This page will give you information about the facilities of
SkydiveRatings – the school
Skydive City – the dropzone
Zephyrhills – the town
SkydiveRatings Facilities
SkydiveRatings has their campus at Skydive City, one of Florida’s friendliest dropzones, in Zephyrhills, Florida.We own our building which was put up in August of 2010. It is clean, light and comfortable, situated in the bunker which serves as the training area at the dropzone.
We are proud of our building with 2 nice light classrooms. We want you to feel right at home while you are with us.The refrigerator is filled with bottled water and if you want to keep your food/drinks cold it is available to you.
The smaller of the 2 class rooms is office and debriefing room.
Here are some images of our facilities being used during the courses.
We have built several training aids that we introduce during our courses.
We either let you use them in your ground preps so you learn how to use training aids properly or we use them ourselves like the hanging harness in the Tandem rating courses.
Facilities at Skydive City
- Full time turbine aircraft and a C182 for swooping
- competition size swooping pond
- large landing area
- camping: tent area, electric only RV slots and full hook-up RV slots (make reservations for RV!)
- Large shower house with showers, restrooms and wash basins.
- laundry facility with 2 washers and dryers
- nice back deck overlooking the landing area
- City Hall: lounge area with big screen HDTV
- “Jerry” Bird House with packing area and the Sunset Bar with Tiki bar and fire pit outside and public computer
- Hard Dock cafe with breakfast and lunch menu, snacks,drinks and most evenings dinner items as well
- Sunshine Factory : full service gear store serving skydivers for over 20 years.
- Paragone rigging loft
- Nylon City packing services
- Judy Redvers packing services and trailer rent
- East Coast Freefly school by Martin Skrypczak and friends
- Total Body Pilot freefly school by Pip Redvers
- Wingsuit school for advanced and first flights
- SkydiveRatings full time instructional rating school
- trailer rent – full hook ups- by trailers@skydivecity.com
- trailer rent electric only by pipandjudy@yahoo.com
- Skydive City’s Exclusive Airport Shuttle Service
Provided by Jerry Bird
Call or text 813-783-4696
answer machine 352-567-5252
Zephyrhills info
Motels
All motels are situated on the major highway running through town Hwy. 301 /Gall Blvd. Ask for special skydiver rates.
Microtel, 7839 Gall Blvd. 813-783-2211
Quality Inn and Suites, 6815 Gall Blvd. 813-762-2000
Magnuson Hotel, 5734 Gall Blvd. 813-782-5527
Fitness
The Local Gym: 24/7 access. Temporary membership and day passes available.
address: 5939 Gall Blvd, Zephyrhils 813-782-4900 Staffed hours: monday through friday 10 am – 8 pm
Visit www.thelocalgym.com to print a free day guest pass
Restaurants
All major fast food chains are located alongside Gall Blvd. (Highway 301)
Chili’s : Located on Gall Blvd by Super Walmart
Ruby Tuesday: Just past Walmart on Gall Blvd.
Mexican: Los Chicos, 38300 11th Avenue
Chinese buffet: On corner of highway 301 and CR 54 behind CVS
Golden Corral: American buffet 6855 Gall Blvd 813-783-8969
Kafe Kokopelli dining in historic Dade City 352-523-0055
