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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

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Chilliwack Webcam

Hope Webcam 

Pemberton Webcam

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4) Syride SYS'Evolution: Paragliding Flight Computer

Purchase Inquiry: Syride SYS-Evolution Paragliding Flight Computer

 

Paragliding enthusiasts searching for the ultimate expression of the flight instrument, need to look no further than Syride's revolutionary SYS'Evolution.

 

Top Cross Country Paragliding Pilots will appreciate that the key design aspects that make for great flight Instruments are:

  1.  Visibility:  Seeing the information clearly in bright sunlit conditions. At a glance. Without eye strain or getting distracted from flight or task and compromising safety. Intuitive graphic interfaces.
  2.  Tonality:  Hearing the info how you want. Loud if you want, very quiet, or silent.  Adjustable pitch and other sound customization are a significant added bonus to create sounds more pleasing to the user.  
  3.  Operability:  Being able to easily work the Instrument with a gloved hand. Minimal drilling through screens to get the info you want. 
  4.  Configurability:  The ability to customize the instrument to your specific needs and place data fields on each screen to the size and location you want.
  5.  Growability:  The Instrument will display just basic flight parameters for Novice pilots but also introduce new intermediate and advanced data as the paragliding pilot grows, and can ultimately take the pilot to the highest levels of flight including competition and world record flying.

Syride has optimized all of these key parameters in creating the SYS'Evolution, a new category of Alti-Vario-GPS instrument, a true tablet style of Flight Computer.

   

Sys’Evolution is empowered with the best and largest screen available on market for paragliding.   A one of a kind, 3rd generation 6" Carta E-ink Screen, specifically designed for 16 shades of grey: is sharp from any viewing angle and actually becomes even more readable in sunshine. This new kind of E-ink screen has 50% increased contrast and 20% reduced reflections over pervious generations of E-ink screen. Use of the E-Ink screen also dramatically reduces power consumption yielding exceptional battery autonomy of 20 to 30 hours!

 

 

If you've found the pitch of your old variometer irritating in flight, you can relax knowing that the volume and tone can easily be configured to your taste on the SYS'Evolution. 

The pressure touch screen is specifically designed to work with gloved hand. Syride has also taken extra effort to reduce the screen border and complete the instrument with a large screen to instrument size ratio.

SYS'Evolution is designed from the ground up to run optimally off a variety of Operating Systems.

 

Powered by user friendly 100% Syride Software, all interfaces are simple, intuitive and obvious. The hardware and software are designed to work together seamlessly.  This allows pilots to simply plug in their instrument and connect to the Syride website and swiftly configure the instruments screens to their precise liking and carry out other customization, downloading and uploading functions.

 

The SYS'Evolution has a complete set of competition and FAI world record functions including data logging and innovates a step beyond offering a G-Meter and a new Augmented Reality 3-D flight visualization tool. Augmented Reality displays the topography of terrain along your flight path as grid of 3-D polygons, showing hills and mountains, way point cylinders, airspaces and more to optimize your ability to visualize the best track to take. This advanced tool also assists to confirm glide ratio and landing point and may assist to get out of clouds while avoiding terrain.

All pilots ultimately need to be able to study the weather down to the micro scale effects in order to ensure safe flying and optimal Cross Country flights.  SYS'Evolution pulls weather data through Wifi to keep you abreast of changing weather while in standby mode. 

SYS'Evolution offers full connectivity via Wi-fi, Bluetooth or USB to synchronize data via download or upload:

  • The current and next positions (up to next 35 days) of satellites networks through the “AssistNow” feature of U-Blox GPS chip. This will reduce the GPS fix delay down to 1 second after hard reset.
  • Real-time weather forecast from available weather providers.
  • Automatic flight upload to your online flightbook on syride.com
  • Flying sites information from Syride database (more than 6000 flying sites over 100 countries).
  • Real-time live tracking through Smartphone and Bluetooth.
  • Pre-recorded Safety message with GPS coordinates sent by SMS via Bluetooth connection to smartphone.

This fine instruments innovative design features are quickly becoming appreciated by a variety of light aircraft users worldwide. 

 

 

The SYS'Evolution is your ultimate flying coach, helping you gain new insights and choose the best track to get you flying ever greater cross country adventures!

Syride SYS'Evolution Product Briefing

Syride SYS'Evolution Manual

Purchase Inquiry: Syride SYS'Evolution Paragliding Flight Computer