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sydthe

Cheapest Tunnel time

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I know you're asking a very simple question and I don't want to complicate it unneccesarily, but I don't think 'cheapest' should be your only criterion. Even if it is, you say you don't mind travelling but we don't know where you are, and there must be limits - if you fly halfway around the world to visit a cheap tunnel, suddenly it's not so cheap any more. :)
Other things I would be asking myself:
Am I a beginner, or do I already have some experience?
What sort of flying do I want to do?

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BigBUG

Flystation Saint Petersburg
14 feet tunnel, built by IGS, sooooo...best wind quality.

450 Eur/hour including coaching, buy 10 hours - get 90 minutes free.
feel free to pm me if you have questions



Have to correct my friend - it's 60 minutes which goes as bonus to 10 hr bulk offer
Why drink and drive, if you can smoke and fly?

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Cheapest tunnel prices in the world ! $3200 for 11 hours at Freezone in Moscow. I recently took a trip to Freezone to try and learn to freefly. Knowing that it was going to take a lot of time to start to gain the skills to fly properly, I decided that i couldn’t afford the $800-1,000 per hour rates in the states. I found Freezone and started emailing the staff there. They were very friendly and helpful with setting up everything for me. Everything from help with invitations for Russian Visa, hotel suggestions, selecting coaches that were awesome flyers and spoke english, free shuttle daily to and from the hotel/airport, trips to the bank (ATM) and help with anything we needed. Plane tickets from the states can be found from $450-700 from LAX and hotels can be anywhere from $15-50 a night. Add it all up and for the price of 4-6 hours in the states you can get 11 hours there.

Freezone has recently upgraded their whole facility that includes a 16.5’ and 12’ tunnels. They have a restaurant, bar, team rooms with video to debrief and tons of floor space to use creepers or stretch out or whatever. They are currently building a hotel on site as well but it wasn’t open yet. They will have a full weight room and another bar/restaurant in it.

I went with another flyer that had about 25 hours of tunnel already and was wanting to learn more dynamic type of flying. The coaches were great in getting him to progress and learn new techniques. I was pretty much starting from the beginning having to re-learn back and sit flying ( I haven’t flown in 3 years). I did get to do some head down but I need more practice. I am heavier big guy weighing about 250 lbs and they spent a lot of time with me to learn to gain extra lift from every way possible without just turning up the tunnel speed. In the US tunnels that I had trained in previously, they just cranked up the speed to get me up and I wasn’t learning the right technique. These guys really spent the time to teach me the right way. We could fly, then go to the team room and watch the videos of the flights and critique techniques.

You can even bring your own coach if you want and use their facility that way if you wish. There was another large group of 12-13 flyers that brought their own coach. They will work with you and help set up any schedule you want that works.

Prices for 12’ tunnel
Day rate from 1600-0100 week days 330 EUR $390 USD
1000-0100 week ends Same
Night Rate 0100-1600 week days 270 EUR $320 USD
0100-1000 week ends Same

16.5’ tunnel 1600-0100 week days 370 EUR $440 USD
1000-0100 week ends Same
Night Rate 0100-1600 week days 330 EUR $390 USD
0100-1000 week ends Same

Coaching rate for private coaching is $100 EUR or $118 USD per hour, they have many coaches at different levels for whatever you need. Many of the coaches also compete in tunnel competitions and are skydivers themselves.

I just pulled those rates off of their website freezone.net December 29th 2017. We flew under a cheaper price of $2900 for 10 hours and if you buy 10, you get 1 hour for free. Looks like their prices just went up a little since we booked a month ago.

So if you are looking to do a bunch of bulk time in the tunnel, check out Freezone. Maybe not to helpful if you only want to do an hour or 20-40 minutes.

I can’t say enough good things about how they treated us and how great the coaches and staff were. Plus, it was pretty cool visiting Moscow and seeing everything the city has to offer.

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Yes it will be Flystation, but it is not open yet. You could expect same level of price as other big Russian tunnels, with some big discounts before opening :)

In the meantime, you always could visit the mothership in Saint-Petersburg :) And it's a city worth visiting :)

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