The North West Parachute Centre is a
BPA affiliated parachuting centre and skydiving
drop zone
A drop zone (DZ) is a place where parachutists or parachuted supplies land. It can be an area targeted for landing by paratroopers, or a base from which recreational parachutists and skydivers take off in aircraft and land under parachutes. In ...
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Cark
Cark (sometimes Cark in Cartmel) is a village in Cumbria, England. It lies on the B5278 road to Haverthwaite (and to the A590 road) and is ½ mile north of Flookburgh, 2 miles southwest of Cartmel and 3 miles west of Grange-over-Sands.
It is ...
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Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. C ...
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The drop zone operates a PAC XL750 Turbine aircraft.
[North West Parachute Centre, Cark]
/ref> The centre provides student training in the Ram Air Progression System RAPS or Ram Air Progression System is a parachuting training system designed to take a student from beginner to the FAI A License (or Category 8) using square ram air canopies.
System
The RAPS system was developed from the Static Line Rounds syst ...
, Accelerated Freefall {{unreferenced, date=December 2016
Accelerated freefall (AFF) (known in Canada as progressive freefall, and in Finland as Nova (''NO''peutettu ''VA''paapudotus, a literal translation)) is a method of skydiving training. This method of skydiving tr ...
and Tandem skydiving
Tandem skydiving or tandem parachuting refers to a type of skydiving where a student skydiver is connected to an instructor via a harness. The instructor guides the student through the whole jump from exit through freefall, piloting the canopy ...
.[ The centre provides advanced coaching in formation skydiving and freefly.][North West Parachute Centre]
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Deaths
Peter Shaw – May 2005BBC News
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References
External links
SkydiveNorthwest.co.uk/
– Official Website
Parachuting in the United Kingdom
Sports venues in Cumbria
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