Sangi

Well this is my home DZ, this is where everything started, so I might be a bit biased in my opinion, but hey, it's home! :)

Kaunas Skydiving Club (Pociunai) is an absolutely beautiful place surrounded by peaceful nature further away from busy civilization.. The weather most of the jumping season (from spring to autumn) is amazing, hot sun, blue skies with white puffy clouds, you can get a nice tan or take a cooling swim in a pond behind the club (including the other swooping pond if you fail your swoop haha).. The DZ is surrounded by the curvy river Nemunas and lush greenery of pines and other vegetation...

The airfield is absolutely huge with one side of it belonging to the skydiving club and the other to the gliders club (so if you feel like you can even take your first fun flight in a glider with an instructor, just by going to the other side of the airfield!).

Our DZ operates L-410 turbolet (even two of these during the annual summer boogie july 10-19th) 90% of the working season, also the vintage russian biplane AN-2 100% of the time, sometimes we also get a MI-8 helicopter and theres plenty of balloon jumps during the boogie!

Professional instructions for beginners in english and russian languages (AFF, SL, Tandem), so if you're only a student wanting to experience skydiving do not hesitate to come! Professional manifest work. All kinds of experienced jumpers, from freeflyers, belly flyers, swoopers to wingsuiters, you will always find to jump with someone and have fun! We also have professional riggers and packers for almost any kinds of unexpected needs :)

We also have a bar where you can enjoy traditional lithuanian meals, get some refreshing drinks (includes beer!), watch TV, listen to the music or chill out with your PC (WI-FI internet available!). Club bunkhouse is available for overnight stay (with prepared bed sheets and top notch toilets and showers, however it is not big and during busy times it will most likely be fully occupied so it is advised to bring full camping gear just in case).

Awesome people, awesome chill out evenings in our special chill out zone ;)

I could write and write, but there probably wouldn't be any space left haha..

Cons? What cons? Don't believe me? Come and visit, everyone is always welcome, see you there!

http://www.skydive.lt

Since I came to study in Scotland, I needed somewhere to occasionally get a jump in, so I contacted my uni (of Dundee) skydiving club and thus made my way to Strathallan..

One of the biggest pros of this DZ is the friendliness of people, I don't know about others, but I had nothing but pleasure of spending time with these people, learning various things, they don't hesitate to answer any silly questions and it's good to have a laugh along the way.. The scenery is great here, it's fun to have a ride with the clubs buggy and many other small things that make it a great place to be in... I haven't made much jumps lately due to weather and money issues, but hopefully in the future I'll be a frequent visitor and full fledged member of the Scottish Parachute club :)

The cons... Well the biggest con is the weather (rainy, very windy and very cold winters) I guess, but that's not the clubs fault, it's just how Scotland is.. Also it would be nice if Strathallan had a full time turbo prop plane for higher altitudes, because 10k feet burn fast if you're trying to freefly.. I haven't spent much time in Strathallan as I wanted, but all in all I think it's a great place to be in the end, cause the people make it worth it :)