Want a Career in Skydiving?

Careers in Commercial Skydiving.

Australia's largest skydive operator can offer you training in the field of commercial skydiving.

This is for people interested in becoming a licensed skydiver , gaining their international skydive certificate "A" and "B" and then continue with training in one of the many fields available today in commercial skydiving.

Have a read of the newspaper article on the left of this page about a career in skydiving.

For enquiries and pricing on our ccommercial skydiving courses please email careers@sydneyskydivers.com.au

So what is a career commercial skydiving ?

Today around the world there are many skydiving centre's and skydive operations offering Tandem Skydiving, AFF courses, skydive tour services and they all need staff in many areas. People skilled and knowledable in the field of commercial skydiving have the opportunity to travel and work in the fast growing field of commercial skydiving.

• Tandem Instructors
• AFF Instructors
• Manifest staff
• Parachute packers
• Shuttle Bus drivers
• B-Rel instructors and tutors
• Freefall Camerman
• General Duties, Aircraft refueling

The Course

Module 1 - AFF Course

• AFF Course 9 stages including all equipment and training
• Solo Skydives including all gear hire and equipment
• Parachute packing - basic
• International "A" Licence including all gear hire , training and exams
• International "B" Licence including all gear hire, training and exams

During module 1 you will complete all neccessary training neccessary to be awarded your International certifcate "A" and "B" licences.

Module 2 - Introduction to Commercial Skydiving

During module 2 you will be introduced to different areas of training in commercial skydiving and conduct hands on training in Australiia's largest commercial skydiving centre

• 1/2 day skydive tours - customer liason and shuttle services
• Manifesting and legal paperwork for commercial skydive operations
• Over the counter customer service and phones
• Drop Zone duties, TA, refuling, aircraft operations
• Basic meteorology
• Advanced packing - Student parachutes, Tandem parachutes

Module 3 - work placement

Once you have successfully completed modules 1 and 2 you will be assisted with 12 weeks work placement. This may be at any of our 3 operations in Sydney , Cairns or Hervey Bay (Fraser Coast) or with another commercial skydive operator in Australia. This is 12 weeks hands on work experience building on the knowledge you have developed during the previous 2 modules. On successfull completion of your work placement you will be awarded a certificate of completion for modules 1-3.

Extra Modules

Once you have completed module 1 , 2 and 3 and proven your ability to work in a commercial skydiving operation you may elect to complete further modules. (please note that instructor modules are subject to a selection panel based on your skills and suitability to become an instructor as well as minimum jump requirments)

Module 4

• Load organising

Module 5

• B-Rel tutor

Module 6

• Instructor D - AFF endorsment

Module 7

• Instructor D - Tandem endorsment

Module 8

• Instructor B

Jan 2007

Phil Onis is the director of Sydney Skydivers and the single most experienced skydiver in Australia with over 24,000 skydives.

Newspaper Article in Careerone June 2004

Forget being stuck in the office - a career in skydiving knows no bounds.
Samantha Stevens reports

If jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane sounds like heaven on earth, then consider following Phil Onis' plunge into a skydiving career.

Mr Onis literally fell into the industry 20 years ago. Today, with 21,000 dives under his belt, he is considered the most experienced jumper in Australia.

"Every day is an adventure, every jump exhilarating, but it's not for everyone" Mr Onis said.

"Nothing is exciting without some element of danger or fear. The danger is the appeal. And skydiving attracts a colourful type of person. You have to be a little bit different."

There is no such thing as a dull day at the office. Mr Onis, 50, is chief instructor at Sydney Skydivers, where a days work consists of up to 10 jumps from 14,000ft and beyond.

Like Mr Onis, most of the dare-devil divers in the industry began skydiving as a hobby before their careers took off.

"It started as a recreation and became my life," he said. "I did my first dive at the age of 17, back when I was training as an industrial chemist.

"I didn't mind the work, but it was the stressful drive to and from the city to get there that made me think: 'Do I want to do this for the rest of my life ?'"

With the answer a resounding no, Mr Onis began his own carpet-cleaning business and skydived in his spare time. But his spare time eventually became full-time.

"Most people get into skydiving as a career the same way I did 20 years ago - starting recreationally then swinging over when there's a window.

"Once you have enough dives, you can go for a qualification." The qualification process is rigouress and the training is thorough because , naturally, mistakes in this job can be fatal.

there is a multi-tiered licensing process for various career paths within skydiving.

Divers with the combined love of filming and falling can work as a free fall camera operator. Tandem masters dive with an interpid first_timer harnessed to them for safety. Jump-masters and instructors cover the training both of divers and would-be instructors