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2007: To Be Announced
A minimum of eight hours personal pre-study is
estimated as mandatory before beginning the course. This will familiarize
the student with the DF Aviator and its controls and allow a quick
transition to in-water training. This course is for a maximum of
two individuals per three-day course. Dives listed below include
both individuals, back to back.
With your registration and deposit, we will
send you a comprehensive and detailed Training Schedule including
information about the experience and the destination.
Cost:
$15,000 excluding airfare.
Price includes:
- Three days of Deep Flight Aviator Training
- Administrative services, service taxes and
port charges throughout the program
- Comprehensive pre-departure material
Not included in Price:
- All airfare, whether on scheduled or charter
flights
- Transfers to and from airport
- Your stay at the resort and meals
- Meals which are not specified above
- Baggage, cancellation and personal insurance
(which is strongly recommended)
- Excess baggage charges on all flights
- All items of a personal nature
- Additional costs incurred due to independent
travel arrangements
- Gratuities to the local guides
Payment Policy & Deposit:
When we receive your deposit, we will
send you a comprehensive and detailed Trip Preparation Bulletin
about the experience and the destination. All flights and trip costs
are subject to change without prior notice until confirmed reservation.
- A non-refundable deposit of $5,000
is required to secure a space on the trip
- Full payment is due no later than 90 days before departure.
- We reserve the right to sell any space that is not paid in full by 60 days before departure.
- Refund is made if replacement was found less unrecoverable costs of sales, administration special promotion.
- Cancellation must be made in writing, 90 days before departure.
- No refund is made for unused part of the itinerary.
Scuba Diving Equipment:
Detailed information about the gear you will
need to bring will be in the Expedition Preparation Bulletin.
Travel Documents:
US citizens are required to have a valid passport and round-trip
air ticket.
Information current as of January, 2007. Dates
and prices may be subject to change without prior notice.
For Booking and/or further
questions, contact Amos:
Phone: (415) 923-9865
Toll free: 877-229-4253
Email:
We look forward to you joining
us on this adventure of a lifetime!
To join us, please complete the Registration
Form
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Pilots In Training:
2 per training session. 20 spaces.
Availability:
10 spaces per trip
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Day 1:
Start at the Deep Flight Aviator Training
Facility. Check in to your hotel room and meet with Graham and the
crew.
Day 2:
08:00 - Dry:
Individual fit and adjust; Seat controls, heads-up display. Hands-on
review of: controls, life support, power-up, communications, etc
9:00 - Wet:
Familiarization with cockpit, dome closure and opening, monitoring
and adjustment of life support, surface emergency procedures.
10:00 - Dive
1: Short shallow (dock-side) orientation
from back seat; Life support, cockpit closure, communications.
12:00 - Break
for lunch
13:00 - Dive
2: Short shallow (dock-side) orientation:
flight controls.
15:00 - Dry
review of controls, life support and communications.
16:00
-17:30 - Review of lessons,
review of film etc; drinks/hors d’oeuvres.
Day 3:
08:00 - Dive 3: Wet
orientation – Short dive on top of reef (diver depths).
10:00 - Dive 4:
VFR short training dive with student pilot in front seat
12:00 - Break
for Lunch
13:00 - Dive 5:
First dive below diver depth
17:00 - Mission
orientations for final dive (natural history, original explorations,
marine archeology, hydrobatics), review of film, drinks/hors d’oeuvres
Day 4:
Students are given the opportunity
to focus their main flight for the Day 3 on one of the following
mission specialties to which the DF Aviator brings absolute state
of the art abilities to bear, or students can choose a general experience:
Natural History (Big, fast animals)
Sub stays shallow and fast in daylight, concentrating
on seeking and closing (filming) large marine animals.
Original Exploration
The checkout dive is dual purpose and used
for original exploration so that the crew are guaranteed to be "First
Eyes" to see (map / record) part of the planet flown over.
Marine Archaeology
Use of the AVIATOR for shipwreck search.
Depending on location, it is quite likely that Aviator dives will
have discovered deep-water shipwrecks in the area.
Exploring
Underwater Flight
Exploring limits of the DF Aviator —
for example, inverted flight at 1000 feet.
08:00 - Planning
and preparation for final dive (2 hour hatch to hatch)
10:00-13:00
or 15:00-18:00
Dive 6: Final dive.
- The goal is that the student is the hands-on
pilot for 100% of the 2 hours dive.
- Graham Hawkes as pilot in command will coach
as needed and will navigate and operate cameras from the rear.
- The goal is to have the student pilot function
on a purposeful dive deeper than 500 feet in zero light.
19:00-21:30 - Wrap
up. License certification. Drinks/hors d’oeuvres.
Day 5:
Check out and transfer to airport according
to your flight time.
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