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http://www.iflyglobal.net/locations.html http://www.iflyglobal.net/locations.html There are also ones in NC and two near LA. Granted to do one hour by yoursel

by base698 13y ago

http://www.iflyglobal.net/locations.html http://www.iflyglobal.net/locations.html There are also ones in NC and two near LA. Granted to do one hour by yourself is hard to do you can split it in 15 or 10 minute blocks, which was likely what he meant.

mrb 13y ago
Oh, I actually tried the iFLY location in Hollywood. But I only did 2 flights of 1 minute each(!) I did not remember they offered 60-minutes blocks of time. But at a price of $975 that is very steep... http://hollywood.iflyworld.com/flight-info/experienced-flyer http://hollywood.iflyworld.com/flight-info/experienced-flyer It sounded like Fuzzwah had cheaper access to wind tunnels.
- base698 13y ago
  I have friends that have spent $10K - $20K in a year on time and one friend that works at M$ and spends all of his disposable income on it. You can get time for $500 or $600 an hour after you're experienced and then split it with others in the bigger tunnels so you are all flying at once.
- Retric 13y ago
  Considering you get less than 2 min of free fall from a normal jump it's still cheaper and way safer for practicing stunts even at 1000$ an hour.
- Fuzzwah 13y ago
  Group buying a block of time drives down the price a bit, but much like everything else skydiving related; it is expensive. I've only got about 15 mins of tunnel time logged. I've done ~60 skydives and was lucky enough to be invited to tag along with a friend who had purchased a 30 min block at the skydive AZ tunnel. We'd been jumping together that day and I'd been struggling to fall as slow as other people in our group. They threw me into the tunnel and in the space of the 1st two minutes had taught me how to adjust my fall rate WAY better than I had been doing. Getting instant feedback on your body position dramatically shortens the learning curve. Compared to trying to get coaching during a normal skydive, even when debriefing with video; where you have to repack, manifest for another jump, take the ride to height and then try to implement the adjustments you'd been instructed about some 45 minutes prior. So yeah, "burning" ~$150 to get 5 mins of tunnel time seems expensive. I hadn't spent any of my own cash on it exactly because I thought it was too rich and I'd rather actually skydive. But now I see that investing that $150 to ensure I didn't waste another 4 or 5 jumps (~$200 including gear hire) learning to fall slower saved me a load of frustration and a bit of money. That's why I think the tunnel is an amazing learning tool. When you're in the tunnel there is no distractions, you're in there to learn and improve. When I skydive I'm still trying to learn and improve, but mostly I'm doing it for pure enjoyment of the experience of flying bigger formations.

by base698 13y ago

mrb 13y ago

Oh, I actually tried the iFLY location in Hollywood. But I only did 2 flights of 1 minute each(!) I did not remember they offered 60-minutes blocks of time. But at a price of $975 that is very steep... http://hollywood.iflyworld.com/flight-info/experienced-flyer http://hollywood.iflyworld.com/flight-info/experienced-flyer It sounded like Fuzzwah had cheaper access to wind tunnels.

base698 13y ago
I have friends that have spent $10K - $20K in a year on time and one friend that works at M$ and spends all of his disposable income on it. You can get time for $500 or $600 an hour after you're experienced and then split it with others in the bigger tunnels so you are all flying at once.
Retric 13y ago
Considering you get less than 2 min of free fall from a normal jump it's still cheaper and way safer for practicing stunts even at 1000$ an hour.
Fuzzwah 13y ago
Group buying a block of time drives down the price a bit, but much like everything else skydiving related; it is expensive. I've only got about 15 mins of tunnel time logged. I've done ~60 skydives and was lucky enough to be invited to tag along with a friend who had purchased a 30 min block at the skydive AZ tunnel. We'd been jumping together that day and I'd been struggling to fall as slow as other people in our group. They threw me into the tunnel and in the space of the 1st two minutes had taught me how to adjust my fall rate WAY better than I had been doing. Getting instant feedback on your body position dramatically shortens the learning curve. Compared to trying to get coaching during a normal skydive, even when debriefing with video; where you have to repack, manifest for another jump, take the ride to height and then try to implement the adjustments you'd been instructed about some 45 minutes prior. So yeah, "burning" ~$150 to get 5 mins of tunnel time seems expensive. I hadn't spent any of my own cash on it exactly because I thought it was too rich and I'd rather actually skydive. But now I see that investing that $150 to ensure I didn't waste another 4 or 5 jumps (~$200 including gear hire) learning to fall slower saved me a load of frustration and a bit of money. That's why I think the tunnel is an amazing learning tool. When you're in the tunnel there is no distractions, you're in there to learn and improve. When I skydive I'm still trying to learn and improve, but mostly I'm doing it for pure enjoyment of the experience of flying bigger formations.