You exit a turbine aircraft at altitude, fall belly-to-earth at terminal velocity, then fly your body and canopy back to a target you choose.
The world's largest dropzone: 360 jumpable days, a giant turbine fleet, and the desert where big-way world records are set and national teams come to train.
Living sceneMeccaGold credentialRecord holderEurope's busiest dropzone, where you free-fall over the Mediterranean coastline at a center that has trained world-champion teams from a dozen nations.
Living sceneMeccaRecord holderA Southern California institution with an on-site tunnel and a constant calendar of boogies and record attempts that pulls in the sport's best.
Living sceneMeccaRecord holderExit over the Lauterbrunnen valley with the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau filling the horizon: the most scenic jump in the Alps and a magnet for serious sky athletes.
Living sceneMeccaI'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.
If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.
This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.