Winds at 3000ft light and variable becoming northwest to 8 km/hr. Paragliding not recommended today in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Whistler, Pemberton, and Bellingham and Seattle areas. 

 

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Monday
May192014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: May 19

DateMonday, May 19, 2014 at 5:54

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area weather forecast for paraglider pilots. Ongoing low pressure brings mostly cloudy skies and scattered showers to rain throughout. Paragliding Vancouver: valley wind light outflow becoming west to 20 km/hr.  Winds aloft at 3000ft northwest to 18 km/hr becoming light and variable as the day progresses. Seattle Paragliding: valley winds southwest to 16 km/hr, with 3000ft winds light and variable and becoming north to 16km/hr late in the day. Paragliding not recommended today in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Whistler, Pemberton, Bellingham and Seattle areas.

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