Have Santa skydive into your shopping area.

Start your event in skydiving high style, Deliver the game ball via parachute.

Have us break out or fake out your summer camp's olympics
(and, yes, we are used to the secrecy required for such an event).

Let us begin your air show or have us be your fundraiser. Sell plates and have us pick prizewinners, by picking up the prize winning paper plate upon landing on it.

We fly directly to your event from the Hazleton Municipal Airport, and our ground crew will generally arrive approximately a half hour prior to the skydive. Upon arrival, they will get together with your point person. When the skydiving aircraft flies overhead, they will establish contact with the demonstration skydiving team.

The first item you will see out of the aircraft is a wind drift indicator to assure the precise exit point necessary for an on target landing. As the wind drift indicator floats to the ground, the skydiving aircraft will make graceful circles around your event as it climbs to its mile high jump altitude. Then the door comes open and out plunge the skydivers into the wild blue.

Their descent will take between three and five minutes depending upon how long they freefall before unfurling their colorful parachutes. Their death defying descent will hold the spectators in awe as they touch down on your target area. The performers will pack up their parachutes as the spectators watch and will gladly answer any questions that the spectators may have.

Highly experienced professionals that hold an expert skydiver's license staff our demonstration skydiving team.

All you have to do is plan the event. Above the Poconos Skydivers/NEPA Ripcords, Inc takes care of arranging for a million dollar insurance policy that has you listed as an insured party. They also take care of all of the required Federal Aviation Administration forms and/or approvals prior to the event (some permits/waivers require thirty days notice, so try to plan well in advance). The administrative and ground crew fee is $299. The jumper fee is $60 per skydiver per jump and our aircraft and pilot fee is $640 per four jumpers.

Example Demonstration Jump Cost Calculation:	Cost
$1 million dollar/ one day insurance	$600
+ Administrative/ ground crew fee	+ $299
+ Aircraft and pilot fee	+ $640
+ One jumper with the game ball	+ $60
Total Fee =	$1599

(These costs are based upon the event being a fifty nautical mile radius from the Hazleton Airport and the jump being between the times of 4 pm until dark. Other locations and times may incur additional fees. Charity events may receive appropriate discounts.)

First inspect the site that you would like us to land and make sure that it meets the insurance requirements of at least 5000 square feet open area, and allow the jumper to fly under canopy no lower than 50 feet above the crowd and land no closer than 15 feet from the crowd line. If you believe that your landing zone is acceptable, call us at 1-888-654-PLAY and let us know about your event and check to see if we have the date and time that you desire available.

Once we have established date availability and tentative price, you can either: Click on the Paypal button on the left. Call 1-888-654-PLAY with a Visa/MC Mail a $99 non-refundable deposit to the Above the Poconos Skydivers 69 Center Hill Road, Sugarloaf, PA 18249 The deposit goes towards the price of the exhibition skydive and is non-refundable, so make sure that you check with us first, prior to making that deposit.

Upon receiving the deposit, we will make arrangements to meet personally with you and inspect the site, make a video of the area, mark its coordinates into our Global Positioning Receiver, and finalize our contract.

Because skydiving is extremely weather related, we must have your phone number at the jump site for the day of the jump. If the weather does not permit the skydive, we will call and notify you as soon as possible on that day. You may reschedule the skydiving exhibition for a mutually acceptable, preselected, alternate date.

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