The North West Parachute Centre is a BPA affiliated parachuting centre and skydiving drop zone at Cark , Cumbria .
2-514: The drop zone operates a PAC XL750 Turbine aircraft. The centre provides student training in the Ram Air Progression System , Accelerated Freefall and Tandem skydiving . The centre provides advanced coaching in formation skydiving and freefly. Peter Shaw – May 2005 This air sports-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ram Air Progression System RAPS or Ram Air Progression System
4-549: Is a parachuting training system designed to take a student from beginner to the FAI A License (or Category 8) using square ram air canopies. The RAPS system was developed from the Static Line Rounds system. It enabled a student to make their first jumps on a ram-air parachute, which offers softer landings and more control. RAPS evolved into the category system, which allows students to use ram-air canopies from their first jump. In
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