# An indoor skydiving place just opened a few minutes from me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-indoor-skydiving-place-just-opened-a-few-minutes-from-me/755025 "2016-05-17T19:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-indoor-skydiving-place-just-opened-a-few-minutes-from-me/755025/21 "2016-05-19T04:43:47Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > There is no way to fail at that. You are hitting the ground one way or another. Technically, we consider arriving at the atmosphere-terrain interface without the canopy in a fully deployed configuration to be a “failure” condition. Unless, of course, you’ve let a German scientist experiment on you in a top secret government super-soldier program, in which case you should probably use your perfect teeth and imposing stature to hook up with the neighbor across the hall who keeps subtly flirting with you. Sure, she may be spying on you at the behest of your boss, but what better way to find out the truth, and besides, she might actually be interested in you (_like every other woman in the Western Hemisphere_–“Ask for her number, you moron!”) and she doesn’t appear to have any awkward lip piercings, obvious tattoos, or any other hangups that your 'Thirties era sensibility would find objectionable. I had a point when I began this post but it has since escaped like a cybernetically enhanced Soviet master assassin. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-indoor-skydiving-place-just-opened-a-few-minutes-from-me/755025/22 "2016-05-19T04:54:24Z")
We took a bunch of French exchange high school students and their American student hosts to iFly Seattle. Everyone thought it was awesome! It wasn’t cheap. Most of us bought the tix at Costco and IIRC it was about $60/person for a total of one hour (with 2 2 minute flying sessions each). It was probably the highlight of the 3 week trip for most of the french exchange students. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-indoor-skydiving-place-just-opened-a-few-minutes-from-me/755025/23 "2016-05-19T06:17:55Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Is that using an extra powerful fan or something? > > That person certainly isn’t using the pose **Shagnasty** described. They seem to be using the sheer power of awesome. I was not expecting to see aerial ballet today. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-indoor-skydiving-place-just-opened-a-few-minutes-from-me/755025/24 "2016-05-19T12:12:34Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Right. Indoor skydiving is a sport in its own right and some people can get really good at it but it takes time like any other sport. The instructors at iFly told me that free chamber time is an important part of their total compensation but they only get a (very) few minutes on their own in it per shift because that thing is really expensive to run. The one I tried had blower with 800 peak horsepower; that works out to about $80 per hour for the electricity. But then of course there’s all the other expenses that go with it, coupled with the fact that if the employee is using the chamber for free, then it’s not generating revenue… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-indoor-skydiving-place-just-opened-a-few-minutes-from-me/755025.md?page=1)