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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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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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Paragliding Right Site Weather May 20 2023

DateSaturday, May 20, 2023 at 4:09

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

Transitioning pressure with mostly sunny skies in Vancouver, Bellingham and Seattle and 30-40% POP in Chilliwack and Pemberton.

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Main valley wind becoming W to 20 km/hr early in Chilliwack and W 10km/hr in Vancouver. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Valley winds E to 10 km/hr becoming W to 10 km/hr. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Seattle: -2.2C/1000ft Advanced peak lapse rate.  Great day for Tiger Mountain.  0800-2000 for P2 pilots.  Chances to paraglide 90%.

2. Paragliding Vancouver: -2.0C/1000ft Novice peak lapse rate.  Grouse Mountain for GMFT 0900-2000. 90% paragliding chances. 

3. Paragliding Bellingham: -1.7C/1000ft Novice peak lapse rate. Blanchard for P2 pilots 0900-1900. Chances to paraglide 90%. 

4. Paragliding Pemberton: -3.3C/1000ft Advanced peak lapse rate.  POP at 30%.  Mt. McKenzie for P2 pilots 0800-1200 then watch for strong conditions, possible over-development and/or Whistler Express arrival with P4 Advanced conditions 1200-2000.  Paragliding prospects 60% early, 40% late.  

5. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.5C/1000ft Intermediate peak lapse rate. Mt. Woodside for possible window early for P3 pilots 0900-1100 then watch for increasing wind and increasing cloud and 40% POP and possible blown out conditions.  Chances to paraglide early 60%, chances to paraglide late 30%. 

24. Paragliding Whistler: -3.6 C/1000ft XXX peak lapse rate.  With XXX lapse rate, 40% POP and possibility of Whistler Express South wind arrival, paraglding is not recommended in Whistler today. 

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