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#Skydiving freefall time free
When you stay at the hotel and show your confirmation email you receive a free Skuumkoppe (Texel's famous local beer) and a ' bittergarnituur' serving (fried finger food) per night. The hotel offers simple, clean and very hospitable service, especially geared towards serving skydivers. The hotel is situated very close to the airport ideal for those looking for a cosy stay at Texel's lowest rates. Paracentrum Texel owns and operates it's own hotel where many of our students stay for the duration of their course. learning to spot) and for some a fee is charged, as with the one-on-one jumps (for when someone will jump with you for in-air instruction).Īn overview of items to get in order as soon as possible:Ī bit obvious maybe, but the first step is to enroll for the course itself. These more advanced skills are taught in mini-courses. One-on-one jumps (learn to jump with multiple jumpers).Low exit jumps (exit the airplane at low altitude).You don’t have to do your jumps together with an instructor anymore you’re jumping solo.īy this time your instructor will have explained the next steps to take on your road to the A-licence. This means that under supervision of an instructor you may now perform parachute jumps by yourself. Officially your status as a skydiver is now ‘Student – Aff graduated’. Your skydive career has officially started. Looking back the groundschool wasn’t all that hard, the tension that you experience when you exit the airplane is totally different now than on your first jump and the AFF course was the best you ever took part in.Ĭongratulations and welcome to the wonderful world of the sport parachutist.
During the skydive they will correct your body position and pay attention to every detail needed for a splendid jumpĮven when you fail to open your main parachute at the agreed altitude there is no problem the instructor will not let you freefall for one second longer than is safe and if needed will open your parachute for you.ĪFF is skydiving from the very first second!Īfter your square parachute has opened you’ll fly to the previously specified landing area on your own.Īfter your jump you’ll debrief with your primary instructor and you might even start preparing for your next jump.
They will guide you from the first to the last second of the freefall which will last about a minute. Your instructors will guide you during freefall which will last about one minute. Together with two instructors you’ll ascend to 13.000 ft (about 4 km). Weather permitting this will be on your second day of the course. After graduating your harnesstest we’ll take to the skies.
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