Adventure Center Skydiving, Inc

Adventure Center Skydiving, Inc. has a broad variety of service and jump options available, from tandem to accelerated free fall and group jumps. There is a skydiving store on the premises, and both video and still photo services can be provided.

Tandem skydiving provides a full sixty seconds of free-fall. The company's turbine-powered PAC 750XL aircraft can carry up to 15 jumpers at a time. It reaches a height of 15,000 feet in less than fifteen minutes. At that altitude, oxygen must be turned on, and the plane continues to climb to a height of 18,000 feet over three miles high for the highest tandem jumps in California.

Participants are harnessed to a fully trained and licensed tandem instructor for the jump. During free fall, they reach speeds of up to 120 miles per hour, turning in the air to take in Monterey Bay and the landscape below. At 5,000 feet above the ground, the main chute deploys and the skydivers descend to the drop zone. Only minimal training is required prior to the flight.

Adventure Center Skydiving, Inc. is located at the Hollister Airport, due east of Monterey Bay and just about fifteen miles south of Gilroy. The address is 60 Airport Drive, Hollister, California 95023-2574. For those who are already proficient at skydiving, there are rental chutes available, from 280's to 150's and all types in between.