How to land When Skydiving
Skydiving Basics: from the Pre-jump to the Landing
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today we're gonna talk about the basics
of this skydiving
I think everybody has a basic idea of
what skydiving is about you take a plane
like this you get to the door and you
jump out but I don't think people
probably realize what the sport of
skydiving is all about everything that a
skydiver might think about but that's
what we're going to talk about today the
first thing you do when you get to a
drop sound you want to make sure your
gear is in good working order and that
starts of course with your rig alright
these things are really simple you got a
main canopy down here you have a reserve
canopy in case something goes wrong up
here and you have a couple of handles um
this is how you deploy your main canopy
and this handle is how you deploy your
reserve in case you need it and then
this one in case your main gets all
tangled up you can cut it away this is
your cutaway handle of course you got to
make sure you know what altitude you're
at so I wear an Altima tur on my wrist
like this and I also have one that's in
my helmet so that it beeps in my ear
when I get to about 4,500 feet cause you
don't want to deploy too late skydiving
is actually pretty safe and just to make
my point you see this little device that
is an automatic activation device as
long as you turn it on if you are
falling at terminal velocity it for me a
thousand feet it will actually release
your reserve canopy which is pretty nice
now to the plane you're going to pile in
this thing pretty tight once you get in
you put on a seat belt sounds a little
counterintuitive maybe but taking off is
the most dangerous part and of course
once you get up to 1500 feet or so you
have to take it off and that's because
it's pretty dangerous to keep it on
something went wrong with the plane
you'd want to jump out right pre jump
mentality few thousand feet before you
get to your jump altitude everyone
starts to get ready your helmets go back
on people do a final gear check and then
this is cool
ish you give this little hand slap thing
it's like everyone is saying to each
other hey have a good jump and come back
alive then the pilot gives the signal to
open the door the jump this is the fun
part of course you have to look down and
make sure you see the drop zone once
you're above it the first group can jump
and just so you don't jump on top of
each other you wait a few seconds and
jump for yourself but here's the fun
part
since you're going to jump already it's
kind of fun to crawl outside of the
plane and do interesting exits like you
can crawl out of the plane let go you
can lock legs with your partner when
you're jumping out you can do a giant
train like this or you can go head down
really anything you want freefall after
you leave the plane you start
accelerating quickly right the speed you
go through depends on your body position
if you fly on your belly
you're going at about 120 miles per hour
if your sit flying maybe you're closer
at about 145 miles per hour and if you
go ahead down which is really freaking
hard then you get into speeds of 200
plus miles an hour and how the point of
freefall is to have fun do the moves
that you talked about with your partner
and then somewhere around 5,000 feet or
so to break away and deploy your
parachute this is an important piece you
have to give yourself distance or you
risk literally running into the other
person when you deploy the canopy right
and at this stage it's like a giant math
problem that's the way I see it anyway
you're flying that canopy but you have
to land in one spot into the wind at
this drop zone I have to only turn left
that's the rules and I have to make sure
I don't run into all the other canopy
pilots turning all about as well you see
what I mean there has a lot to think
about and besides that the skydive is
the safe part the landing the canopy is
the dangerous part fortunately even
though the canopies come down at 18
miles per hour so the modern designs
allow you to flare the canopy and have a
nice soft landing every time all right
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