Skydiving Tracy

Bay Area Skydiving, the San francisco Bay Area's choice for skydiving. When Making an AFF Skydive The student exits the aircraft with two USPA AFF Instructors. Finding a good skydiving school might be a great first step. You should first investigate very well the school you want to atend. A great thing about skydiving schools is that most of them offer first jump opportunities. Though this web site is oriented towards first time skydivers, we welcome both new and experienced jumpers to our little drop zone. Skydiving Competitions began to develop and gain acceptance among the international air sports after World war II. The three most common tandem skydiving systems in use are the Strong Dual Hawk and United Parachute Technologies Sigma Tandem. People have been using parachutes for hundreds of years, even back to China in the 1100s. Around 1495, Leonardo DaVinci designed a pyramid-shaped, wooden framed parachute. Parachuting has complex skills that can take thousands of jumps to master, but the basics are often fully understood and useful during the first few jumps. Tiny Broadwick, another professional parachutist in the U.S., became the first woman to jump from an airplane in 1913 and the first to make a freefall in 1914. We have a Beechcraft King Air A90 as out primary skydiving plane. Only the most highly trained, professional, USPA certified instructors teach at Bay Area Skydiving.