Hey Fungi! Now I may be from Canada and I may only be a solo certificate holder, but I do work out at my DZ and get asked this question a lot by first jump students. My answer is, if you are wanting to get into the sport and keep at it then go for the tandem and do the AFF program. If you don't think you want to stay into the sport then do a tandem! Pretty much if you want to stay in the sport then go for it. I asked every instructor out at our DZ and decided I wanted to stick to the sport but wanted to go gradual. So I went for the GFF program and it worked well for me. Remember that skydiving isn't a cheap sport and I don't know if it's different where you come from but for us you have to pay for both instructors slots if you're doing the AFF course, plus your own. It gets quite costly. Hopefully these are some good tips that you have so that you can get started in a whole new world. Blue skies and terminal memories, skysticky3
