SkyDiving 101: Facts, Lessons, and Pictures

By William Wyclift

If you’re planning to do this breathtaking activity, then you should be prepared to know that skydivers would usually exit their airplane at the height of 4000 metres or 13,000 feet. After doing so, you would have to do a freefall for a period of time and then you could open your parachute to slow down your descent until you reach a safe and slow landing speed.

Generally, the chute should be fully inflated by the height of around 2,500 ft. In fact it is part of the law that skydivers should jump with two chutes. One would be the main chute and the other would be the reserve, just in case the main parachute would fail.

Once your parachute is in its full inflation, you now have the ability to control your speed and direction using your chute’s steering lines. With that, technical maneuvers could be executed by experienced skydivers giving them the ability to land with great accuracy. In fact, there are even some competitions held on being able to land in a specific spot with the most precision and style.

Table of Contents

SkyDiving 101
A Guide to Skydiving
Formation Skydiving: Creating Art While You Fall
Freestyle Skydiving: A Solo Performance
Free Flying: Do It Your Way
All About Skydiving Weights
Indoor Skydiving
Skydiving: 101 The Truth about Parachutes
Skydiving Myths Revealed
Get a Mentor
Shopping Galore
Safety First
The Less Popular Types of Skydiving
The Skydiving History
Airplane Generation
Skydiving: It's Official

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Wyclift
• Release date: Aug 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466161658

William Wyclift

William Wyclift lives and writes in Reno, NV. He writes about topics that interest him as well as subjects he loves to research.

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SkyDiving 101

Imagine, 

You Bundle yourself out of the plane,

Open a parachute 

and 

floating Your Way Down to Mother Earth!

SkyDiving 101: Facts, Lessons, and Pictures

William Wyclift

Copyright 2011 by William Wyclift

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Table Of Contents:

SkyDiving 101

A Guide to Skydiving

Formation Skydiving: Creating Art While You Fall

Freestyle Skydiving: A Solo Performance

Free Flying: Do It Your Way

All About Skydiving Weights

Indoor Skydiving

Skydiving: 101 The Truth about Parachutes

Skydiving Myths Revealed

Get a Mentor

Shopping Galore

Safety First

The Less Popular