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(Review ID:5309)

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Great Friendly place to be

Rated by: Donboy_s14 on 2009-08-09 (user profile) (user reviews)

Review of: Hinton Skydiving Centre
Pros: Friendly professional staff
Cons: None

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I'm new to this sport and have not been to many dropzones yet but the welcome I got from Hinton was great. When I first returned from doing my AFF course abroad I went to Netheravon and was shocked by how awkward they where towards a new comer, Hinton however made me feel right at home and run through all my drills then let me get straight up in the air. Great place to be and felt like i was not treated as a newbie.

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(Review ID:3657)

9 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

A good alternative to Weston-on-the-green, decent place to jump

Rated by: robbie_g on 2007-01-25 (user profile) (user reviews)

Review of: Hinton Skydiving Centre
Pros: Good sized landing area, PAC is pretty quick, regular jumpers are friendly, great honesty bar, free camping
Cons: Seemingly strong upper winds - be aware, no bunkhouse, quite tandem focussed

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I've been to Hinton about fours times now, the first was when my girlfriend did her charity tandem. I got three jumps in that day, and enjoyed myself. However, the first descent I did I misjudged the wind and landed just off in the next field. I couldn't spot the gap in the hedgeline and had to pick my way through the bushes. And received a good ribbing for it afterwards! The last time I jumped there, the upper winds really picked up and I did almost the same thing again, so you need to be switched on and aniticipate it so you don't get caught out and muddy! :)

The jump ship is pretty good, a PAC750XL which gets to 12,500 fairly sharpish. This place is really big on tandems but there appears to be a regular bunch of sports jumpers there so get in with them and you shouldn't be stuck with people to jump with. They were certainly friendly when I was there, so make an effort to introduce yourself and you'll be fine. Plus, when the day's done there's an honesty bar for �1.50 a drink, can't say fairer than that!

Rigging is available through Point Zero. They were recommended to me by the guy I bought my rig off and having met Dave Gould who fitted my RSL, I was very happy with the work and his approach. Take your rig for a reserve repack and they'll do a full main, reserve and container inspection for the one price. It's �40 - �50 depending on whether it's the while u wait option. They will also courier a rig to and from for extra cost.

Generally, I like Hinton. It's quite an intimate DZ with a group of regular faces who seem more like relaxed jumpers than hardcore full-on competition monkeys. If you want that, nip down the road for Weston.

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(Review ID:3480)

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

An excellant place to do your first jump and to progress

Rated by: that_hippy on 2006-10-24 (user profile) (user reviews)

Review of: Hinton Skydiving Centre
Pros: Great aircraft, great instructors
Cons: None

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I have done several jumps now at hinton and each time i have been there i have been looked after and have felt that i have recieved exceptional instruction, they don't try to force you to jump and even though they are much more experienced than you they don't talk down to you, the food is great, i could live on the bacon sandwiches. You are allowed to camp for free on the site (not that i ever have). The club no longer offers RAPS courses but if you have already started the course you should be ok to jump there. AFF and Tandem courses are still offered.

To sum up i recomend hinton to any skydiver anywhere, its a friendly place to make your jumps.

Any to an earlier comment about flaring to late, don't always rely on the radio to tell you, ur there do it when u think u should (i.e. around 6-10 feet), my radio cut out on my first jump and i relied on my training and made quite a bumpy landing, but walked away.

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(Review ID:3198)

0 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

Student Jump. And my opinion, I was told to flare too late

Rated by: Ri_Bham on 2006-06-30 (user profile) (user reviews)

Review of: Hinton Skydiving Centre
Pros: Easy to get to
Cons: Fractured my spine

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Booked in a small party, just 2 of us, although there was another 2 new jumpers on the course. Felt quite intimidating at times. The 2 other guys on the course with us jumped the day we trained, both landed hard, they said it felt like they were told to flair too late. We jumped the next day, our family wanted to come and see us jump. My mate jumped first, I jumped a 20 to 30 seconds after. On leaving the plane and decent I noticed I was going to land first, I had passed my mate. When coming into land the ground control told me to flair and at that point I hit the ground, Hard, I fractured my spine in 2 places.. If you�re a student jumper and jump from Hinton, ask them for a good, soft landing. Hard one�s really hurt.. and still do almost one year on!!

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(Review ID:3219)

2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Started my A.F.F at Hinton and had a blast!

Rated by: Barking_Mad on 2006-06-30 (user profile) (user reviews)

Review of: Hinton Skydiving Centre
Pros: Great Training & Friendly
Cons: Food!

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I recently started my AFF course at Hinton and have to say that its a great spot. There were many more experienced peeps there which made it quite intimidating at first, but the training and the proffesionalism of the staff was superb. I felt the ground training and the briefings were good and the instructors friendly and patient with my lack of knowlage.

At the time, they were down to running a single Cessna aircraft, which struggled with a full lift and took its time to reach drop altitude, not that this was anything more than a small inconvenience as the view is staggering.

My worst gripe was that throughout the first days training i was stuck on site with no access to food, but this was cool as by Day 2 the burger van was open. I would advise anyone who is new to take some munchies along as there can be some waiting between lifts and training.

Theres a great shop with pleanty of Skydiving gear and vids etc on site and the weather was all blue skys.

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(Review ID:2886)

0 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Nice place if you are near London

Rated by: meistwer on 2006-06-21 (user profile) (user reviews)

Review of: Hinton Skydiving Centre
Pros: Great plane, facilities and some cool people there
Cons: No bunkhouse

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I've been in Hinton jumping a couple of weeks ago and as a Drop Zone is quite nice, big hangar and packing area, showers and a really cool PAC XL750 plane. It climbs quite quickly to 13500.
The only thing I'm a bit concern is about how they treat students some of the so called 'experienced guys'. Some of them made students to feel a bit stupid for being a newbie and one particular guy shouted at a student right in front of my mates in his first jump. It was because he didn't see that the pilot chute was trailing behind him when he was walking back from the landing area, a quite awkward think to do somebody in his 1st jump. That put me off for a while and I did't go back there for about a year. Overall Hinton is a nice place, they have a shop with lots of new and 2nd hand stuff and the facilites are OK.

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