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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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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.

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Vancouver Paragliding Webcams - get a view of cloud base to plan your paragliding cross country flight adventure.

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8) Paragliding Videos

iParaglide researches and reviews the latest paragliding videos and updates this list of recommended material. Please note, newer is not necessarily better in tems of instructional videos. Only the very finest are selected for our library.

Rainy Friday night got you trying to explain to your friends why you love paragliding?  Join filmaker Sean White in Never Ending Thermal as three friends take a journey to some of paragliding's most dramatic locations.  Take to the sky in the ultimate global paragliding adventure: soaring, thermalling, acro and aerial parades are sure to leave your friends inspired. Watch here.

  

 

 

 

 

 

Paragliding Learn to Fly by Kitchen Productions. Order Here. An excellent "how to" video for paragliding pilots. Close up video shows details of perfecting technique. Computer generated graphics relay fundamental paragliding concepts. Recommended companion to our iP1.5 Student and iP2 Pilot courses. 

 


 

 

 

Ground handling skills are the most important aspect for safe and comfortable paragliding. Paragliding Ground Handling Techniques, by Kitchen Productions will get you kiting your paraglider in style.  Order Here. We recommend 2 hours of kiting to each hour of mountain flying. Recommended companion to our iP2 Pilot paragliding course.

 

 

 

 

 

Instability 2, with Bruce Goldsmith. The ideal companion video for iP2 Pilot and iP3 Intermediate attending an  SIV Seminar.  It covers induction and recovery of flight incidents a pilot may encounter: c-line steering, asymmetric collapse, cravats, spiral dives, front collapse, stalls, spins and reserve parachute deployments. Quick descent techniques: B-line stall, spirals and wing-overs are explained with active piloting including pitch control, and inputs to prevent cascades. SIV should only be done with instruction, over water. Watch here. 

 

Jocky Sanderon's Performance Flying assists iP2 Pilots preparing for a SIV Seminar;  iP3 Intermediates for paragliding XC Seminars; and iP4 Advanced pilots for Acro Seminars. SIV topics include: harness settings, frontals, spins, twists & stall. XC topics include themalling, scratching, transitions, the second climb, speed bar, cloudbase and flatland flying. Intro to Acro closes the video off with wingovers, asymetric spirals, loops, SATs and helicopters. This is a companion video only, for pilots attending paragliding seminars. Watch here.