Arkansas Skydiving
1. What is Tandem Skydiving?
Tandem
Skydiving is the best method for making your first
Arkansas skydive. It takes a minimal amount of
instruction, and allows you to make your initial
skydive(s) with an instructor harnessed to you for
the entire skydiving experience.
2. What is Accelerated Free Fall?
AFF is the quickest method of becoming
a qualified skydiver and is also the easiest way
to learn with approximately 50 seconds of free fall
on every jump guided by our expert instructors. Most
of OUR skydives are made from 15,000 ft, and AFF
usually turns out to be much cheaper in the long
run, and much more fun than the outdated static line
method.
3. What are the benefits of AFF over
other training methods?
There are many benefits, but two of
the main ones are the continuous exposure to free
fall, that means that you are in free fall for a
long time giving you the time to practice your free
fall techniques. Another is our ability to teach
you in free fall using hand signals to adjust your
body position, thereby giving you a better result.
4. How will I know how I am doing on
the course?
As well as your debriefs, we offer
video of your jumps, these videos are used to show
you how well you are doing and are also combined
for you to have and take with you as a record of
the whole trip.
5. How does free fall feel?
Free Fall is not the stomach churning
feeling of a fun fair ride; because you are falling
on a cushion of air like a hovercraft it is a feeling
of buoyancy similar to being in the wate, but with
a much greater thrill.
6. What if I do not open the parachute?
The opening of the parachute is a very simple affair
where you take a toggle attached to a pilot chute
and throw it into the airflow; the parachute
then opens in sequence. If you lost altitude
awareness we would guide you through hand signals
telling you to open the parachute and if you
did not respond we would open it for you. You
should also recognize that our parachutes are
fitted with a computerized automatic activation
device, which would open the parachute for you
if all else failed.
7. After opening is it easy to find
the landing zone and fly the parachute to land in
the target area?
This worries many people, but everyone
finds this easy, after teaching you exactly what
to do we give you a mounted radio, and talk you down
till you are confident and competent to fly and land
yourself. Our canopies fly at approximately 20 mph
and are great fun to steer across the sky.
8. Are the landings hard?
We now use the latest ram air canopies,
which allow you to land like a fairies fluff! Even
the big guys can be afforded soft landings.
9. Is packing the parachute difficult?
Packing is a very simple procedure,
we teach you to pack as the course progresses so
that you will be competent at all aspects of skydiving
before we are finished with you. You are not expected
to pack parachutes on your initial skydives.
10. Will I be scared?
Everyone experiences some fear throughout
the course. Some find the first jump the most frightening,
whereas others feel more relaxed about the first
skydive, then feel it later in the course. This is
part of the adrenalin buzz of this course. One of
the things you will achieve is the ability to confront
and control your fear, when you get past this stage
you can really start to relax and enjoy the sport.
Enjoy Arkansas Skydiving! |
