For nearly 10 years, Richie Dronow has been throwing himself out of planes.
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Mr Dronow is one of the skydiving instructors coming to Orange with Skydive Oz.
"You have your busy days when you jump up to 10 or 12 tandems in a day but it's still heaps of fun. It's definitely not as adrenaline filled as your first jump but it beats real work," he said.
After doing his own tandem jump in Broome, he fell in love with skydiving and has never looked back since.
Skydive Oz will be in Orange on June 9 and the company has also been raising money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section with $5 from every jump donated to the charity.
Mr Dronow said it was a thrilling experience for every novice.
"You feed off that and get the energy and smiles off them. You see someone come down after having an amazing tandem and adrenaline is pouring out of their ears. You definitely get good job satisfaction out of seeing that," Mr Dronow said.
Every jump is different and you always had to be prepared for a few curve balls.
For anyone considering a tandem jump from 14,000 feet, before a 200 kilometre per hour freefall, Mr Dronow said they should just do it.
"There were lots of people who were scared of heights and then found they weren't scared at all when they actually went through with it," he said.
"Most of it is just the fear of the unknown because they're not in control and they don't know what's going to happen."
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