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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 

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Nov122010

6) Skywatch Xplorer 1 Wind Meter

Purchase Inquiry: Skywatch Xplorer 1 Windmeter 

Swiss design and precision brings the JDC Skywatch Xplorer 1. This is and ideal paragliding windmeter for assessing the suitability of wind conditions at paragliding launch and landing sites. Although small in size, it offers exceptional accuracy, at a remarkable value. Single button operation allows for easy paragliding wind measurements, and the display has a backlight; handy for low-light conditions. 

JDC Xplorer 1 paragliding wind meter features: 

  • Dimensions: 41 x 93 x 17 mm, 50 g
  • Wind speed measurement range: <170 km/hr, <60m/s, < 94 mph, <115 Knots
  • Accuracy +/- 3% when aligned within 30° of the wind's axis
  • Operating temp -10C to 50C
  • Designed in Switzerland 
  • One button operation
  • Backlight
  • Completely sealed; internal sensors
  • Weatherproof (can be submerged 6 feet)
  • Replaceable Lithium battery (included and installed)
  • Stainless steel back
  • Auto-off after one minute (can be disabled to remain on)
  • Includes lanyard
  • One year warranty

Purchase Inquiry: Skywatch Xplorer 1 Windmeter