May 14, 2010, 10:28 AM
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What does your local tandem examiner charge to train and certify a new tandem instructor?
Please ignore fees paid directly to USPA or the manufacturer. Please ignore rig rental and jump tickets, JUST THE FEES PAID DIRECTLY TO THE TANDEM EXAMINER.
May 14, 2010, 3:37 PM
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just paid $300 for mine. Just covered the Examiner's fee, nothing else. There was no charge for eval jumps. I did not have to repeat any, but I do believe that there was no additional fee (other than slots and rental of course) for re-jumps either. That is my rating cost me all slots and gear rental and uspa / upt fees plus $300.
I thought it was fair. I charge $200 plus slots and fees for my coach course. I normally do all eval jumps, and if I hire someone to do them I pay them out of the $200. No additional eval fees to the candidate, even for re-jumps.
May 14, 2010, 9:12 PM
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Just paid $250 to Jim Crouch in west point, VA for a strong tandem rating course (examiners fee only). Then consider $155 to strong ent for the packet, $80 to the doc for a medical cert, 20 slots @23 each, fees to USPA..... I set aside a grand total to get it done and its gonna be pretty close to that.
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May 17, 2010, 1:40 AM
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i am a tandem examiner for the governing body in ireland and also for UPT. i charge €250 per head for the rating.the club will cover the cost of slots at no charge to the person.i get the person to pack the tandem chute himself after the jumps. and i will continue and keep an eye on the person well after he has finished his rating and is in the early days of his tandem career. so i think that is a fair price to charge. rodger
Jun 1, 2010, 5:38 AM
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I have spent over $3500 on my rating over the years, about $2k in aussie, about $800 in NZ converting my aussie one (I only had 50 tandems) and abot $500 in the USA converting and doing coach ratings etc.
That all includes jump tickets, medicals, coach ratings, DZSO ratings, first aid certifecate/revals. If I included rating annual fees it would jump up more, but I have earned so much it does not even bother me in the slightest how much I have paid as it is minimal to the fun and money I have gained out of doing so.
I now have NZSA, ParaNZ, NZPIA, APF, USPA and Tanzania CAA tandem ratings.
well worth every cent!
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Jun 1, 2010, 1:34 PM
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Because he said it included everything from jump tickets to medicals. The $300 figure is only the examiners fee, it doesn't include anything else. From friends that have gotten their rating recently, it's about $1300 total. So you are comparing $1200 to $2000. The difference probably is due to exchange rates and different economies.
Jun 2, 2010, 6:56 AM
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So you are comparing $1200 to $2000. The difference probably is due to exchange rates and different economies.
Skydiving as a whole is less expensive in the USA.
Annual membership in Aussie is about $200+ratings from memory and I laughed at some Americans in Florida complaing that the USPA fee had gone up like$20 to $50 or something I cant remember for sure.
What is the annual running cost of membership in the USPA these days, and ratings etc?
I only had to pay nz$17.50 for the remaining 6 months of 2010 with the NZSA here, I was chuffed (it is not even july yet), and they didn't charge me to convert my ratings either.
I'm so glad to have good people that are not greedy to deal with...
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