USPA North Central Regional Director's Forum

04/28/2024

Please join me in congratulating all the new United States Parachute Association - USPA AFF instructors who crushed the certification course! What a great group of candidates! It was true pleasure working with all of you. Additionally I couldn’t have done it without all of the help from Nick Raines, Cory Andrews, Jake Till, & Allison Irion. Also a huge thank you to Hans Paulsen for the awesome hospitality!

02/26/2024

https://parachutist.com/Article/sunshine-state-summit-the-2024-winter-uspa-board-of-directors-meeting?fbclid=IwAR1-VC1FH30HKhXnWya_e4WNfdc_h500AuQOthE88WpRvKM-sGbobc_xOEY_aem_AZa9rSNgWNJ7BOXj7LApan_-az0e0iDjb8rumaZA1FCZIm29cX9wRCstXgnKU6GLPsM

Above: Photo by Nikko Mamallo. Skydive City Zephyrhills in Florida opened the manifest windows on Thursday, February 22, to find a long line already formed. USPA staff and board members soon descended upon the DZ’s registration forms, waivers and stash of pens with locust-like efficiency, and befo...

02/18/2024

https://www.uspa.org/Call-To-Action?fbclid=IwAR12kx23qfYds8nBqgta2TDR7h0baU0Va4IKprItMTvKm3vDTaZD35kd03k_aem_AQ6A-0Drn0JbEad01ceQm-kLEGDm71dNccgYp-bHtf-2jbD1Ffx1wVYbZGnJSsydYlA

USPA is requesting members contact their Congressional Representatives urging them to oppose harmful language in FAA Reauthorization. On February 8, the Senate Commerce Committee held the long-awaited markup of the Senate's draft FAA Reauthorization Bill. Unfortunately, Senator Budd's (NC) amendment...

02/17/2024

https://www.uspa.org/call-to-action/fbclid/iwar07gzciunzfrjyzkl1yi6g_1ptqjh89tlcsjfnae29_o1nm_g8gntlxcva_aem_aulrzhag_6qbnwffciddg26tt7nfjqrncu4586twx8wrt9i8kn473npnkfmaggefspa?

USPA is requesting members contact their Congressional Representatives urging them to oppose harmful language in FAA Reauthorization. On February 8, the Senate Commerce Committee held the long-awaited markup of the Senate's draft FAA Reauthorization Bill. Unfortunately, Senator Budd's (NC) amendment...

02/16/2024

Thursday, February 22 Southeast Regional Director Brandon Radcliff has arranged a three-round, 3-way speed star competition at Skydive City Zephyrhills. The event will pair a USPA Board member with two USPA members, scrambles-style. Any USPA member with an A license is invited to participate by arri...

02/16/2024

Reminder, if you would like to attend the "Stay Alive Practice Five" webinar tomorrow evening, register here: [https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_4lh4alsiSoaGMbbgSU10dw](https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4lh4alsiSoaGMbbgSU10dw?fbclid=IwAR3Olj8-8BkM0XW5sGC09yfqDjvry2eyIKjSylH43fxr61K8ehop8nr-ymk)
This is a webinar designed to help you present this topic at Safety Day 2024!

This year, Safety Day is on March 9 and the theme is Stay Alive, Practice Five! Will you be involved in educating other jumpers at your drop zone? Then we'd love to have you join us on February 16 for a webinar designed for the professional skydive community. The USPA Board of Director's Canopy Task...

02/15/2024

Get Your Applications in for this year's Instructor Rating Scholarships! The deadline is 9 March 2024.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kzg5m41yLufGdyDrZeEaIpnDUNhEl9Ja/view

02/06/2024

Get your nominations in… I know there are some very deserving skydivers at each drop zone that have earned this award…

04/27/2023

https://parachutist.com/Article/rating-corner-why-are-tandem-instructors-still-making-low-turns?fbclid=IwAR1cZ-cXdvSA9iO2VYWELH_R517yuDYZmvg9zHt0y0MW__s8u-0ELIv5acQ&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Over the last 24 years, 46 tandem skydiving deaths occurred in the United States. Of these, 12—more than a quarter—resulted from landing issues. Three were dust-devil related, but nine directly resulted from turns of more than 90 degrees below 500 feet: Five were planned turns and four were unpl...

04/02/2023

01/22/2023

NOMINATE A CHESLEY H. JUDY SAFETY AWARD RECIPIENT

Be sure to nominate a recipient for the Chesley H. Judy Safety Award as part of your Safety Day activities. Each year, the S&TA and drop zone owner selects a worthy recipient who, in the previous year through example, deed, training, or innovation, has promoted safety in a substantive way. USPA will provide at no charge a certificate suitable for framing with the name of the recipient and name of the drop zone to be presented on Safety Day. Nominations must be submitted no later than February 15.

The United States Parachute Association is a voluntary non-profit membership organization of over 40000 members worldwide who enjoy and support the sport through parachuting training, rating, and competition programs. USPA represents parachute jumping from aircraft and helps keep skydivers in the ai...