Adventure-filled vacation – training to become a skydiver or a course for prospective parachute reconnaissance officers (SPHAIR)

On your first jump with a Tandem Master you will see the airport of Locarno from a birds view. Together with an experienced Tandem Instructor you will get a chance to enjoy your first jump in the AFF-Training, but you will perform some pre-trained tasks. Our goal for the jump will be to demonstrate and execute flying the landing pattern as well as the landing of the parachute in a “dual-command”-mode. This will help you on your following jumps to get back and land safely on our landing aera.

What an emotional and exiting week-end. Two jumps –one Tandem as a «warm-up» followed by some serious training for your first AFF-level 1 jump the next day. The training is intensiv and will give you all you need to safely not only perform in freefall but also to deploy, fly and land your parachute.

Skydiving courses organized by the Swiss Air Force, so called SPHAIR courses, (SPHAIR >> Exploring Aviation Talent) are meant for young Swiss, 16-18 years, to get their license before their military service in a special forces unit, the «Fallschirmaufklärer Kp 17».

After the basic course you can complete the further training jumps whenever we have jump activity. In the training program there are several tests defined which you have to pass to reach the next level of training. At least 40 jumps and the theoretical exam are required to be admitted to the practical exam.

In one week you will learn the basics of skydiving! Your training will also start with a Tandem-jump as described above followed by 7 AFF-levels (Accelerated Free Fall). During the course you will get the basic knowledge so that you can successfully achieve all necessary  skill-tests and continue jumping on your way to obtain your skydiving license.
While taking the AFF-course you will have 2 instructors jumping with you on jump # 1 – 4 and one instructor during jump # 5 – 7.