skydive minnesota

I had a great time jumping with these guys. I did my first tandem jump in June 2012, and I will defiantly be going back.

I went skydiving with my family here yesterday. As a party of six, it took 3.5 hours for us to complete our skydive. The organization is located at Milaca Airport. There is clear signage and directions, so we had no problem finding the place. The service was very friendly and everything was clearly explained to us. We started by filling out paperwork, including getting to choose four songs to accompany our video of the skydive (note: pictures and video cost extra.) As this organization is smaller, we had to go in groups of two to skydive as that is all the plane could accomodate. This caused a lot of downtime between jumps. The advantage of this was that we got to see each pair of family members come down from the air rather than all going at once. The pilot would radio down when there was two minutes to the jump and then the rest of us were able to make the short walk (2 min.) to the landing spot. They did not mind us taking our own video and pictures. The best part of the experience was being able to interact with the staff. The instructors were very, very friendly. They made everyone in my party feel relaxed and excited for the jump. They were very experienced (my pilot had over 4,000 jumps under his belt) and was very patient with me. I felt very confident that they would be able to handle any complication that might arise. At the end, you receive a "First Jump" Certificate which was a nice touch. Things to be aware of and to consider: book a flight for early morning so that it can be rescheduled sooner in case of bad wind conditions. Know that they they strictly enforced the 235 lb. weight limit due to safety issues, also they have several indoor dogs in the office area as a caution to those with allergies. Finally, the one annoying part of the experience was that we had to re-land the airplane once because the camera was out of battery and then take-off again. Also, one of the pilots filmed my dad's landing with the lens cap on the video camera.

If you want to skydive, I would really go somewhere else. The service here is pretty slow and the staff are not all that friendly. There is only 1 biffy in the parking lot and it was pretty disgusting. There's no food avaiable so you have to go into town to get some thing to eat.