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CYPRUS JOINT SERVICE ADVENTUROUS TRAINING

CENTRE (CJSATC) – PARACHUTE WING

FS Martin White RAF PJI – Chief Instructor

T
he CJSATC Parachute Wing Tandem Instructor is assisted on board
conducts parachuting training the aircraft and after a full parachute

courses to the British Parachute systems check the student and Instructor
Association syllabus of training and BPA are exiting and are in freefall. During the 45
Operations Manual as per JSP 419. All seconds of freefall the tandem descents
training and parachuting takes place at are ilmed by extremely competent camera

Kingsield Drop Zone in Dhekelia Station lyers whilst plummeting towards the
and the team consists of 5 personnel (2 earth at 120 mph – parachutes are then
RAF PJIs, one Cpl RLC, an admin clerk opened. All the participants then enjoy
and a pilot). The military staff are all the thrill of a 5-minute canopy ride before

BPA qualiied instructors and deliver the arriving back to earth with a pinpoint arrival
following:
and the most accurate of landings. Battle
Back’s work makes a huge difference to
Basic Freefall Parachute Course. lives, physically, mentally and emotionally
Basic courses of 1 week and up to and CJSATC are only too glad to assist.

8 descents are for personnel with no By undertaking this project it enables
previous parachuting experience. The our wounded servicemen and women to
initial descents are carried out from experience an activity where there is no
4500 feet using a parachute system Category 8. These courses are primarily divide between the able bodied and the

automatically deployed by static line.
to progress students through a variety of amputees.
BPA grades.
Intermediate Freefall Parachute Unit Group Adventurous
Course (IFP). Intermediate courses are Battle Back. Each Battle Back student Training Course (UGAT)

completed over a 2 week period and are arrives with a full medical certiication UGAT students undertake the same
for students with very little parachuting and after a 20-minute parachutist’s brief Syllabus of Training that the BFP
experience. The culmination of the 2 they are escorted to our waiting aircraft completes, but with only 1 static line
weeks and up to 20 descents should be before being securely attached to their parachute descent programmed, over a 2

BPA Category 8 skydives.
experienced Tandem Instructor. On the day period; this is an ideal way to sample
ascent to 12000 feet they are shown parachuting alongside some of the other
Advanced Freefall Parachute Course the picturesque Cyprus countryside activities that CJSATC provide.
(AFP). Advanced courses are for those and before long it is their turn to make
students who have already attained BPA
a parachute descent. Each student and