Tell me non UK skydiving isn't like this

[mik 2]

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I was paying £3.50 a jump in Russia with an extra 50p per pack job. Call it a shade over $6 all in. And that out of a Helicopter. That was a couple of years ago mind - no idea what it is now with exchange rate changes.

The prices at my DZ in Russia (Kolomna, near Moscow) have been a lot more than £3.50 since I first started jumping here in 2005 - in that year it was about £10 ($16 a jump - including from an Mi8 hlicopter going to 13.5k ) if you bught a block of 50 jumps plus about £2 ($3) a pack job. I am not sure where you jumped but it sounds as though you had a very good deal.

Your point about making it a free holiday is absolutely true.. when I first came to Russia on an organised skydiving trip, the cost of £850 for 50 jumps, flights, accommodation etc was less than the £1000 it would have cost for 50 jumps in the UK at the time. And I did as many as 120 jumps in 2 weeks, packing for myself with one rig, with others doing more than me.

It is certainly something that might be worth considering today, if the jump tickets are much cheaper than the UK. (Currently I think around £15 a jump in Kolomna, depending on exchange rates)

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Hey Mik ever been to (novosirbisk) Новосибирск? I went through there in 2008. I maybe passing in 2012.

[mik 2]

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Hey Mik ever been to (novosirbisk) Новосибирск? I went through there in 2008. I maybe passing in 2012.

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Yes I have been to the city a couple of times for work but not jumped there. One of my friends has but only to do a tandem so I dont have any info about the DZ. I think the DZ is quite a long way from the city. I hope you are going in Summer. Siberia gets pretty cold in the winter.

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