Skydive Greene County is located in Xenia, Ohio just outside of the greater Dayton-Miami Valley area and is within a reasonable driving distance of major metropolitan areas including Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Richmond, Indianapolis, and Indiana. Situated on a private airport, Skydive Greene County offers a large landing area, a covered hanger for packing, rigging services, and a great staff of tandem instructors and coaches. We currently offer three Cessna 182 aircraft for students and experienced skydivers to jump from. We are also Ohio's longest running Drop Zone which started in 1961!If this is your first time skydiving, come out and meet our experienced staff. We offer tandem skydiving where, under the direct supervision of a licensed instructor, you will fly to a jumping altitude of 9,000 feet (or higher depending on the aircraft), experience the exhilaration of freefall, and then enjoy the scenic glide under parachute back to earth.
If after making your tandem skydive, you would like to further your skydiving career, we have a proven Static Line Course that will teach you everything you need to know about the sport of skydiving from exiting an aircraft, stearing the canopy, and landing safely at the Drop Zone. To read more about out teaching methods, click here.
To make your experience last a lifetime, we encourage you to invite along one of our great videographers who can capture your skydive in video and/or photographic form and make it yours to keep so the memories keep on coming.
Come learn from the best and make a skydive today!
Winter Hours
Skydive Greene County will be open every weekend through the winter months.
(weather permitting)
Call the Drop Zone or email to see if we are jumping.
Saturday, March 13 2010
12:00PM - 4:00pm
Skydive Greene County encourage all jumpers of all experience levels to attend USPA Safety Day. USPA Safety & Training Advisors and other drop zone staff members will coordinate this special day of seminars, updates, and review training.Safety Day will cover the following areas of saftey:
Gear Check and Review : We will have jumpers inspect their rigs with a rigger. Check closing loops and flaps, pilot chute snugness and condition, velcro, three-ring condition, RSL routing, AAD compliance with battery and factory check, etc.
Skydiving Emergency Review and Drills : We will be review all types of problems, reinforce altitude awareness, discuss disorientation, practice in a suspended harness.
Skydiving Emergency Review and Drills : We will be review all types of problems, reinforce altitude awareness, discuss disorientation, practice in a suspended harness.
Canopy Flight and Landing Patterns : We will go over aerial photos to show acceptable and unacceptable outs, review hazards, establish or review landing patterns, and discuss canopy handling toward preventing low-turn accidents.
Aircraft Procedures and Emergencies : Our pilots will review exit order and loading procedures, seat belt and weight and balance concerns, spotting procedures, visibility minimums and cloud clearances, air traffic control requirements, and aircraft emergency scenarios.
How Safety Day Began:
Safety Day was the idea of a soft-spoken but enthusiastic woman named Patti Chernis who approached the USPA Board of Directors with the concept in 1996. The board applauded and endorsed her plan.
Preparations for the first USPA Safety Day were well underway when, ironically, Chernis was found dead after landing apparently unconscious under her open main parachute on New Year's Eve 1996. She died before learning that she had just been elected USPA's Northwest Regional Director. Patti Chernis' idea survived, however. A majority of DZs now report Safety Day activities each March.
