Flight-1

10/21/2026

The jump starts before you leave the ground. 🪂

A good briefing gives everyone a clear plan, a shared understanding of the jump, and something specific to work on once they’re in the air.

Then comes the fun part: fly it, review it, adjust, repeat.

That process is a big part of what Flight-1 courses are built around. Clear coaching, practical feedback, and progression you can actually take with you on the next jump.

Ready to bring your skills to the next level?
Explore upcoming Flight-1 courses and book yours here:
https://flight-1.com/courses/find-a-course

10/20/2026

Come for the canopy flying. Stay for this. 🤝

A flocking camp is more than a few beautiful formations in the sky.

It’s coaching, conversations, mistakes, adjustments, another jump, another try… and a bunch of canopy pilots helping each other get better along the way.

That’s Flying Better Together in action. 🪂

Brian Vacher

📍 FSCM Skydive-MV

10/15/2026

Your alternate landing area shouldn’t be something you start thinking about when you’re already low. 👀

A bad spot, changing winds, traffic, pattern errors… Plan A can change quickly.

Knowing your outs before the jump gives you more time, more options, and a much better chance of making the right decision when it matters. 🪂

Read the full article from Paul Dorward at Skydive Mag here: https://www.skydivemag.com/new/planning-for-alternate-landing-areas

10/14/2026

One of those canopy flights you’re in absolutely no rush to finish. ☁️🪂

Jussi Sistonen with a view that’s pretty hard to beat.

Cruising above the clouds never really gets old.

10/13/2026

High-performance flocking, Empuriabrava views, and a crew that clearly understood the assignment. 😅🪂

Pete Allum running a high-performance flocking day for the Skydive Empuriabrava staff and friends.

Good flying, good people, and plenty of opportunities to sharpen the small things that matter when you’re sharing the sky.

Explore the Flight-1 400 Series here 👇
https://www.flight-1.com/courses/400

📍 Skydive Empuriabrava
📸 Ewan Cowie Photography

10/07/2026

Three off-DZ landings at the start of the course. By the end, David was a couple of meters from the target. 👀

David Schneider joined Paul Dorward for Flight-1 101 & 102 at Skydive Hibaldstow with some clear areas to work on.

By the end of the course, his accuracy had improved dramatically and he even took the win in the 102 accuracy competition. 🏆

Watch David’s landing, then hear what he had to say about the experience. 🪂

Want to build more consistency under canopy? Find a Flight-1 101 & 102 course near you. 👇
https://www.flight-1.com/courses/100

🎥 Paul Dorward
📍 Skydive Hibaldstow

10/06/2026

Good coaching changes the way you fly. 🪂

For National Coaches Day, a little appreciation for the people behind the briefings, the video reviews, the debriefs, the “try that again” moments, and the small corrections that suddenly make everything click.

To all the helping canopy pilots around the world fly with more understanding, confidence and control, thank you for doing what you do.

And to everyone who’s ever had a coach say something that completely changed the way they fly, you know the feeling. 👀

Happy National Coaches Day to the Flight-1 crew. 💙

10/02/2026

October is looking pretty busy. 👀🪂

If “take a canopy course” has been sitting on your to-do list for a while, here’s your sign.

From fundamentals to advanced flying, October has a bit of everything.

Find your course and book your spot here 👇
https://www.flight-1.com/book-now/by-list

📸 Ewan Cowie Photography

10/01/2026

20 years of Flight-1. 🪂

What started with a goal to help skydivers fly safer has grown into 20 years of learning, teaching, evolving and pushing canopy education forward.

Our 20th Anniversary Documentary looks back at the people who built Flight-1, the instructors who have shaped it, and the evolution of the technology, knowledge and training that has changed canopy flight over the past two decades.

A lot has changed in 20 years. The commitment to keep learning and flying better together hasn’t.

Watch the full documentary here 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-JUA8_7IY

Video Edit: Javier Buzz Ortiz

The story of how Flight-1 changed the way skydivers learn to fly th...

09/29/2026

Every bit of tech has an origin story. This one started hanging from a garage girder. 😅

The started with a pretty ambitious question: how do you make virtual canopy training actually feel like flying?

That meant going beyond what you see in the headset. The goal was to create a full-body training environment where the movement, flight dynamics and visual experience work together, then combine it with the canopy knowledge and training methodology Flight-1 has built over decades.

A lot of engineering, testing and teamwork later, that idea became the S1M.

Hear a little of the story behind how it came together, then take a closer look at the simulator here 👇
https://tech.flight-1.com/products/s1m