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Static line is how we train all our students at my club, initial jump and ground course is £150 (with uni club discount) and further student jumps are £40, with £5 back if you pack the rig. About as affordable as this sport gets in the UK nowadays, but still quite a lot to ask of a student who is balancing rent, food, studying, etc. Here AFF courses range from £1500 to £2500 depending on dropzone, advance payment, and other factors. Not the sort of money the average 20-something has lying around. Thats before we get into gear, further qualifications, etc. I'm speaking from a British perspective, but I must say, rig hire in the US seems extortionate, no wonder you guys buy your own stuff ASAP, its £10 hire a jump at my dropzone for licensed skydivers, with £5 back if you pack it. If it cost what it does in the states to hire a rig I can confidently say the sport would be completely unaffordable to me.

Speaking as a young person who runs a university skydiving club. Yeah, it’s really difficult cost wise, especially due to AFF, which is completely unaffordable for 90% of students, and for a lot of dropzones in my country that’s the only pathway to a licence on offer. Our club is lucky that its nearest dropzone still does category system training, but even then it’s a difficult sell. Even as a licensed jumper, skydiving is 90% of my disposable income, pretty much our entire club budget goes to making the sport as affordable and accessible as possible. Its not a sport you can do as a hobby at my age, it has to be a passion not only because of the money, but also because weekends are for a lot of students the only free time they have, and most don’t want to spend it at a dropzone in the middle of nowhere on weather hold. Don’t get me wrong, I love the sport and it’s worth the sacrifice to me. But you have to be a very specific type of person and that’s reflected in the number of people that return to our club for a second jump. On a more optimistic note, there are some excellent schemes for young people to help offset the cost, such as the Royal Aero Club Trust Bursary

Fair enough, thats understandable. Though I should point out that the fix should revert you to the default theme, the same as your new account would, still since you've already gone to the trouble of creating a new account its probably not worth the hassle. Hopefully if anyone else has this issue my inital reply can help. I noticed the same thing with the text on my last post, not sure whats going on there, we'll see if this one is any different.

All right, I had the exact same issue, luckily I was able to work out the URL and query string to set my theme back to default, I'll try and explain the process as best I can, but if you have any issues I'm happy to assist, although I'm not super active on here. Step 1: Navigate to the form homepage https://www.dropzone.com/forums (this almost certainly works for all pages on the site, but I know it definitely works from here). Step 2: Open Developer tools. On chrome, press Control + Shift + C; on Firefox, press Control + Shift + I Step 3: On either Chrome or Firefox, press Control + F and search for "csrf". Step 4: This should lead you to a line that reads "?csrfKey=" and then a line of random text, copy this random text. DO NOT SHARE THIS TOKEN WITH ANYONE!!! Step 5: In your browser search bar, paste in the URL: "www.dropzone.com/theme/?csrfKey=[TOKEN]" removing the quotations, and replacing [TOKEN] with the string of text you just copied. That should be it, if you reload any currently open forum pages, the theme should now be back to default! Hope this helps :)

Thanks for the info mate, will do!

Hi guys, New member here, looking to get my A licence. My preferred method would be to do an AFF course, however, this page on Skydive St. Andrews website suggests that this is not an option in my area (Scotland) - and I have yet to find any information to the contrary. Is anyone aware of an AFF course running in Scotland, or is this not an option for me? I'm happy to do a RAPS course if this is the only option, but AFF would fit my schedule far better. Thanks!

I've been a lurker on this forum for a while now, but as I have some questions to ask regarding AFF/RAPS, I figured I should make an account and say hi!