{"id":18744,"date":"2017-07-13T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/?p=18744"},"modified":"2023-10-29T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T17:30:48","slug":"wingsuit-flying-how-to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skydiveperris.com\/blog\/wingsuit-flying-how-to-get-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Wingsuit Flying: How to Get Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cI want to start flying a wingsuit as soon as possible. How do I get that done?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golly, but we hear that question a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not surprising that it comes up for us so often. After all, Skydive Perris is one of the best dropzones in the world to learn how to wingsuit. We have immense landing areas, great, wingsuit-friendly aircraft and–most importantly–a team of the most hailed wingsuit skydiving instructors on the planet. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excited? Of course you are. But hear ye, hear ye: Wingsuiting as a discipline requires loads more in the way of prerequisites than other skydiving disciplines. You\u2019re going to need to square up to them before you start playing birdie. Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. You’ll Need To Learn To Fly In Every Other Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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That said–even with conditions as top-shelf as ours–wingsuit flying is no plug-and-play adventure. Every new wingsuit flyer needs to approach the discipline by first mastering skydiving in general and sternly resist the urge to rush. You need to be able to fly your body comprehensively in all freefall orientations, to understand in detail how a wingsuit works and how your subtle inputs affect it, and to land your parachute with nano-precision on every jump (because how wingsuit flyers land is via <\/span>parachute<\/span><\/i>, not the wingsuit itself). This stuff, naturally, comes with time and dedication. You can\u2019t cram for this test.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. You’ll Need To Check Off A List Of Non-Negotiable Requirements.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before you gear up to get on the plane for that wingsuit first flight course, you will need to run down a list of must-haves and must-dos. Here it is, so you can get started straight away:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n