After a sunny morning and early afternoon, the sky clouded over Doncourt-lès-Conflans aerodrome. It is 4 p.m. and there will be no new flights this Sunday, May 8, at the Moselle sports parachuting school. The recovery program was no less intense.
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Baptism manual
“It was our first jumps of the season, we started with two baptisms in tandem this morning”, indicates David Roth, technical manager of the school. Several conditions must be met to discover skydiving in pairs, attached to the harness of an instructor. “It is mandatory to weigh less than 83 kilos, to present a medical certificate of non-contraindication, to be over 15 years old and parental authorization for minors. »
After 30 minutes of preparation on the ground, the plane, a Cessna 206, climbs for a quarter of an hour to nearly 3,000 meters in height. The fall lasts about fifty seconds at a speed of around 200 km/hour. It is then time to open the parachute for a descent that lasts five to eight minutes. Around sixty baptisms were carried out in 2021 in Doncourt-lès-Conflans.
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A 100% voluntary school
However, they are not the only activity of the sports parachuting school in Moselle, which opened in 1995. “This afternoon, around twenty members came. They made forty-five jumps, ”explains David Roth. There are several patents, issued by the French Parachuting Federation, depending on the training course of the practitioner. “The A certificate is the first in the progression of the parachutist. It allows you to jump without the assistance of instructors,” explains David Roth. At the Doncourt-lès-Conflans school, all the technical managers and secretaries are volunteers.
This Sunday, they were two at the reception and four in the frame including the pilot of the plane. “We come from all over Lorraine, from Meurthe-et-Moselle, Thionville, the country of Bitche…” The 2022 season of the parachuting school will end on October 3.
