Skydiving Des Moines

First Skydive

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Your Tandem Skydive

Tandem Skydive

Tandem Skydiving is where it's at!

Many first time jumpers select tandem skydives for their first jumps. Tandems are easy, safe, exciting, and you don't have to spend a lot of time learning how to jump!

You just go for it!

Securely harnessed to your skydiving instructor, you are free to simply enjoy your Iowa Skydive.

Experience total exhilaration while freefalling through the fathomless sky at 120mph!

Then, after your parachute opens, ride a sea of tranquility as you gently drift through the sky, soaking up the panoramic view of a lifetime.

Tandem skydives are available 7-days a week, 365 days a year. Allow 2 to 3 hours for your Iowa Skydive.

Tame the Skies!

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AFF skydiving

Opting for Your Accelerated Freefall

Some first time jumpers decide to slice the sky a slightly different way. They take the Accelerated Freefall (AFF) approach.

During your first AFF jump, you are not bound to another person. After taking a short class, you jump along with two master skydivers who ensure your safety while making certain you enjoy the ultimate first jump experience!

AFF is your fast track to learning to skydive. It is a 7-stage program, allowing you to experience freefall on every jump. Our equipment, facilities, and instructors make Des Moines Skydiving the school-of-choice for skydiving enthusiasts wishing to make a Iowa skydive.

Learn from the Best!

For your AFF training, choose Des Moines Skydiving!

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AFF Training consists of the following:

Stage 1

Training:

• Approximately 5-hours of ground training
• Jump with 2 instructors

Objectives:

• stable body position
• altitude awareness
• parachute activation
• radio assisted landing

Stage 2
Training:

• ground training
• body awareness
• jump with 2 instructors

Objectives:

• stable body relaxation
• pilot chute throw
• turning techniques
• radio assisted landing

Stage 3
Training:

• hover control
• holding a direction
• jump with 2 instructors

Objectives:

• balanced body position
• hover control
• hold heading
• radio assisted landing

Stage 4
Training:

• consolidation of previous levels
• repeat of stage 3
• depending on progress, jump with 1 or 2 instructors and with or without radio assisted landing

Stage 5
Training:

• turn
• jump with 1 instructor

Objectives:

• linked or unlinked freefall
• 360 degree turns

Stage 6
Training:

• consolidation
• repeat of stage 5
• forward movement
• jump with 1 instructor

Objectives:

• consolidate progress
• achieve forward movement

Stage 7
Training:

• backloops
• tracking
• jump with 1 instructor

Objectives:

• dive exit
• backloops
• 180-degree turn
• delta
• flare
• wave off