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Loved your tandem jump? The next step in your skydiving adventure is here. 

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Learn To Skydive Solo

Learning to skydive by Accelerated Free Fall or Instructor Assisted Deployment will teach you to fly a parachute without having to be concerned about freefall. After your First Jump Course, you will jump from an airplane, solo, from 4,000 to 14,000 feet. Once your parachute is deployed you will fly it to a landing. Every jump teaches you a few more skills, exposing you to more and more altitude and freefall..

Materials

Students at GliderSports are provided a exclusive comprehensive 66-page book of information to take home. This also includes all the information for your first jump class, a log book, and your A-license card.

Superior Curriculum

Our first jump course exceeds USPA standards. We work very intimately with XCEL Skydiving to EXCEED the standards set forth by the USPA.

Advanced Technology

Skydiving is a sport constantly changing and moving forward with technological advancements. For our most heads up students, we are developing programs to use digital altimeters, GPS flight mapping, and audible altitude awareness assistance. As these programs are further developed, these technologies will become the new standard. No other skydiving center in our area has the ability to provide this. At GliderSports we continue to improve our student program while other training centers only offer min standards to their students.

Dedicated Instructors

We have a dedicated ground instructor who can focus their time on making sure you understand everything fully. Proper preparation leads to more successful skydives. Other dropzones may put a focus on getting you in the air as many times as possible, so they can charge you more, we set you up for the most successful jumps.

Get your “A” License

Whether you’ve just landed from your very first tandem skydive, or you’re ready to jump in head-first, we are ready to teach you what it takes to become a skydiver! Unlike most skydiving centers, we offer a range of training methods to suit your needs, and help you achieve your goals!

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Getting Licensed

Stage: 1

Ground School.

Getting Licensed

Stage: 2

Select a training method

Accelerated Free Fall

THE FAST TRACK: QUICKER, FASTER, SKYDIVE FOCUSED

Our AFF Student Skydiving Course is a accelerated jump program designed as a fast track to solo skydiving – you can achieve the dream of learning to skydive solo in a minimal amount of jumps.  All skydiving lessons and student jumps begin with the Glidersports First Jump Course that will teach you everything you need to begin skydiving on your own.

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Ground School Differences

AFF teaches you how to make a complete skydive. Every jump that you execute with this method of instruction is a full skydive. Instead of learning just a portion of a skydive at a time, you get to do the whole thing! This allows your progress to be significantly accelerated, thus the name.

The Skydive

During an AFF skydive, you jump with one or two instructors who hold on to you during your skydive from full altitude. They will offer you corrective input with hand signals you learned during your ground school. You will complete a set of advancement criteria that allows you to move on to the next level!

Full Speed Ahead!

Want to take it to the highest level of intensity, fun, and awesomeness? Accelerated Freefall or AFF, is the most advanced (and fastest,) method of skydiving instruction, designed to work with and for almost anyone.

Exit

After your airplane climb to altitude where you’ve spent your time preparing for the jump ahead. You will move towards the door and position yourself for your instructors to assist you on the departure from the aircraft. Hands on the door, looking at the propellers with your head outside the airplane and say UP, DOWN, ARCH as you fall away.

Instructor Assisted Deployment

LEARN THE LESS INTENSIVE WAY: LESS EXPENSIVE, CANOPY FOCUSED

Learning to skydive by instructor assisted deployment will teach you to fly a parachute without having to be concerned about freefall. After your First Jump Course, you will jump from an airplane, solo, from about 4,000 feet. Your parachute will deploy immediately, and you will fly it to a landing. Every jump teaches you a few more skills, exposing you to more and more altitude and freefall.

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Differences – Instructor Aided Deployment

AFF teaches you how to make a complete skydive. Every jump that you execute with this method of instruction is a full skydive. Instead of learning just a portion of a skydive at a time, you get to do the whole thing! This allows your progress to be significantly accelerated, thus the name.

Similarities – Instructor Aided Deployment

This methods focus on teaching you to fly a parachute before freefall, this can make it a lower pressure environment. Don’t worry, we will increase the altitude of each jump and teach you freefall after you have mastered the basics.

Getting Licensed

Stage: 3

Your First Solo Dive

Our Facilities

GliderSports offers multiple high tech classrooms in various sizes. These classrooms offer you the privacy needed during your lessons to fully absorb all the material with out outside distraction. Big screen TV’s, computer aided learning & large dry erase boards will help you understand the concepts being presented.

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