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USPA’s Be Aware Share the Air Campaign is an attempt to help all pilots identify and avoid active parachute locations. USPA Group Members will receive a copy of both posters with their 2024 Group Membership renewal packet. DZOs, Jumpers, and Pilots are encouraged to print off extra copies and place around their airport, local FBOs, or flights schools.
Be Aware Share the Air Flyer (PDF)Be Aware Share the Air Flyer (Large 16x20 PDF)Skydiver Hood Ornament (JPG)Skydiver Hood Ornament (Large 16x20 PDF)
Drop zones can get positive media coverage by inviting local news outlets to attend DZ events and by providing information about the sport and the drop zone. DZs can tailor these template materials with their own information.
Review applicable regulations for conducting parachute operations, see historical and current FAA guidance and read about airport access. Also available are FAA Advisory Circulars “Recommended Standard Traffic Patterns and Practices for Aeronautical Operations at Airports without Operating Control Towers” and “Sport Parachuting,” along with the FAA regulatory requirements for ATC Notification and Authorization and FAA inspector guidance for DZs.
In Plenary, 23 July 2017
Expressing the position of the United States Parachute Association with regards to “indoor skydiving” and delineating the role of the Association going forward.
WHEREAS, the International Parachuting Commission created a Class G airsport called “indoor skydiving” at its 2014 plenary meeting, and;
WHEREAS, such “indoor skydiving” exists solely within vertical wind tunnels, and;
WHEREAS, such tunnel flight fails to meet the USPA definition of skydiving, and;
WHEREAS, the membership of the Association has made its collective opinion known to the Directors through various informal methods, and;
WHEREAS, the participants in tunnel flying currently lack a National Governing Body to represent their interests on the national and international level,
THEREFORE be it RESOLVED that:
Effective 1 November 2017, the United States Parachute Association will not use Association resources to support the sport of “indoor skydiving,” except to nominate International Judges to such IPC events as appropriate. USPA will seek to encourage, foster, and cooperate with any emerging national governing body for tunnel flying.
Approved 19/0/0 (3 absent)
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