For the past three years, families from all over the Dallas metroplex have come to Frisco to experience a unique once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Wingspan’s Hannah McKinzie has the story.

iFLY Dallas opened in November of 2013 as an alternative for real life skydiving.

“what was the main goal for ifly?” what the original goal for ifly was to be able to give everybody the experience of body flight,” iFLY instructor Andrew Farris said. “So whether you are 3 years old to 100 years old, and you never had the desire to jump out of a plane, this is why these facilities have been popping up all over the country because now, anybody literally can fly without jumping out of a plane.”

Packages to fly start with two one minute flights that are designed to give beginner flyers a feel for the wind tunnel. If flyers would like to come back, there are return flyer vouchers to give them more fly time with trained professionals at a heavily discounted price.

“I have accumulated over 2,000 hours of flight in the wind tunnel,” Farris said. “For the most part, it’s an experience in itself. It’s kind of feels like skydiving, but it doesn’t. I don’t know how to explain it, so the best way I can ever explain it to people is to just come out here and give it a try. I mean, we’re going to keep you safe and we’re going to have a lot of fun doing it.”