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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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Right Site Weather Apr 20, 2024

DateSaturday, April 20, 2024 at 7:10

Paragliding Weather Forecast for the Vancouver, Chilliwack, Bellingham, Seattle, Whistler & Pemberton area, based on data available at 0700.

Transitioning pressure to low with progressively clouding of skies, increasing chance of precipitation in late afternoon in mountain areas, and possibility of front arrival with high gust winds, strong lapse rate and over-development. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft ESE to 37 km/hr becoming WSW to 26 km/hr.  Vancouver Valley wind E to 20 gusting to 40 km/hr becoming SW 40 gusting to 60 km/hr. Chilliwack Valley wind NW 20 gusting to 40 km/hr, becoming SW 30 gusting to 50 km/hr. XXX Peak Lapse Rate at -3.8C/1000ft. 

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft SSE to 33 km/hr becoming SE gusting to 46 km/hr.  Valley winds NNE gusting to 26 km/hr becoming WSW gusting to 40 km/hr. XXX Peak Lapse Rate at -3.5C/1000ft. 

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Today's forecast looks un-safe for paragliding today with the proximity of jet stream, arrival of low early afternoon, XXX lapse rate, forecast for gusty winds exceeding 40 km/hr throughout and possibility of over-development:  PARAGLIDING PILOT'S ADVISORY: DO NOT FLY in Vancouver, Chilliwack, Pemberton, Bellingham and Seattle areas today. 

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