We welcome Skydive Croatia as new USPA affiliated DZ and we are happy to be able to conduct a USPA Instructor Course at this new DZ. Their hospitality was amazing friendly and they worked hard on the USPA training syllabus and regulations. After a week of intensive training and sometimes instable weather, we were able to complete the mission and are proud to present five new USPA Coaches and SL instructors:

– Aldo Giergia / – Angelo Vuletic / – Grgo Miocic / – Mladen Juricic / – Zeljko Opacic

We are happy to see Olga Naumova back in Greece, at least for one weekend. Olga has started her AFF Instructor Course a few months ago and has now decided to continue on her USPA Evaluations. She did a great job and we are pleased to congratulate her for becoming a new USPA AFF instructor. Well done, girl. All the best to you for the upcoming student jumps!

… and sharing experiences and expertise between fellow I/E’s. It was nice meeting Bram Clement and his skydiveratings.com school in Z-Hills (Skydive City) and have a chat before heading back home. Thanks for your time and see you again next time! We had a really good visit!

During the scope of our USA Tour for the PIA Symposium, we have also visited Skydive Deland in Florida. This is one of the biggest DZs in the southern US and popular for the settling of many manufacturer in one area, such as PD, UPT, Mirage etc. Its great to see the other side of the sport and the background of the material production we use while skydiving.

As every year, we have participated in the anual AFF Standarization Meeting hosted by the USPA. This year it took place during the PIA Symposium at Daytona Beach in Florida. All AFF Instructor Examiner and the USPA Board of Directors came together to discuss current safety issues and standards on the AFF training. It is always nice to see fellow colleagues and Examiners to exchange experiences and knowledge. Thanks for organizing that!

We are again pleased by the visit of our Spanish Coaches and friends Julio and Oscar who travelled to Greece in order to complete their AFF evaluations. Having started the course in January, the weather unfortunately did not allow to perform all the needed evaluation tasks. This weekend, the skies were blue and we are proud to present Oscar as new USPA AFF Instructor. Congratulations to you and all the best with your future work as skydive instructor. Thanks to you all for your visit and thanks to GFFC for their hospitality!

In collaboration with the Greek Freefall Club (GFFC), we are pleased to have hosted the anual USPA Safety Day 2013 in Athens and were really happy to see more then 60 participants and skydivers joining. As every year, the Safety Day is organized to inform about safety aspects in the sport, such as rigging and maintenance of equipment, plane and exit procedures, canopy or formation skills or any other discipline – the event was rounded up with refreshments, catering and Tshirts for all. Thanks to all for joining and stay safe everyone! Safety first!

Our stay at Skydive Spain DZ has been completed with a AFF Instructor Rating Course. All participants were eager to complete their evaluation briefings and in-air tasks, but only two candidates succeeded. Congratulations to Arvid (Sweden) and to Giorgio (Italy) for passing their evals and for becoming the new USPA AFF instructors. Congrats and lots of fun with your upcoming students!

We thank you all for booking yourself into our school and thanks to the entire team of Skydive Spain for the – as always – great hospitality (especially Peter for the evaluator assistance and Iwan for the videos). We will be back!!

Despite the challanging weather in southern Spain, we were able to complete the evaluation of all USPA Coach Rating Course candidates and are happy to prounounce another three new USPA Coaches: Giorgio (Italy), Emily (UK) and Roser (Spain) did all very well! Congratulations and thanks for joining!

We are once more back at Skydive Spain, in the beautiful area of Sevilla in Andalucia, in order to run a Coach Rating Course and AFF Instructor Course back to back. Despite the unkind weather we were able to complete the first three candidates and present you the new born USPA Coaches: Alberto (Spain), Ignacio (Spain) and Dorin (Romania). Congratulations to you three and have fun with your upcoming Coaching jumps!