Scuola Paracadutismo di Ferrara

The Ferrara Parachuting School was founded in 1972 and boasts many years of uninterrupted activity spent in the solid and careful preparation of future parachutists.

Guided in training at a competitive level in the different specialties (Style, Precision, Relative Work, Canopy, >Skysurf, Free Style, Vertical Relative Work and Freefly), students are followed until they obtain the Ministerial License. Each flight is carried out using a Cessna206 aircraft, which reaches a launch altitude of between 3,000 and 4,500 metres.

The jumps are generally concentrated on holidays and during the weekend, during daylight hours, from 8.00 am to sunset.

The center offers courses and jumps for all levels:

• Tandem. Due to the total safety with which it is performed, the tandem jump is suitable for beginners. After a quick theoretical introduction, you will board the plane. Once on board the helicopter, you will be equipped with the necessary equipment and harnessed to an instructor. Once you reach a height of approximately 3000 metres, you will launch. You will fall in free fall to a height of 1400 meters above the ground at a speed of 200 km/h. Only at this point will the teacher open his parachute and you will begin the landing. The adrenaline of the descent will be replaced by the wonder of the view of Ferrara from above.

• Course with constraint rope. This is a traditional method, carried out with an automatically opening parachute. The course has a total duration of two weeks; It consists of eight theoretical lessons of basic preparation and practice on the ground, followed by the first jumps at an altitude of 1,200 meters above sea level.

During this first phase, the staff and instructors follow the parachutist via radio, supporting him with the necessary indications until they lead him to landing.

The complete course includes 8 launches, which lead the student, following an appropriate evaluation by the instructor, to carry out the first launches independently. At the end of the course and with the appropriate tests, the aspiring parachutist will be able to obtain the license.