Tandem Skydive in Virginia in the Northern Virginia Region (Orange, VA 22960)- thousands of tandem freefall and AFF skydiving certification skydives are made every year at Skydive Orange, Virginia. Tandem Skydiving parachute jumps are the most popular first jumps. Although most first time skydivers start with Tandem first jumps, our skydiving instructors will help you learn to skydive whether you start with tandem skydiving or AFF.

The Skydive Orange parachute club is a US Parachute Association affiliated parachute center open since the late 1970′s. We make over 18,000 freefall parachute jumps annually at Skydive Orange. Serving Virginia Tech, Richmond, NOVA, Baltimore, MD, VA at the only Washington DC skydiving center equipped with a 22-jumper airplane. Many experienced skydivers attend the events listed in this EVENTS CALENDAR, making skydiving in Virginia a way of life with thousands of freefall skydives after going through the most comprehensive Skydiving Certification Program on the East coast. Though this web page is oriented towards student skydivers, we welcome both new and experienced jumpers to our humble little drop zone to join our strange little family of skydivers. We’ve had skydiving teams with members from Rockville, Potomac and Baltimore Maryland Skydive with us.

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Our flying season is best from September through to April but some days are better than others. We prefer days when there is a light breeze and there are fluffy cumulus clouds around since they indicate the presence of up draughts (thermals) that can allow us to climb up.

We normally operate on weekends and public holidays, but can also offer flights mid week by arrangement. All flights are subject to the availability of suitable weather conditions, gliders and instructors. Generally the best time to fly is between 12:00 midday and around 3:00 pm although you can get good flights outside these times depending on the weather.

For Air Experience flights the cost is $70 plus $2.00 per minute. Depending on the availability of up draughts to keep the glider up, our usual fight is around 30 min, but we can stay up for longer if our passenger wishes to do so and weather conditions are suitable. Without updraughts the flight time is around 8 min.

If you want to take a motor glider flight, the cost is $80 plus $2.50 per minute of flight time. The motor gliders are not dependent on updraughts to get a long flight.

We can also offer Gift certificates for $130. This is for a 30 min Glider flight (or 2 flights if there are no thermals to keep us up). If required, and a motor glider is available, this may be changed to a motor glider flight on the day you fly. We can email the Gift Certificate to you to print on your high quality colour printer or post it to you for a printing and postage fee of $5.00 if you supply your postal address. If a longer flight is required, time beyond 30 min costs $2 per min for the glider gift certificate and $2.50 per min for the motor glider. Any extra time can be paid after the completion of the flight.

Unfortunately, being a small club, we do not have credit card facilities. If you want a Gift Certificate please contact us by email or phone (0418 377 146 or 0417 565 514) and then deposit the funds into our bank account, details of which will be advised when you contact us.

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