Skydiving experience
Discussion
It's the OH's 50th coming up and she's always expressed a desire to skydive. Now, personally, I think anyone who voluntarily hurls themselves out of a perfectly healthy aeroplane requires care but, it's her birthday.
I know it's not particularly in fashionable thing to say this these days but I am rather fond of her and would rather select a provider that would not require me to take her home in buckets and bags so any suggestions and recommendation would be welcome.
We're in mid Essex if that has any bearing on things.
Thanks in advance.
I know it's not particularly in fashionable thing to say this these days but I am rather fond of her and would rather select a provider that would not require me to take her home in buckets and bags so any suggestions and recommendation would be welcome.
We're in mid Essex if that has any bearing on things.
Thanks in advance.
I'm assuming this is a tandem jump. She will probably be required to sign some sort of medical declaration, either on the day or at the briefing. The briefing itself should be very straightforward, going through the basics of exiting the plane, what you do whilst you're in freefall plus the landing. The landing, by the way, is the most dangerous part of the whole thing - it's very important to keep your legs up! Guaranteed she will have a smile a mile wide. The biggest risk you'll take that day will be driving her to the venue.
StevieBee said:
Tandem!
I jumped out of Netheravon (solo jumps). But the Red Devils jump there and it is worth the drive to get the military dealing with it IMHO. https://www.netheravon.com/tandem/
king awesome. So awesome I went again a month later
My daughter did this for her 7th birthday - https://www.iflyworld.co.uk/
Couldn't get her out of the chamber, she loved it and did a number of the high flights with the instructor, much to my wife's horror.
Couldn't get her out of the chamber, she loved it and did a number of the high flights with the instructor, much to my wife's horror.
Zoobeef said:
Never done a tandom, i just went straight into a solo. Best way to do it.
(You still jump out with 2 instructors next to you.)
That is the AFF course I assume.(You still jump out with 2 instructors next to you.)
You can also take the longer and cheaper option of static line jumps increasing the height over time...
Buuut not everyone wants to jump solo (no idea why, like you I only wanted to do it on my own)
Wherever you book, make sure you read and reread the medical stuff. I wasn’t able to do mine due to having arthritis, I missed this in the medical bumph, turned up and they wouldn’t let me do it. I did get a medical certificate but by the time I’d got everything in line, the time limit ran out on the voucher I was given. I do still want to do it one day though.
Its not near you. (It's not even near me as I live in South London 
) But I did my jump in Salisbury. I could see Stonehenge once the chute had opened.
www.goskydive.com
Complete novice, full 15,000 feet (or 2.8 miles!) jump with a min of freefall. 125mph
Proper company IMHO. Nothing I saw made me doubt their professionalism, standards, training or operation. Staff are all great. Equipment was all less than 2 years old. The emergency chute will auto deploy below a certain height if you are still travelling too fast. Which was re-assuring.
They've done something like 40K jumps in the 10 years they've been operating. They even run an apprenticeship to train people to be instructors!
Wasn't cheap. £320 ish for the jump and another £120ish for another guy to jump alongside me and video it, (recommend that over the wrist camera option) But I wouldn't hesitate to recommend or use them again. (In fact Ive pointed 2 people in their direction since)
Like I say, not the nearest place to you. But I'd still travel to them. It's an all day thing anyway as you tend to get delayed . I was supposed to jump at 11am. But the cloud cover had defeated them before I got there, so I jumped about 16:00 in the end. They do warn you of this when you book. And I got great views because there was so little cloud in the end.
Little intro vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-xuHB_C9uY
This was the camera option I took (not me though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXxWOKyZ2q4
No I am not getting paid for this blatent advert!
EDIT TO ADD
Regarding health. They did mention anything around the shoulders being something they need to know. I got the impression they use a different harness. But it didn't effect me, so I wasn't really listening. Sorry
) But I did my jump in Salisbury. I could see Stonehenge once the chute had opened.www.goskydive.com
Complete novice, full 15,000 feet (or 2.8 miles!) jump with a min of freefall. 125mph
Proper company IMHO. Nothing I saw made me doubt their professionalism, standards, training or operation. Staff are all great. Equipment was all less than 2 years old. The emergency chute will auto deploy below a certain height if you are still travelling too fast. Which was re-assuring.
They've done something like 40K jumps in the 10 years they've been operating. They even run an apprenticeship to train people to be instructors!
Wasn't cheap. £320 ish for the jump and another £120ish for another guy to jump alongside me and video it, (recommend that over the wrist camera option) But I wouldn't hesitate to recommend or use them again. (In fact Ive pointed 2 people in their direction since)
Like I say, not the nearest place to you. But I'd still travel to them. It's an all day thing anyway as you tend to get delayed . I was supposed to jump at 11am. But the cloud cover had defeated them before I got there, so I jumped about 16:00 in the end. They do warn you of this when you book. And I got great views because there was so little cloud in the end.
Little intro vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-xuHB_C9uY
This was the camera option I took (not me though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXxWOKyZ2q4
No I am not getting paid for this blatent advert!
EDIT TO ADD
Regarding health. They did mention anything around the shoulders being something they need to know. I got the impression they use a different harness. But it didn't effect me, so I wasn't really listening. Sorry
Edited by S1KRR on Friday 2nd August 21:11
I've done a tandem and level 1 of the AFF (solo) - they are totally different experiences of course.
I had a really bad landing on my solo and was lucky not to break my legs.
Tandem would be good as a gift, as someone else said, just ensure she lifts her legs for the landing - apart from that you don't have to do much.
I also did 12 mins in a wind tunnel - its fun but notm uch like real skydive.
I had a really bad landing on my solo and was lucky not to break my legs.
Tandem would be good as a gift, as someone else said, just ensure she lifts her legs for the landing - apart from that you don't have to do much.
I also did 12 mins in a wind tunnel - its fun but notm uch like real skydive.
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