If you're one of the rare few to be born on Leap Day, you're in luck — at least if you've ever wanted to experience the thrill of indoor skydiving (which would make you an incredibly specific person. Are you the lead in a quirky mid-2000s rom-com? I digress.)
iFly Indoor Skydiving — there's a facility in Greater Cincinnati — is offering free "flights" to those born on Feb. 29 during Leap Year Week, Feb. 24 to March 1. And for those not born on Leap Day, you can still score a 29 percent discount on up to two additional flights added to a flight package during the week.
"The odds of being born on February 29 are 1 in 1,461 globally," a release reads. "Since leaplings are so unique that the Earth revolves around them. iFLY U.S. locations will offer any person born on February 29 the opportunity to fly two flights for free during Leap Year Week."
The Liberty Township location opened last May and is the only facility in Greater Cincinnati and Ohio. (The next closest location is in Chicago.)
Not sure what "indoor skydiving" entails? For starters, no, there is no jumping out of an airplane. iFly uses a vertical wind tunnel fly chamber that contains wind speeds high enough to keep flyers afloat. After signing in at iFly, guests are assigned a flight instructor who walks them through the process and sets them up with gear, a suit, helmet and optional earbuds. If it's your first time checking it out, you'll mostly just learn how to stay afloat in the tunnel.
If you're an interested leapling (or normal-birthday-human), more info can be found at iflyworld.com.
