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 

Gear Check Seminar ($247)         Sep 14, 2024 

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iParaglide believes in empowering pilots for maximum knowledge capture and thereby enjoyment of the sport. The Gear Check Seminar takes pilots through a Paraglider Preliminary Inspection.  Participants do a hands on Preliminary Inspection of their own equipment, with instructor guidance, so that in the future, they have sufficient awareness of when their paraglider and harness needs a Detailed Paraglider or Harness Inspection.

 

 

Seminar topics include

  • Preliminary Paraglider Inspections: How To and Practicum
  • Preliminary Inspection of Harness: How To and Practicum
  • Symmetry Checks
  • Paraglider Certification Reports, Specification Tables and Line Diagrams
  • The Basics of Detailed Paraglider Inspection and when to get one done
  • Demo of Detailed Paraglider Inspection Laser Line Measurements and Porosity Tests
  • Paraglider and Harness Maintenance
  • Basic Repairs and recognizing the difference between Minor, Moderate and Major Damage or Wear 

 

 

 

 

 

Gear Check Seminar ($247)*         Sep 14, 2024

 

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* 1 day, 8 hour course.  Course modules require successful completion and a 80% minimum pass mark, in order for student to be able to do reasonable Preliminary Inspections for themselves (only) in the future. Not to be misconstrued as a replacement for professional paraglider inspection or repair by a qualified technician and facility. The aim of the course is to help pilots recognize when they should take their paraglider in for a Detailed Paraglider Inspection. Full payment of the course must be received prior to commencement of training.  We reserve the right to discontinue training any student not following directions or conducting themselves in a manner that creates a negative environment or may endanger themselves or others. There will be no refunds for partial course completions or unsuccessful knowledege capture due to absenteeism, dismissal, or other.