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AXIS Flight School offers structured, progressive training designed to help sport skydivers of all levels achieve their personal and competitive goals. Whether you’re looking to improve your canopy skills, master new freefall techniques in the tunnel and sky, or prepare for competition, our world-class coaches will guide you every step of the way.

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  • June Parachutist feat. AXIS Flight School 🙌

    We were pretty delighted to open June’s issue of Parachutist Magazine and see AXIS all over it. ✨ In case you missed it, here’s what’s in there: a feature on our three (no-joke fantastic) new courses, Nik mugging at David Cherry’s camera over Luke AFB on a demo jump at Luke Days 2026…and. Nik’s writeup…

  • The May flowers April showers brought (+ Brianne)

    In case you missed it last September, this feels like an apropos time to reshare the Skydive The Mag cover Nik shot: Brianne (of course), flying past a dewy dandelion at SDAZ. Also check out some of AXIS’s other contributions to that September 2025 issue of the magazine: Page 8 – ‘Speeding Towards the Future’…

  • Featured Photo: Locked In

  • Five-Minute Call: High-Noon Shadow

    True story: One of the best perks of this work is the opportunity to create the conditions for this kind of grin. Advait, we’re cheering for you!

  • Speeding Toward the Future

    Who Says Solos Can’t Be Fun? The Challenge of Speed Skydiving ISSA.one

  • Skydive Radio Photo of the Week Show #264!

    I would like to thank Dave at Skydive Radio for making my image below their pic of the week! Skydive Radio is the world’s leading internet radio show dedicated to the sport of skydiving.  Weekly episodes include commentary, feature interviews with industry insiders, listener-contributed photos, and e-mails from an audience that spans the globe.

  • 2023 UPT Vector Ad

  • Arizona Challenge 2022 Prints by Niklas Daniel

    AXIS Flight School would like to thank Arizona Airspeed for including us in their annual invitational event – The Arizona Airspeed Challenge. Over the course of the memorial day weekend, members of the USA National 4-way Formation Skydiving Team organized some tricky 60-ways over Skydive Arizona. Jumping from an altitude of 16,000 feet, there were…

  • “Echoes in Time” Parachutist 75th Anniversary Center Fold

    View the digial version of Parachutist’s 75th Anniversary issue.

  • SKYHOOK Video

    Check out our latest YouTube video where we deep dive the differences between a regular RSL (reserve static line) and a Skyhook equipped RSL. Brianne interviews UPT rep/rigger Greg Rau in the AXIS Flight School studio, as well as enjoying a weekend of intensional cutaways. Greg Rau: “In an emergency there is a lot of…