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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.

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Right Site Weather Aug 06, 2022

DateSaturday, August 6, 2022 at 8:16

Paragliding Weather Forecast for the Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area, based on data available at 0500.

High pressure with mostly sunny skies.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft N to 10 km/hr becoming NW to 17 km/hr. Main valley wind early WNW at Vancouver to 20 km/hr.  Chilliwack with gusty outflow 20-30 km/hr early easing to light and variable mid afternoon. Novice peak lapse rate -2.3C/1000ft.

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft NNE 13km/hr increasing to 19 km/hr. Valley winds NNW to 13 km/hr. Intermediate peak lapse rate -2.5C/1000ft.  

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Pemberton: -3.4 C/1000ft XXX peak lapse rate.  Calling for NW winds aloft at 3000ft to 17 km/hr making for strong conditions in afternoon. Mt. McKenzie for P2 pilots 0800-1200 then watch for switch to P4 to XXX conditions.  Paragliding prospects 90% early, 60% late. 

2. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.9C/1000ft Advanced peak lapse rate. Lee-side at Woodside until post 1300. Pilots Advisory:  DO NOT FLY.  Bridal should get North Wind early and light up nicely with some soarable conditions. Bridal for P2 pilots 1000-1400 then watch fro switch to P4 conditions.  Chances to paraglide early 80%, late 70%. 

3. Paragliding Bellingham: -2.4C/1000ft Intermediate peak lapse rate. Blanchard with its proximity to ocean and low altitude of launch should not be influenced by N winds aloft more inland, but check to verify this.   Blanchard for P2 pilots 0800-1400 and 1700-2000 with P3 conditions at peak 1400-1700. Paragliding prospects 80%.

4. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.3C/1000ft Novice peak lapse rate. Watch for possible NW winds aloft creating crosswind conditions and choose to fly or not accordingly.  Grouse for GMFT P3 Intermediate Pilots 1000-2000.  60% chances to paraglide. 

5. Paragliding Whistler: -3.8 C/1000ft XXX peak lapse rate with strong NW wind aloft.  Paragliding not recommended. 

6. Paraglding Seattle: -2.5C/1000ft Intermediate peak lapse rate.  North winds aloft placing Tiger in lee today, paragliding not recommended. 

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