Need IAD Rating

[psychoswooper 2]

This may sound kinda strange, but I am a very experienced USPA AFF I (2000+, former evaluator), Tandem (500+) & S/L Instructor (hundreds of students) & Coach Course Director.
And I would like to add an IAD rating to my qualifications.
Anybody out there qualified to issue this rating. I could travel to your DZ, I think I should be pretty easy to teach. I am particularly interested in doing this from a C-182.

Or if you need a trip to Florida...you could come here & do it. I have Several Tandem I's (no S/L experience but Coach rated & have taught groundschools) who would also like to get IAD rated.

[DougH 270]

Doesn't Bram do IAD? I thought I saw that on the skydiving ratings website.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[punkd 0]

From skydiveratings.com Z-hills

January
11 - 14 SL/IAD rating course Skydive City,FL


Just missed that one.. and theres no more listed. but im sure with enough interest they would run one.

[Superfletch 1]

If you're serious about getting it, just call Bram. I know he'd fit you in somewhere. However, if all you're needing is the IAD and you are a current S/L Instructor, the crossover training is very, very quick, if I'm not mistaken. I was there when Bram got his IAD. Really... there's not a lot to IAD.

Gary "Superfletch" Fletcher
D-26145; USPA Coach, IAD/I, AFF/I
Videographer/Photographer

[jheadley 0]

Skydive the Point in Virginia is doing an IAD course Jan 23-27 by Jay Stokes.

www.skydivewestpoint.com

[matthewcline 0]

If you find you have to leave Florida for the Course (I doubt it) Kip Lohmiller can do it in Ohio.

Just check his web page for the info.

He runs Air Rage Skydiving Services and Gm's startskydiving.com

An Instructors first concern is student safety.
So, start being safe, first!!!

[Glandu 0]

Jay Stokes's website:

http://www.certificationunlimited.com/

[riggerrob 643]

If you already hold a USPA static-line Instructor rating, converting to IAD is easy.
I did the conversion - over one weekend - in California City, under the supervision of Bob Celaya.
Our course started with Bod saying "Rob, you probably know more about IAD than I do," ad he encouraged me to chime in with comments throughout the course.

When I started doing IAD - decade earlier in Canada - my conversion training consisted of observing a first jump course and an afternoon picking the brain of John McCarthy (brother of Tom MacCarthy, the instructor responsible for keeping IAD alive).
Not the best way.
It would have been wiser to drop a few simulated students under the supervision of a Course Conductor.

[psychoswooper 2]

Thanks to all who replied. I'll probably do it with Bram...too cold up North. I know that it will probably be a very easy add on; but I want to make sure that I do it right & don't want to assume that the things I have heard/ am thinking are correct until verified by someone with real world experience.

[Unstable 9]

If worse comes to worse, you could contact JE, stucoach, he did my IAD and SL rating and he is one of the best teachers I know. I'm sure he'd be willing to help, albeit as a backup.

=========Shaun ==========

[brentcair 0]

Jay Stokes is running one the third weekend of Feb at Miami skydiving center out of 182