He moved to Las Vegas in 1996 and met Joe Herbst who was just learning how to skydive and decided to go join him, and the rest is history.  After only a little less than 2 years in the sport and 300 jumps he did his first demonstration jump into his elementary school.  He then started jumping into different events, as a “Liberace” Penguin, and then joined the Flying Elvis Skydive Team.

In 1998 Dolan started doing tandem Instruction on the weekends and summertime when he wasn’t teaching school.  While doing tandems on the weekends at several different drop zones he kept doing exhibition jumps all around the country with several different teams.  After jumping into his high school alma mater Wilson Area High School in PA a reporter quoted Dolan “I can be a principal, but I prefer skydiving, it’s much more fun”

The feeling you can give someone on a tandem along with the feeling it gives you is a moment that will last forever.  It truly changes people and you will forever look in the sky knowing now….why birds sing.

The relationship with Sammy Vassilev has lasted over 25 years, paths crossing every few years and when he came to  Dolan with his idea of Skydive the Strip, he knew right away that his two passions of tandem skydiving and exhibition jumping would be combined to a match made “Over the Lights of Las Vegas”