When can you instruct?

[jigneshsoni 0]

At what point can you get other people in tandem with you? I mean somebody who wants to do their first sky diving jump in tandem, when can you do it with them?

Are people who are into insturctions do this for full time and do it for living? Is this a good profession? Do people get into this profession for money or for the fun of it? or for both?

Does it pay good? I would love to get my mother and my father to do tandem with me someday? I am not sure if it is all worth it?

Can anybody tell me the possibilities?

Thanks in advance.

[Kris 0]

To be a Tandem instructor you must have 500 jumps, 3 years in sport, and already have one other rating (Coach, AFF, IAD)

I recommend that you look through the Skydivers Information Manual (SIM) on the USPA website.

www.uspa.org

2005 USPA SIM

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[skybytch 273]

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I recommend that you look through the Skydivers Information Manual (SIM) on the USPA website.

What Kris said. I'd also recommend a trip to the dropzone. Maybe even do a jump.

[riggerrob 643]

Are people who are into instructions do this for full time and do it for living?

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A few of us make our livings hauling tandem students full time.
Mind you, I also do a lot of rigging, video, PFF, teach IAD students, refuel visiting helicopters, sweep out hangars, etc.
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Is this a good profession? Do people get into this profession for money or for the fun of it?

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Mostly for the fun .. because it sure does not pay very well.
I could earn far more money in a real job, if I could just keep a real job.