I recently started my AFF course at Hinton and have to say that its a great spot. There were many more experienced peeps there which made it quite intimidating at first, but the training and the proffesionalism of the staff was superb. I felt the ground training and the briefings were good and the instructors friendly and patient with my lack of knowlage.
At the time, they were down to running a single Cessna aircraft, which struggled with a full lift and took its time to reach drop altitude, not that this was anything more than a small inconvenience as the view is staggering.
My worst gripe was that throughout the first days training i was stuck on site with no access to food, but this was cool as by Day 2 the burger van was open. I would advise anyone who is new to take some munchies along as there can be some waiting between lifts and training.
Theres a great shop with pleanty of Skydiving gear and vids etc on site and the weather was all blue skys.
