jjulio

Thanks. Okay, so once completed the AFF course I need these minimum of 25 jumps to get the USPA "A" License. (Does this mean that parachutecenter.com is out of the game as they are considered as non-USPA?) Is it possible to do these back in Europe? Do you normally get kind of a record on completion of the AFF? Also in what time frame do I have to complete these other jumps. The weather over in Scotland is quite.. well... challenging.

Hey there I am on a relative short vacation trip from Europe (Scotland/Germany) to the Westcoast. I am leaving 04/07 which won't leave me with alot of time. Due to the USDEUR conversion the dives got quite cheap and I was looking more into it. However, while Tandem dives are around 200USD the more fun AFF1 dives are only 100USD more. But both jumps eitherway will leave me only with great memories and won't enable me to more so I was thinking about the AFF certification which will cost up at Lodi (parachutecenter.com) 1000USD and down in San Diego (skydivesandiego.com) around 1300USD. So my question is, once gained this AFF-certification does it enable me to anything that I can take over to Europe and do dives there? Also Lodi was recognized as non-USPA. Any disadvantages through this? Is USPA something like PADI (open water diving)? Thanks for the replies and I am already looking forward to join your 'club'. PS: Here should also be a sub-forum for this beginner questions