WARNING: SKYDIVING IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!

Skydive Hawaii offers this program to teach skydiving to non-skydivers. Our Freefall School will teach you the skills required to become a member of the skydiving community. The Freefall School First Jump Course, "FJC", is taught on Sunday mornings starting at 8:30 A.M. Arrangements can be made for groups to take the FJC at other times. The FJC consists of about 3-4 hours of ground school followed by your first skydive, weather permitting. Skydive Hawaii uses videos for training aids and we will be glad to let you view them. Students receive private lessons for each skydive. 

The Freefall School is an 8-level program. Levels 1, 2, & 3 are conducted in the tandem environment. These skydives concentrate on teaching basic safety skills such as altitude awareness, body position, canopy control, landing procedures, stability during freefall and during the pull sequence, and most importantly - successful ripcord pull. One tandem/jumpmaster will accompany the student on each skydive to provide instruction in freefall and assist the student with landing.  

Tandem jumps are used in the first three levels to avoid needless landing injuries to the student.  While the student steers and lands the parachute, the jumpmaster is there to assist.  Solo jumping and canopy control builds from the "hands on" tandem experience, transitioning at lowest risk to the student.

Levels 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 requires one freefall Jumpmaster, and teaches the student air skills such as turns, forward movement and docking on other people, front loops, back loops, superman, exits from the plane, etc. Before the level 4 jump, the student must attend the Assisted Class, held every Saturday at 8:30am, which consists of 3 - 4 hours of classroom and hands on training. In Levels 4 - 8, the student wears the parachute system. Each level is designed to take one skydive, and requires about 45 minutes of training, other than classroom time. 

Successful performance of the objectives of each level, moves the student on to the next level. The student has up to 60 days to complete the Freefall School. Levels that require the student to re-jump, due to not meeting the targeted learning objectives, are charged $125 per skydive. After graduating Level 8, the student enters a coaching stage where they practice and hone their skills under the supervision of their coach, until they obtain 20 skydives and qualify for their "A" license. Obtaining the "A" license takes the jumper off student status.  Coaching jumps are $89 per skydive and includes the parachute equipment, jump costs, and coach.  Once you own your own gear (student parachute rental cost is $28), jumps will cost you $20. 

Our Freefall School graduates have advanced through the best program available to Dillingham Airfield skydiving at this time. Students must be over the age of eighteen and weigh less than 200 pounds. Most students finish the course in two weekends to a month depending on how much time the student puts into it and weather conditions.

The Freefall School costs $1,400.00.  Until December 28, 2007 - show your valid US military ID when paying for Freefall School and receive a $300 discount 

Want in our next class? Go to Skydive Hawaii reservations.  
Got more questions?  Go to contacting Skydive Hawaii. 

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CURRENCY REQUIREMENTS

STUDENTS: All students who have not jumped in 30 days or more should receive refresher training AND Make at least one jump in which they demonstrate the ability to start and stop turns, maintain altitude awareness, the ability to maintain stability during deployment, and demonstrate controlled canopy descent and landing under the direct supervision of an AFF Instructor. This is a Level IV AFF jump – this will apply to non-current students who successfully completed Level IV or higher.  Students on lower levels, will repeat their most recent skydive. A-LICENSE: A License holders who have not made a skydive in the preceding 60 days or more should receive refresher training AND Make at least one jump under the direct supervision of an AFF Instructor to demonstrate the ability to start and stop turns and maintain altitude awareness and stability during deployment.      AND Make at least one solo jump under the supervision of an AFF Instructor to demonstrate awareness both in freefall as well as under canopy and show sufficient skill for safely jumping in groups. B-LICENSE: B License holders who have not made a skydive in the preceding 90 days or more should receive refresher training AND Make at least one jump under the direct supervision of an AFF Instructor to demonstrate the ability to safely exercise the privileges of that license. C-LICENSE: C License holders who have not made a skydive in the preceding 120 days or more should receive refresher training AND Make at least one jump under the direct supervision of an AFF Instructor to demonstrate the ability to safely exercise the privileges of that license. D-LICENSE: D License holders who have not made a skydive in the preceding 6 months or more should Make at least one jump under the direct supervision of an AFF Instructor to demonstrate the ability to safely exercise the privileges of that license.