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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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Right Site Weather Jul 7, 2024

DateSunday, July 7, 2024 at 4:36

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

High pressure with sunny skies. 

YVR 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable. Vancouver valley early sea breeze NW to 10 km/hr.  Chilliwack Valley winds light outflow followed by West inflow to 20 gusting to 40 km/hr by mid afternoon.  

SEA 3000 ft winds aloft light and variable becoming NW to 10 km/hr late in day.Valley winds light and variable becoming W to 10 km/hr. 

iParaglide Right Site Ranking:

1. Paragliding Chilliwack: -2.7C/1000ft Advanced peak lapse rate.  Forecast lapse rate is suspect of being higher than actual, expected to be -2.3C/1000ft Novice. Mt. Woodside for P2 pilots 0800-1500 then watch for strong sea breeze for P4 pilots 1500-1900. Bridal FSR is closed for maintenance. 90% Chances to fly early, 30% late.  

2. Paragliding Seattle: -2.4C/1000ft Intermediate peak lapse rate.  Tiger for P2 pilots 0800-1300 and 1800-21000 with P3 conditions at peak 1300-1800. Prospects for paragliding 90%.

3. Paragliding Vancouver: -1.7C/1000ft Novice peak lapse rate.   Grouse for GMFT 1000-2000 for P3 to P4 pilots. Chances for paragliding 90%.

3. Paragliding Bellingham: -1.9C/1000ft Novice peak lapse rate.  Blanchard for P2 pilots 0900-2000. Chances to paraglide 90%. 

5. Paragliding Pemberton: -4.0C/1000ft XXX peak forecast lapse rate, actual lapse rate  anticipated to be lower more in order of -3.3C/1000ft. Pemberton with strong lapse rate and extreme heat. Mt. McKenzie for P2 Pilots 0800-1100 then watch for switch to P4 conditions with extreme heat 1100-1900. Paragliding chances 80% early, 50% late. 

6. Paragliding Whistler: -4.5C/1000ft XXX peak lapse rate. Extreme lapse rate and heat. Paragliding not recommended.  

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