Aerodrome Krutitsy: description and activities

What is the airfield of Krutitsa? How is it good? These and other questions will be answered in the article. With great love for the sky, pilots, entrepreneurs and other interested persons flew this airfield in the open air. Zvezdochkin Victor (the head of the flights in Krutitsy) remembers what happened in 2010 like this place.

Equipment

What was the airport of Krutitsa earlier? Fans of air flights came to the former platform aviakhimrabot in a clean field. Here there were only a curve hangar and the remains of a shattered strip. As a result, a good terminal turned out.

Zvezdochkin moves around his possessions exclusively with an electric scooter. Part of the technopark, which owns the airfield, is hidden by a hangar. Here there is a sentinel-reconnaissance armored vehicle-2, in a different way BRDM-2, which can pass where roads do not exist. In Krutitsy it is operated only for entertainment purposes. As, in general, and all other technology, which is collected here for those who know a lot about recharging adrenaline.

There are also quad bikes and buggies, with which you can move on, faster and with minimal expenditure of vital energy. For those who do not wish to linger on the ground, you can choose the appropriate transport at the airport of Krutitsa. You can be offered to fly on a bright red Mi-2 helicopter, which can take up to ten passengers. In the "Corn" yellow - An-2 - can sit down to dozens of souls. The light American airplane "Cessna 172 Skyhawk", "Sport Cruiser" and SM-92 T, intended for paratroopers landing, is a little more compact.

You can choose a side and go on tour over Ryazanshchina in flight weather. You can fly as up (the ceiling of the fleet is 4 km), and along the rivers, forests, marshes and villages to envy drivers and pedestrians.

Free fall

And do you know that at the airport of Krutitsa you can entertain yourself by the method of free fall? Here, with joy you will be thrown out of the airplane - both in tandem and singly - from a height of 4 km and from a lower start of 600 m. The airfield provides security, a likely parachutist needs to have suitable clothes and shoes without heels on the thick sole that fixes the ankle .

Residence

At the airport Krutitsy (Shilovo) you can live, as there are lovely hotel lodges. There is a cafe in which the customers are deliciously fed. There is free Wi-Fi, and in the center of the hall there is a hearth.

Almost all around the airfield there are signs in the most nega- tive places and with a wide variety of content. You have the opportunity to meet either a guide to action, or a warning, with each inscription causing a smile and respect for the authors.

Aerodrome

The Celestial Gate of Krutitsa is a private domain, like the entire fleet. Very soon there will be an opportunity to hold international competitions, as the terminal will expand to 1600 m - a new take-off strip will appear. There will be more airplanes, both in quantity, in altitude, and in size.

The Krutitsa terminal is located in the Shilovsky district of the Ryazan region. To get there, you need to leave Ryazan on the highway M5 "Ural" in the direction of Chelyabinsk and move up to 284 km. In the field, a little before the turn on Shilovo, you can see the index - air base "Krutitsy." So, you here.

Price

What is the price of a parachute jump? Consider the pricing policy of the heavenly wharf. Leap in pairs with the instructor has this value:

• The price of the jump (height 3500-4200 m) - 8000 rubles.
• Photo and video shooting of the jump "Operator" (the operator escorts the tandem in an airplane, on the ground, on a landing, in free fall) - 2700 rubles.
• Video shooting of the jump HandyCam (camera is in the hand of the tandem master) - 1500 rubles.
• Independent jump with a parachute (height 600 m) costs 3,500 rubles. This includes compulsory insurance and pre-jumping. Photo and video are not provided. Agree, the price of a parachute jump is not so high.

Flights on the plane have the following rates:

• Board CESSNA T182T (10 min) - 5000 rubles.
• Board SportCruiser (10 min) - 3500 rubles.

Tandem

What is a jump in tandem with an instructor? It is known that for anyone a jump with a parachute forever remains one of the most important actions and the most striking effect of all life. Feeling of flight, free fall can not be compared with anything. It is difficult to tell what a person feels during a jump - this must be experienced.

At the aerodrome Krutitsy you can make a jump in pair with the tutor from a height of 4000 m. Free fall will last about 40-60 seconds. The training takes approximately 20 minutes: the coach holds a briefing for the beginner - tells how to behave properly, separating from the aircraft, during the free fall, after and before the opening of the parachute, and also when landing.

Decrease and soft landing with a parachute "wing" leave an unforgettable experience! Many guests of the airport are delighted with the management of the dome, because the tandem master allows the novice to control the parachute.

Be sure to take with you a closed comfortable shoes (for example, sneakers). This advice is relevant not only for security reasons - because your shale in the air can simply fly away and get lost!