Barra Jumping

I did my first Tandem jump in my life there in 2009, maybe things had changed, maybe not. They asked everybody to arrive very early to jump in arriving time, me and more 3 friend arrived around 6h30min AM, I jumped at sunset (~18h00min) at 10 000 ft (max alt there), 2 of my friends didn't jump, just waste their Sunday, they had one student there that waited whole day and didn't jump, and one American that arrived later jumped before everybody, because hired the whole package, with video. Very convenient to them make everybody wait the whole day, and very rude. I wanted too much do the course, but that's the main reason I didn't there, I knew that I'd just waste my whole weekend waiting, and begging for just 1 jump. They had just 1 small airplane, 4 passengers. The jump was awesome, btw, and the landing perfect, at the beach, I could stand, very smooth.

Admittedly, I made only two jumps from Jacarepagua Airport, which is where Barra Jumping is located. I was there as part of a group on a holiday trip. We made two beach jumps; one on Bara de Tijuca and one on Ipanema which is not a regular landing area and not generally used. We were there on a week day and is was very, very quiet with only a few people hanging round. There is only a small building housing manifest a toilet and lockers. Packing out in the open. The people are very friendly, one lending me a flotation belt free of charge. The Islander is old, noisy, slow and cramped but, hey, do you want to jump or don't you? It only brought us to 10000 ft for Br$ 100,= so that is pretty stiff. Spotting was insitedly done by a local jumper and was spot on in both cases. From the beach a 15 minute drive back to the airield. Don't count on racking up a lot of jumps there but just go there if you want to see the magnifient scenery and do a beach jump in sunny Brasil.