Skydiving is a recreational and competitive sport involving a preplanned drop from an airplane, helicopter, hot air balloon, or other type of aircraft. Drop Zone, or DZ, is the term used to describe an airport where skydiving takes place. A skydiver jumps from an aircraft and freefalls for a length of time before deploying a parachute, or canopy, to slow down for landing.
Despite the perception of danger, skydiving is safer than ever. Skydivers are required to carry a reserve canopy in case the main fails. Skydiving has several disciplines, including formation skydiving (Relative Work or RW), freeflying, canopy relative work (CRW), BASE jumping (Buildings Antennas, Spans, Earth), and big ways (formation skydiving with a large number of people). A tandem skydive is when a passenger is connected to an experience skydiver by a harness. The tandem master controls the whole jump. The passenger, however, does receive a small amount of training beforehand.
To skydive at any of the following locations in Iowa; you will want to contact them ahead of time to confirm availability and weather conditions. If you would like to find out more about these Drop Zones or understand the meaning of classes offered, aircrafts flown, or how it can change your life, email janet@liveactionsports.net.
Skydiving Locations:
Accelerated Free Fall Iowa
Info – Accelerated Free Fall of Iowa flies a Cessna 182. They offer tandem skydives as well as AFF and Static Line classes
Address – Boone Municipal Airport, Boone, IA
Phone – 515.291.4510
Des Moines Skydivers; aka the Couchfreaks
Info – The Des Moines Skydivers fly a Cessna 182 and a Cessna 206. They offer tandem skydives as well as AFF and Static Line classes
Address – Winterset–Madison County Airport, 3405 North 8th Avenue, Winterset, Iowa 50273-9804
Website – www.couchfreaks.com
Paradise Skydives
Info – Paradise Skydives flies a Cessna Caravan. They offer tandem skydives as well as AFF classes
Address – Vinton Veterans Memorial Airpark, 5551 24th Avenue Drive, Vinton, Iowa 52349
Phone – 319.472.4975 (1-800-SKYDIVE)
Website – www.paradise-skydives.com
Email – jay@paradise-skydives.com
Skydive Iowa
Info – Skydive Iowa flies a Cessna 182 and Cessna 206. They offer tandem skydives as well as AFF and Static Line classes
Address – 1922 US Highway 6, Brooklyn, Iowa 52211
Phone – 641.522.JUMP
Website – www.skydiveia.com
Organizations associated with skydiving include:
UPSA (United States Parachute Association)
www.uspa.org
Check out Skydive Radio at www.skydiveradio.com!
Keep jumpers jumping and support skydiver owned businesses by using www.supportskydivers.org!
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