Thinking of skydiving near Los Angeles? If you’re ready to take the plunge, we invite you to consider us! Skydive Perris has been serving the Los Angles area for 40 years and through that time we’ve built one of the premier facilities in the world.

As all experienced skydivers know, the dropzone you choose can have a huge influence on your skydiving experience. Don’t let shoddy service or poor facilities tarnish yours. Here’s why Skydive Perris is the best dropzone for Orange County and Los Angeles skydivers, new or experienced.

Proximity to Los Angeles

This is your first consideration – nobody wants to spend most of a day traveling if it can be avoided. Skydive Perris is only 70 miles outside of LA and you can reach us by car in just over an hour.

Hollywood’s Preferred Skydiving Center

Celebrities are notoriously demanding – they only want the best. That’s why Skydive Perris is the chosen skydiving center for Hollywood’s A-list stars and movie productions! We’ve hosted some of the biggest names in entertainment from Miley Cyrus to members of Megadeth and our staff and skydivers have actively worked on aerial scenes as cameramen and stuntmen in several blockbuster movies.

You don’t have to be famous to skydive here though. Our focus is to deliver the very best customer service regardless of who you are. We’re confident you’ll have an amazing time!

Onsite Indoor Skydiving 

An amenity that makes Skydive Perris particularly special is our own indoor skydiving wind tunnel. The tunnel allows you to practice for freefall. It is a fun and useful tool for experienced, beginner, and tandem skydivers. Here, you could indoor skydive and actually skydive within the same hour! The tunnel is child-friendly, so your kids can get in on the fun too.

Fleet of Aircraft

Skydive Perris has an impressive range of jump aircraft, the largest in SoCal. Spacious and powerful, our aircraft will whip you to altitude for your skydive quickly and in comfort. When booking your jump, it’s important to find out what aircraft and from what altitude you’ll be jumping from. These two factors will affect your experience greatly!

Massive Landing Area 

You’re not going to miss Skydive Perris from the air! We have an enormous parachute landing area, with plenty of space for everyone. There’s a grass strip out front for experienced and tandems, and lots of land for newbies to touch down comfortably.

World’s Best Skydiving Staff

We can big-up our facilities all day long, but we know that it’s the people who make a dropzone great. We employ heros of the sport, real innovators and world champions. Skydive Perris is managed by speaker, author, coach, and formation skydiving world champion Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld. Looking after our wingsuit school, you’ll find world record organizer Taya Weiss among other notable names in the sport.

All of our staff are top-quality, highly qualified USPA skydivers, coaches, and instructors. We are rigorous about who we hire ensuring that safety is always our number one priority.

Awesome Restaurant and Bar

So, you’ve popped over from Los Angeles and had an awesome day of indoor skydiving and actual skydiving from excellent aircraft onto a huge landing area, met some skydiving superstars and maybe even some celebrities… What now?

Time for a beer.

Celebrate with a cold one and refuel with some quality food. We have an onsite bar and restaurant with an extensive menu of delicious cuisine. You can enjoy your food and beverage indoors or on our poolside patio, with a view of the landing area!

Skydiving LA? Choose Skydive Perris! 

Have questions about tandem skydiving near Los Angeles? Contact us at (951) 657-1664 or read our frequently asked questions. We’d love to host you for your skydive!

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If you’ve jumped at Skydive Perris for any length of time then you’ve met Mark Brown. Mark loves skydiving and helping others improve their skills. In this month’s People of Perris segment, we sat down with Mark and asked him the tough questions. ;-)

SPV: When, where, why and how did you make your first skydive?

MB: My first Jump was in 1991.  Of course at Skydive Perris.  It was an office bet.  No I was not drunk, I was not even betting. My ex-wife made the bet with a co-worker that there was NO way he could ever get me to skydive (she knew me so well ).  So he says to me “let’s go skydiving.  Give me your credit card.”  I did, and that’s it.  He signed Us up for the AFF-FJC. He never even told me that tandem was an option!

Opinionated.  Stubborn.  Passionate  (they tell me… but that’s Bullshit).  Furry.

SPV: How many total jumps do you have and how many of these do you estimate are load organizing jumps?

MB: 12,700.  Around 10,000 as an L/O.

SPV: How did you get into load organizing and what do you love about it?

MB: Actually, by 1997 I was ready to quit.  I did not like the pressure of team, and finding people to jump with was difficult, especially with low jump numbers.  I was sort of shy and un-confidant.  At one point I received an invitation (by actual mail ) to do a big way camp.  I sent in a check for the full amount (not just a deposit). It was actually sent back to me saying “Sorry, we accidentally put you on the wrong mailing list.”  Then Vinny Palmieri (our then-chief instructor) suggested that I get my AFF rating. Now that’s a confidence booster!  After I got my rating, I saw two guys at a table. I asked one of them if he wanted to jump.  He said “Yes, I have been looking for someone to jump with.”  So I asked the one standing across the table from him, and he said “Yes, I have been looking for someone to jump with.”  I got their names, and told manifest I was organizing… the rest is history.

SPV: You’ve built an amazing group of RW load organizers here at Skydive Perris, tell us about your team!

MB: Mostly we are misfits & loners who have found that we love to jump. I mean REALLY love it.  Everything about it; the sport, the community, everything. We love jumping, teaching, learning, improving, laughing, hanging out and making friends from every conceivable walk of life. We teach the first jump course, do AFF, coach, organize events, compete, and take part in record events. We can’t get enough of the people or the place.

SPV: You’ve been on multiple big way records, can you name a few?

MB: World 2-point 202, World 300, Aussie National 112, 119, Dominican National 20, PoPs 110, 113, and 123.

SPV: Is there any one record that stands out above the rest?

MB: While organizing the Dominican record, at a boogie hosted by their air force, we needed to include the commanding general. Darryld Light and I had to AFF him out the door.  His rig had no storage for his leg-mounted pilot chute bridle, so I ended up holding the extra 10 inches of loose bridle to his leg strap. We made the record with one frame of video, with Darryld doing a John Travolta dance move to close the last grip. The general rolled over and took out the whole mess. Happily we got one still photo to present to their President in front of 5000 air show attendees.

SPV: What is it about Skydive Perris that makes you want to work and play here?

MB: Have you BEEN here?  This is the place!  Besides, it’s only 11 miles from my house. What are the odds of that? Well, not really…it’s the other way  around. When I last moved I printed a map, drew a circle around the DZ, and told my wife if it’s not in the circle it does not exist!  We got lucky and found a great place with a barn for her horses, so now she says things like “Why don’t you go skydiving so I can spend time with my horses?”  I love it!

SPV: What kind of jump do you most enjoy doing?

MB: The jump itself is not that important.  It’s the “newbie” that I had to harass and pressure into coming along because they “did not want to ruin the jump” or “don’t want to do a BIG way.”  (6. Really?)  Then after we land, they say “that was the best jump of my life!”

SPV: What canopies do you jump and why?

MB: Pilot 96, by Aerodyne. It’s sporty enough, but still opens softly, without sniveling forever (that shit scares me!).

SPV: What advice do you have for anyone who has just got their ‘A’ license?

MB: That’s an easy one!  JUMP!  Or better yet, jump with ME or one of the other Perris Organizers.  We even have a jump suit you can borrow.

SPV: When you’re not skydiving, how do you like to spend your spare time?

MB: What spare time?  You mean sleeping?

SPV: Tell us something that is little known about yourself?

MB: There is nothing “little known” about me.  My life is an open book.

SPV: Sum up Mark Brown in 5 words or less.

MB: Opinionated.  Stubborn.  Passionate  (they tell me… but that’s Bullshit).  Furry.

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If you have booked your first skydive, or are thinking about making one, the fear factor is probably playing on your mind. We get asked “Is skydiving scary?” all of the time. The answer is yes… and no. Here, we take you through the process from booking your first skydive to landing and some of the fears you’ll face during the process. We also offer some tips to help overcome your fears. 

Booking Your Skydive

The moment you hit the ‘book now’ button is when things start to get real and you experience that first rush of butterflies. You’re going skydiving! You’ll be thinking about it every day until you arrive at the drop zone, which only exacerbates your feelings of apprehension. 

Arriving at the Dropzone

Once you pull into the parking lot, the reality of what you’re about to do hits you. It’s really happening! Your ambition to be a skydiver is about to be fulfilled. Feeling excited and nervous, you approach registration with your heart rate more elevated than it’s been since you made your booking. 

Seeing People Land

As you await your jump, you will see people landing their parachutes. They are on the other side of their skydives. Soon, you will be under canopy as well navigating back to the landing area. There go those butterflies again!

Gearing Up

Now it’s feeling VERY real. Your tandem skydiving instructor is adjusting your harness and giving a final talk through of the jump. Your mind is racing. You get on the plane and it takes off.

Moving Towards the Plane Door

This is it. The moment has arrived. In a matter of seconds, you will be outside that door, and there will be no floor beneath your feet. As you approach the door, your fight-or-flight instincts are on full tilt. You’ve been trained and you know this is part of the challenge, but this will be the most nerve-racking moment of the entire experience. Deep breath… it’s time to skydive! 

Is Skydiving Scary?

As you leave that plane, something magical happens. Your fear stays in the plane and you are free of it. In fact, you feel the most freedom you have ever felt in your life.

You are totally in the moment and it feels amazing.

Your instructor deploys the parachute and it all slows down. You come into land and all your friends and family are cheering you on. With so much build up to the jump, you realize that the scariest part of skydiving was anticipating it rather than actually doing it. 

You defeated your fear of skydiving and you are exuberant because you know what it feels like to fly.

Tips for Reducing Your Fear

Here are some top tips, from a regular skydiver, for managing your fear of skydiving:

Knowledge is Power

Peruse our FAQs page. These are the most common questions we receive. They are a great source of information to better educate yourself about the experience and to allay your fears.

Arrive Early

Your first skydive is not an experience you want to rush. Make a day of it. Chat to locals about why they love skydiving. Enjoy the atmosphere. Watch who is jumping. You’ll see that those who jump regularly are just like you and you’ll see them loving the experience! It will build your confidence! 

Accept Your Nervousness

Skydiving will induce fear, it’s natural, so embrace it. We all feel it, even after thousands of jumps. Accepting that you will be nervous gives you one less thing to worry about.

So, is skydiving scary? In the end you’ll have to be the judge, but if all the smiles are any indication, our guests tell us the same thing… everything that leads up to it can be scary, but the skydive itself is amazing!

Still have questions? Give us a call! We’d be more than happy to share what you can expect in greater detail. You can reach us at +1 (951) 657-1664.

If you are looking to make your first skydive near Los Angeles, Skydive Perris is the premier destination for LA skydiving and Southern California. 

With the best coaches and staff, best planes, onsite bar, and our own indoor skydiving facilities, we are the dropzone of choice for Hollywood movies and production and skydiving champions alike.

We hope to see you soon!

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