We only employ commercially rated pilots that have undergone a stringent company checkout prior to flying for us. Our company operations manual is authorised by the Department of Civil
Aviation.
Our instructors have a minimum of 1000 jumps. We insist that all our instructors are checked out by third party examiners, not in house.
All our packers are qualified under the direct supervision of a Parachute Rigger and all packs are supervised by a Rigger.
These are the people that pack and repack our reserves in line with the manufacturers' specifications. Riggers also carry out the minor repairs necessary to maintain our parachutes and
harnesses in the best condition possible.
Without tempting fate, we pride ourselves with an impeccable safety record during thousands of tandem jumps with passengers taken for a first (and occasionally a second and third) time. If you would like to know how this is possible, read on.
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Our Aircraft
We use a Cessna 206 which is probably the second most popular plane used for skydiving (the most popular is the smaller model the Cessna 182). We have kitted out the aircraft as much
as possible specifically for a skydiving operation.
The maintenance of our aircraft is carried out by professional engineers that are overseen by a maintenance management team with over 30 years of experience and a plethora of
internationally recognised aircraft maintenance licences. Our aircraft undergoes periodic inspections every 60 days or 50 hours flying whichever comes up first. (This is likely to be twice as
strict as other countries).
We use specially designed tandem parachute systems that have undergone stringent testing in order to be released for sale. The tandem containers have 2 parachutes in them, a main
parachute and a reserve or backup parachute. All our equipment is checked at every main parachute pack and our reserves are opened, aired, checked and repacked at the recommended
re-pack cycle times.
We predominately use an A2 389 main canopy, which we have found to be the best option of all the main canopies that we have tested and used over the years. These are ideal for our
conditions and provide excellent soft landings consistently. All our tandem systems have functional automatic opening devices that are turned on for every jump and are automatically primed
to open the reserve parachute at 2000ft above the ground if falling faster than 78mph when reaching 2000ft.
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