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
Feb232014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: Feb.23

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton. Snowfall continues with strong outflow winds.  Vancouver Paragliding: - east outflow to 20 km/hr with gusty outflow in Chilliwack to 40 km/hr.  Winds aloft at 3000ft east to 36 km/h. Seattle paragliding: valley winds light east outflow becoming north to 15 km/hr. Winds aloft at 3000ft southwest to 32/km/hr. Wind driven snowfall and outflow in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton, Whistler & Bellingham and rain and outflow in Seattle make paragliding not recommended today. 

Saturday
Feb222014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: Feb.22

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton paragliding weather forecast. Dip in polar air mass brings early snow, transitioning to rain later. Snowfall persists above 500ft.  Paragliding Vancouver - east ouflow valley winds 10 km/hr. 3000ft winds aloft light and varaible becoming sutheast to 15 km/hr. Seattle paragliding- valley winds light east outflow becoming south to 24 km/hr. 3000ft winds aloft southwest increasting to 15 km/hr. Low cloudbase, outflow and snowfall make paragliding in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton, Whistler, Bellingham, Seattle areas not recommended today.

Sunday
Feb162014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: Feb.16

Paragliding weather forecast for Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton areas. Strong southwest winds and precipitation due to strong low to west. Vancouver Paragliding - southwest winds becoming southeast gusty valley flow to 80 km/hr. Winds aloft at 3000ft southwest to 35 km/hr becoming southeast to 70 km/hr as the day progresses. Wind advisory in affect. Paragliding in Seattle: valley winds southwest and increasing to 80 km/hr. Winds aloft at 3000ft southwest to 50 km/hr and increasing to 80 km/hr as the day progresses. Wind advisory in effect. PILOTS ADVISORY: do not paraglide in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton, Whistler, Bellingham, Seattle areas today due to un-flyable increasing gusty winds and chance of snow/precipitation as the day progresses.

Sunday
Feb092014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: Feb.9

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast. Low pressure to west brings increasing clouds and chance of precipitation/snow as the day progresses.  Paragliding Vancouver: gusty valley outflow to 40 km/hr in Chilliwack and 10km/hr in Vancouver. 3000ft winds aloft southeast to 10 km/hr. Seattle Paragliding: northeast valley winds to 15 km/hr.  3000ft winds aloft Northwest to 16km/hr.  Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton, Whistler, Bellingham, Seattle areas not recommended due to increasing cloud and chance of snow/precipitation as the day progresses, combined with ongoing catabatic flow and gusty outflow placing most sites in lee side for majority of the day.

Saturday
Feb012014

iParaglide Right Site Weather: Feb.1

Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area paragliding weather forecast. 

Low pressure to west brings transitioning skies with increasing cloud and valley outflow. Paragliding Vancouver: valley outflow to 15 km/hr in Vancouver with gusty outflow to 35 km/hr in Chillwack area.  Winds aloft at 3000ft forecast as light and variable, but suspect to be outflow. Vancouver-Chilliwack-Whistler-Pemberton areas not recommended for paragliding today due to outflow.

Paragliding Seattle: valley winds east outflow to 15 km/hr and diminishing as the day progresses. 3000ft winds aloft southwest to 15 km/hr.  Chance of showers makes Seattle not recommended for paragliding today.

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Bellingham: lapse rate -2.2C/1000ft: Novice. Blanchard 10:00-16:00 for P2 pilots. Wait for anabatic flow and sea-breeze to establish. 80:20 chances for paragliding.