Welcome To Skydive Ratings

SkydiveRatings is owned and operated by Bram Clement.
We offer instructional rating courses for the USPA Coach, AFF, Static-Line, IAD and Tandem ratings, as well as the manufacturers tandem rating for United Parachute Technologies (Vector/Sigma), Strong and Racer. In addition we also offer the IE rating course. This course is required to become an IE in any USPA discipline. Besides the initial rating courses we also offer re-currency training for expired ratings. We like to work with smaller groups and a friendly atmosphere where learning can take place. A personal approach is important to us.

Our full time campus is located at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, FL. Our high season is during the winter months – October through April – when skydivers from all over the USA and the world visit us to get rated in one or more instructional ratings. During the summer months we have some availability to travel around, teaching our courses at other dropzones in the USA and Overseas. Our goal is to coach and train our customers so they can be succesfull in the course.



Aerodyne Research is a major designer, manufacturer, and distributor of some of the most technically advanced and highest-quality sport parachute systems in the world.

CYPRES was born as the result of a terrible accident, Helmut Cloth watched his best friend die during a skydiving mishap where a proper AAD could have made a difference.


Skydive Ratings main campus is located at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, Florida.  We have recently built a new classroom and

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Sigma course

Sigma Tandem rating course January 28-30, 2012

Steve Huffman from Kansas City and Luis Alvarez from Miami are here to work on the Sigma tandem rating.       First jump in the course is a tandem solo jump, followed by the first instructor jump. Before going up as instructor we practice the hookup procedures in the classroom.               …

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