Diploma in Commercial Skydiving

The full Diploma in Commercial Skydiving is a 32 week intensive course which includes 200 skydives.  The course is targeted at students of varying levels of experience and aims to give them a broad range of knowledge, skills and practical experience to make them highly employable in the commercial skydiving field.  If you enter the course with an A Licence the course is 28 weeks and includes 175 skydives. 

Subject areas covered within the course include; manifesting and load organising, parachute packing, video editing, sales techniques, meteorology, freefall photography and much more.  Once students have gained a thorough working knowledge of the industry they have the opportunity to put everything into practice during their 12 week organised work placement, at a commercial drop zone. 

In terms of employment opportunities, to date 98.5% of all the graduates have been offered employment on completion of their work placement, proving that the qualification has been accepted and valued amongst industry members.  Initial jobs have included freefall video/cameraperson, parachute packing and manifesting, which allows graduates to gain the necessary experience and jump numbers to further their career in the industry.  Some of the 2001 graduates are now multi-rated with in excess of 4000 skydives. 

The NZQA approved Diploma in Commercial Skydiving is partly Government funded for New Zealand and in some cases Australian students. Student Loans and Allowances are available through StudyLink for New Zealand students. For information relating to course fees please contact us, as it varies for domestic and international students.

For Information go to: www.nzskydivingschool.com or check out www.skydivingnz.com