Winter Skydiving

Well, it's Michigan and Winter has arrived.  Winter means that we have suspended Tandem and Student  training skydiving at Hastings, Michigan.

Once the weather gets too cold, fewer people want to come out and make their first skydive and it becomes difficult to coordinate those few hardy folks that do with pilots, instructors, and support staff.  We will open again in the Spring, usually by the middle of April, for full skydiving operations!

We do offer Skydive Gift Certificates throughout the Winter season (or anytime) which are the perfect "unique" gift for the daredevil on your Christmas list.

Give us a call anytime at (269) 998-7747 to order your Skydive Gift Certificate in time for the holidays.  Skydive Gift Certificates can be ordered in any denomination and for any skydiving service that we offer!

For more information on Skydiving in Michigan, you can visit us here:  www.SkydiveInc.com

Skydive Grand Rapids!

We had a representative from Rapid Growth Media,  come to our facility this summer to check us out.  Rapid Growth is a weekly e-magazine and web site devoted to showcasing the positive and sustained transformation of the greater Grand Rapids region. 

Here is the link to the story they did:

10,000 feet above West Michigan

Blind Skydiving!

If you find the thought of skydiving scary; try doing it blind!  We had a group from the Michigan Commision for the Blind Training School out of Kalamzoo Michigan come out and nine of them made their first skydives!  It was great and everybody involved had a fantastic time.  The ages ranged from 21 to 79 and also included one double amputee.  It was a huge confidence builder for the group.

If you can skydive blind, you can do anything!

Article on Blind Skydiving at Hastings Michigan.

Sign up for the USPA Solo Challenge

Why don’t you take the United States Parachute Association (USPA) Solo Challenge? It’s a pretty simple challenge, but it will change your life. Very simply, why don’t you make it a goal to make a solo freefall? After you make your first Tandem, it’s only four jumps away! With one more training Tandem jump, and a Ground School Course, you will be ready to make a solo student jump! After three Instructor Assisted Deployment jumps, you will be ready for your first solo freefall! It’s not as daunting as you think. You’ll still be under the direct supervision of an instructor and you’ll still receive parachute steering assistance from the ground, but you will have shown that you have what it takes to exit an airplane then deploy and steer your own parachute safely to the ground.

Are you up for the USPA Solo Challenge? It's simple to get started.

Just call Skydive Inc. to get more information on our Student Training Program and how you can get to your first solo freefall. Our number is: (269) 998-7747. We will get you registered with USPA and make you eligible for the First Freefall Challenge!

Student Day

Not only have we been having great success in bringing in first time jumpers with our Tandem Program, we have also seen a large increase in the amount of people interested in continuing on past that first jump and going through our student program.

With our progression training, your first Tandem jump counts towards your United States Parachute Association (USPA) "A" license requirements. We utilize the Tandem skydive as an initial instructional tool to prepare you for your first solo student jump.

With the increase in jumpers going through our student program we decided to set up a special student day where our staff could get together with our students and work with them one-on-one without the distractions of the normal drop zone operations to deal with. This allowed us to focus on just the students and their proficiency skills and allowed the students to jump several times and advance more quickly.

The evening was a great success! The weather was perfect all evening and we had a half dozen students show up to jump. We had a couple of students working on their freefall skills, several working their way through their Instructor Assisted Deployment (IAD) jumps and practicing their pilot chute deployments, and one who finally had the opportunity to make his first solo student jump!

Congratulations to all the students who came out and jumped and many thanks to the Skydive Inc. staff that showed up to make it happen.

Wednesday Jumping

Wednesday jumping went really well despite dodging weather most of the day. We started at 9:00a and jumped all day with a large group of ER professionals who came out equipped with matching t-shirts, diapers, and a great attitude.

We dodged clouds, hail, and rain but we got all of them up to make their first skydives! A fun time was had by all.

We did some experienced jumping at the end of the day and Travis made his 200th jump and his first wingsuit jump! Nice job.

First Skydive.

I always find it both exciting and fascinating when I stumble upon something on the internet that someone else has posted about their skydiving experience with us.

I find it exciting that someone found their experience with us so incredible that they take the time to share it online and I find it fascinating to hear how other people view their skydiving experience.

Here's a blog entry from someone who came out a couple of weeks ago and made a skydive with us.


If anybody else comes across anything on the web about us, let me know!