Skydiving Spain - Military jumping in Southern Spain


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Military

Skydive Spain is the ideal dropzone to take large military groups for quick progression. We cater for the static line RAPS course as well as Accelerated Freefall (AFF). Depending on the size of the group we can draft in extra instructors and equipment. Equally, we are also happy to provide aircraft and facilities and let you take care of the training.

We also have experience of training people after their basic qualifications to a high standard. The Pakistani Navy Seals sent a group of 8 jumpers to our sister dropzone in England, Target Skysports. After spending 3 months of intensive training we took them from 0 jumps to an active parachute display team.

Why jump at Skydive Spain

Our fast turn around turbines have a large lift capacity enabling quick progression of your students. Lastly our instructors are trained to British Parachute Association standards, arguably the strictest in the world. Contact the dropzone for more information.

4	Fast turnaround turbine aircraft. See our facilities
4	Highest altitude in Spain, 15,000ft
4	British Parachute Association trained instructors
4	Huge dropzone and landing area, ideal for students
4	Consistently good weather, no lengthy cold or windy periods of time like other Spanish dropzones
4	Experience in dealing with large groups and military groups

August 2007

2PARA, organised by Adam Wilson came to Skydive Spain at the beginning of August. The exped had arranged BPA Instructors John Horne and Dick Kalinski to take 5 on the AFF course. Adam got some FF coaching and Chris took the FS1 Course. See more of their experiences on their page here

July 2007

An RAF Exped of 6 joined us for the AFF course this month. They quickly progressed through the course, with 4 of the 6 completing the first 6 levels by the end of the second days jumping and doing their level 8 - Hop 'n' Pop on day 3. Follow this link to read more of their experiences.

March 2007

For 2-weeks in March, a group of 12 RAF organised by Daz Thomas arrived at the dropzone. With 10 enrolled on the AFF Course, and two Experienced jumpers for Freeflying and fun jumps. All 10 successfully passing the AFF Course before completing their consolidation jumps, including some comedy exits.

November 2006

Paul Moore brought a group of his staff from RAPA in Germany for some training. An advance party of two arrived on the 9th with most others arriving on the 10th. Averaging around 5 jumps a day they have been achieving a lot. With such a large group, it is hard to find accommodation to suit them. Luckily they all stayed in the Gines house near the dropzone. It has 8 rooms all en-suite!

October 2006

In October a group of 9 AFF students organised by Richard Lewis came to Skydive Spain. They came from the 13th to 28th October. All the students completed Levels 1 - 8 in 3.5 jumping days. Congratulations to Rich Lewis, Rick Harrap, Robbie Mullany, Katie White, Dean Medhurst, David Graham, Louise Buxton & Jon Purchase. 4 of the group also returned to the dropzone in November to complete their consolidation jumps.

We hope to see you all again soon for a re-match in the pump bar!!

August 2006

RAF under the leadership of Duncan McGregor.

Silver Stars Exped April 2006

During April, Aron Jones and Steve Jelf brought out the Silver Stars display team for some pre-season training. They practiced CREW, flag jumps, 4-way and 8-way. In addition, Ian Cashman, Adele Murray and Dean Hoskins trained a group of 7 AFF students.

Thanks to all you guys and we hope to see you soon.

RAPA Exped January - February 2006

The 6 RAPA guys have left Skydive Spain today and completed a total of 251 skydives during their trip. Mike Gouldstone and John Bishop left a week earlier due to Military commitments but not before Mike had completed the AFF levels needed and most of his consolidation jumps.

4-way training with Paul, Opi, Iain and Stu continued and the guys also enjoyed some Canopy coaching from Brian Vacher of SafeFlight School and Iain and Stu some Freefly coaching from Jim Harris of Space Freefly School.

Paul, Iain and Stu also spent half a day doing the Birdman ground school with instructor Alex Thomson and all completed their first wingsuit jump and many more. It was a pleasure to have all of you on the DZ and we hope to see you again soon. See the photos below:

Pre-season RAPA group 24th January - 7th February 2006

A group from Bad Lippspringe have arrived at Skydive Spain on the afternoon of Tuesday January 24th for some pre-season 4way training and a bit of AFF.

Paul Moore the Commandant at JSPC, Lippspring is doing 4-way with his CCI Dave (Opi) Openshaw, Stuart Storey and Iain Anderson.

Mike Gouldstone, Commanding Officer of Adventurous Training Group of Germany has been participating in AFF Level 4 onwards with instructor John Bishop.

Photos from the Greek Paras 15 December 2005

We recently had a jumper called George come over from the UK. He serves with the Greek Paras and is currently based in the UK. During his time at Skydive Spain he completed Accelerated Freefall levels 1 to 8 and his consolidation jumps in 3 days!

Photos from the RAF Exped 8 -18 October 2005

Some dropzones simply put an advertisement on their website claiming to support military training with no experience. Skydive Spain has just finished running an Accelerated Freefall course for the RAF during October. Six AFF students and seven experienced jumpers took advantage of the Spanish sunshine to take up skydiving. Ian Cashman led the RAF group (ex-national Army 4-way team member) providing his experience as their BPA Advanced Instructor. Duncan McGregor put work in to organise his group with our dropzone.

Some of the groups photos are listed below.