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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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7) Paragliding Books

iParaglide reads the latest paragliding books and updates this list of recommended material.  Only the finest paragliding books have been selected.

Dennis Pagen brings the definitive "how to" paraglide book in the Art of Paragliding. Order Here. Recommended companion book for iP1.5 Student to iP2 Novice paraglider pilots. Well illustrated, filled with drawings showing details and photos.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding the Sky by Dennis Pagen is a paragliding pilots' must read to understand the invisible medium that allows free flight. Order Here. Paramount for paragliding safety to decide when to fly or not and also for performance to understand sources of lift.  Essential reading for iP2 Novice to iP4 Advanced paraglider pilots. Recommended companion book for our iP2 Novice Paraglider Pilot Certification. 

 

 

 

 

 

Burkhard Martens exceptional use of modern graphics and photographic overlays give a comprehensive, easily understood, highly visual guide to paragliding concepts that are difficult to explain textually. Order Here. Thermal Flying will aid you in your quest to soar and thermal as you progress as a iP3 Intermediate or iP4 Advanced paraglider pilot.  Recommended reading for our iP3 Intermediate Paraglider Pilot Certification. 

 

 

 

Acro legends: Mike Kung, Alexander Meschuh Michael Nesler and Gundrun Ochsl combine talents in syncro as the "Professional Flying Team" to bring you Acrobatics: Paragliding Secrets:  the "Bible" on how to acro and do it on a safe progression. Order Here. Ideal book for once you are a seasoned advanced iP4 pilot, flying hundreds of hours per year, ready to embark on the ultimate level of paragliding. Recommended reading for our iP4 Advanced Paraglider Certification.