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  1. This past weekend I decided to go and observe what this place was about as I wanted to find a place to get my A license. I decided to take my sister for her first jump and we had a blast. Everyone was very friendly and we felt welcomed. The dropzone was packed but within an hour we were jumping. My instructor Kazu asked if I ever jumped before and I told him this would be my 8th tandem, he laughed at me asking "WTF man, why dont you have your license yet?" I told him I was looking for a place where I felt comfortable. Before and after the jump he sat down and went over what made Skydive Spaceland Clewiston different from every other place. He took the time and went through their Skydiver Training Program STP. The one thing he said that sold me was" Here, we genuinely care about our students". All I had to do was look at their facebook and see how many students have gone through their program. I will be back, hopefully soon.
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    Skydive Miami

    The best thing about Skydive Miami is that its located not too far from the city or the keys. The next best is Brett Scaglione my IAF instructor and Fred Whitsitt the owner, some of the friendliest people I have met. After doing a tandem every year since 2011, last year I finally decided to get my A license so I enrolled into their IAF course. Thats when the professionalism went down hill. I paid for and reserved my first 3 IAF jumps in advance as well as ground school. No issues with the first jump, however the next 2 were hell. I had scheduled my second jump 1 week in advanced only to arrive and be told that there was a "weather delay" and to wait 5 hours or come the next day. I smiled cause I noticed there wasnt a cloud in the sky, the winds were 5 mph and the dropzone was full of tandem jumpers. I arrived the next day, and my instructor asked why I never showed up the day before. I replied that I was told there was a weather delay. He said they were jumping since sunrise to sundown. WOW!! The third jump was the following week and this time when I got to the dropzone, no one knew I had reserved a jump for that day even though I called the day before to confirm. So, all the tandems jumped before me and it was a mission to get an instructor to jump with me. Now here comes the good part. Ground school!! I show up, and again no one had a clue that I had reserved ground school except an instructor in training who came to observe the class, even though I called to confirm the day before. I heard manifest and instructors discuss who was going the do the ground school with me and to my surprise no one wanted to. Finally Brett reluctantly said he'd do it even though he was scheduled to do tandems that day. However, after 2 hours manifest tells Brett that a group of tandems just showed up and that he'd have to stop the class. Manifest calls me to the front and tells me to come back later in the week and finish ground. I abruptly leave as I have had enough. After driving for 15 minutes I turn back to ask for a refund when I get there, the instructor in training who came to observe the class told me he spoke to Fred, the owner and informed him of what was going on. We finished the class, I thanked them for their time and never came back.