★ coming soon · wi/il border ★

we're building a dropzone,
and it's gonna be
really cool.

balloons. rotorcraft. skyvans. a wingsuit wind tunnel. a 5,600-foot runway. a swoop pond. open in winter because we're tough. it's a lot.

read the plan → see the drawing

part 1 — the idea

the midwest's mecca for exotic aircraft jumps.

the whole point of this dz is to be the place experienced jumpers travel to, not the one they put up with. that means a runway long enough for turbine stuff — skyvans, dc-3s, helicopters, hot air balloons, whatever shows up.

the runway at perris is 500 feet shorter than what we're planning, and they land a dc9 on it. we should be fine.

and then the big draw: a wingsuit wind tunnel. barely any of those exist in the us. plus a normal tunnel next to it for everyone else.

ps — the exact location is still tbd. the map below is the dream version with all the good stuff built.

part 2 — the cool stuff

what makes this one different.

1

exotic aircraft

balloons, rotorcraft, skyvans. the 5,600' runway exists so we can actually host this stuff.

2

wingsuit tunnel

the single biggest pull for experienced jumpers. almost nobody else has one.

3

normal tunnel too

right next to the wingsuit one. freefly, formations, tandem add-ons, aff students.

4

sunrise jumps

weekend first-light loads. get up early, watch the sun come up from under canopy.

5

open in winter

select days. we are not pussies.

6

jumper lodging

across the runway from manifest so tandem customers don't have to see the degeneracy.

7

swoop pond + shr

dedicated landing area for swoopers and high-performance canopies, with its own pond.

8

rv + campground

pull up, plug in, stay the whole weekend. boogies welcome.

9

lake michigan!!

jetski rentals. maybe parasailing. marina's right there in case of a water landing.

part 3 — the drawing

the dream layout.

everything in one place. not to scale. probably not to code. but that's the idea.

PB Skydiving crayon-drawn site map A hand-drawn map showing a north-south runway, landing areas, lodging, wind tunnel, swoop pond, and Lake Michigan. 34 16 5,600 ft asphalt runway Tandem & VP landing area aircraft hangar MANIFEST P WIND TUNNEL RV parking & campground lodging pond (for fun) + water training do NOT land past this line!! GENERAL LANDING AREA pea pit S.H.R. (swoopers, high-performance, retards) landing area swoop pond marina close access to marina in case of a water landing! LAKE MICHIGAN WISCONSIN ILLINOIS N

figure 1 — drawn on a napkin, ported to crayon.

part 4 — where

right on lake michigan.

somewhere along the wisconsin/illinois border. close enough to chicago (~90 min) and milwaukee (~30 min) that people can actually come. lake's right there. the views are gonna be stupid.

the airspace situation: we're just outside of o'hare class b, which is great. the one catch is that some eastbound flights to europe pass directly overhead with only a couple hundred feet of vertical clearance. gotta work that out with the faa.

part 5 — say hi

want to help build it?

got money, land, aircraft, ideas, or just think this is cool? let's chat.

hello@pbskydiving.com @pbskydiving

"but pavel where the fuck are you gonna get the money from??" — sba loans max at $5.5m. haven't done all the math. pretty sure we'll be chillin.