Skydive Ratings

Congratulations to Skydive Europe’s AFF course!

elly — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:11:16 +0000

The AFF course in Portugal is finished and has resulted in 5 new USPA AFF Instructors.
Congratulations to “Frankie Freefly”, Ze Miguel Abreu, Andre Vasconcelos, Daniel Norte and Mauro Reimao. Also a big thank you to Vaclav Prokes , AFF IE from Czech Republic, for helping out with the course evaluations.

Sigma course february 19-21, 2012

elly — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:30:39 +0000

Ben is teaching the Sigma course this weekend. Mike Di Lisi and Kyle White from Canada are taking the course.
Class is done, passenger jumps are done and they are up doing their solo tandem mumps right now.


First instructor jump:

Coach rating course February 16 and 17, 2012

elly — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:24:07 +0000

Nadia Prescher, Nick Whitmer and Ben Belding took the Coach course with us.
Unfortunately we could only get 1 jump in with Nick on Saturday. The first course this winter
with weather issues

Congratulations with your AFF Instructor ratings!!

elly — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:17:12 +0000

Congratulations to Jules Mayne, Ozzie Dave, Josh Colby and Will McCarthy with their AFF ratings. You guys did an awesome job

Who has the best Mohawk???

elly — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:17:41 +0000

Let us know which mohawk is better:
Ben’s or Will’s

Coach and AFF course at Skydive Europe in Portugal feb13-24 2012

elly — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:01:07 +0000

On Saturday february 11 Bram started his trip to Portugal- to Skydive Europe – a brand new dropzone 150 km south of Lisbon.
Today Monday February 13 he started the first rating course: the USPA Coach course

Today, February 15 we finished the Coach course at Skydive Europe. Everyone was extremely well prepared and the staff here is awesome!

The AFF course is going really well. It looks like Skydive Europe is going to have 5 new AFF Instructors soon


The AFF course is going very well. We are working on the jumps :

Congratulations to Alisha and Tatjana with their Static-Line and IAD ratings

elly — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:21:08 +0000

Congratulations to Tatjana and Alisha with their IAD and Static-Line Instructor ratings. Well done girls!
SKYDIVING GIRLS ROCK!!

Congratulations David Wingard with your IAD and Static Line ratings

elly — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:51:23 +0000

Congratulations To David Wingard, this years apprentice at SkydiveRatings for earning his Static-Line and IAD Instructor ratings.

Sigma X training and re-currency training

elly — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:39:15 +0000

Be Lowe, one of our Tandem examiners started the Sigma X traing class this morning with Aleksandar Cvetkvic from Serbia and Bill Stroup is doing his recurrency training at the same time.

AFF course February 10-15, 2012

elly — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:30:18 +0000

This weeks AFF ratings course candidates are: Jules Mayne, David , Josh Colby, and Will McCarthy.
Bo came down to help teach the course and David Wingard is helping in the course as well.
The AFF Instructor on the very left is auditing the class to refresh the course materials