Six important instructions before you go parachuting

Six important instructions before you go parachuting

You know what they say about parachuting, right? This sport is regarded as the most dreaded exercise for most people. Skydiving is a sport designed for the person with an adventurous spirit. Once you have decided you're up for the adventure, take a few necessary steps and be on your way to experiencing an exhilarating jump from an airplane. In fact, there are old skydivers, and there are young skydivers. Before you go skydiving, you should choose a reliable instructor, because it's all that matters.

Six important instructions before you go parachuting:

1. Attach a group to go with you. This is because you need a witness to your courage.
2. Call skydiving operation in your area and interview them. You must establish that they are certified by an independent oversight agency, that they would take the time to answer your question, and that they present a professional attitude.
3. Verification of their safety record. Ask if they have had an accident. Contact the certification agency to inspect them.
4. Determine the type of jump. Perform their own jumps (jump solo) require that you complete a course of instruction, then jump using a static line. This line will automatically open your parachute when you exit the plane, eliminating the free fall. A tandem jump requires fewer instructions and allows you to experience skydiving instructor because you are bound to do all the work, pulling a parachute and jump control.
5. Make sure that you understand every element of instruction. Do not let yourself be rushed through. If the instructor does not answer your question to a level that makes you feel secure and confident, do not proceed.
6. Enroll in the certification course, if you want to pursue skydiving information. This instructor-led courses, multijump take several weeks or months and the cost is not cheap. As a certified skydiver, you will be allowed to perform parachuting in the future.

Skydiving record with the largest number of jumpers

Skydiving record with the largest number of jumpers

Skydiving record with the largest number of jumpers

South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia has managed to break the record for skydiving with a 342 meter long ribbons and flags most parachuting on attractions in Makassar on Wednesday, October 19, 2011.

Record-breaking parachute jump was a series of anniversary-342 to the South Sulawesi Province, held in the construction of Center Point of Indonesia, Makassar on the cooperation of the Indonesian National Army Air Force and the Federation of Aero Sport Indonesia (FASI) local.

Manager of the Indonesian Record Museum (MURI) Paul Pangka submit three awards consist of a record-breaking parachute jump with a ribbon along the 342 meters, parachuting with 25 flags of 24 counties and the city flag and the flag of the province as a pioneer of the award plus a free education in elementary and greening through the air .

Awards received by the Governor of South Sulawesi Syahrul Yasin Limpo, FASI and Lt. Col. Kes. Yulianto of the Air Force, carrying paratroopers along the 342 meter band.

Places of mass parachute jump by 80 parachutist, parachutist begins with seven women who took the tape along with a precision of 34.2 meter jump landing was followed by the formation of six jumpers. Then followed by 25 paratroopers carrying 24 counties and the city flag and the flag of South Sulawesi province.

Things end with aerobatics skydiving four Sukhoi fighter aircraft types that simulate air support to support the ground offensive a "bomb burst maneuver" from an altitude of 150 above the ground with a speed of 750 kilometers per hour.

Four planes, led by Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Hasanuddin Sultan air base 11 Airmen Fortunately Suropati then simulates a rocket launch S-8 with a speed of 850 kilometers per hour from 30 degrees angle of attack.

Then the fighter Sukhoi SU-SU-27 MK2 and SKM from 11 Wing air squadron 5 Sultan Hasanuddin air base was re-united in one formation before closing with the action of "high speed pass break". 

Formation Skydiving

Formation Skydiving

Formation skydiving is the art of building formations in free-fall with multiple people gripping each others' limbs or specially built "grippers" on their jumpsuits.

Formation skydiving can be further divided into several sub-categories, so named for the number of members in a team:

• 4-way sequential
• 4-way vertical sequential (VRW)
• 8-way sequential
• 16-way sequential
• 10-way speed
• Large formations (Big-ways)

A competition in 4-way formation skydiving (FS-4) takes place like this:

There are two kinds of formations, called randoms and blocks. The randoms are singular formations with full separation of all grips both before and after building the formation. The blocks are double formations with a special designated movement pattern in between, called an inter. The start formation may, or may not be similar to the ending formation. The inters are differently performed. Here are some examples:

Inter 1: The grips are released between some of the flyers, so they become two pieces of two team members. they both do a 270 degree turn, and reconnect to a different formation

Inter 2: Three people stay connected, and do a 360 turn, while the last person, flies alone.

Inter 15: All grips are released and everyone does a 360 turn back to the original formation.

Blocks are designated by numbers, while randoms got letters. Blocks are worth one point for each correct formation, that makes 2 points, and randoms count as 1 point. There are 22 blocks and 16 randoms.

A competition consists of up to 10 rounds, and each round consists of 5 or 6 points, which the teams are to repeat as many times as they can within the working time of 35 seconds. The score judging are based on the videographers material.

A competition draw may look like this:

1. C-E-B-13 2. 14-20-8 3. 15-16-H 4. J-O-1-D 5. 6-18-19 6. 5-F-21 7. 10-K-G-M 8. 22-3-P 9. 12-9-4 10. 11-17-Q

The winning team will be the team that has collected most points, by completing the most correct formations within time after the final round is ended. In case of weather or technical problems, or other causes, a competition will be valid as long as all teams has completed at least one round.

The current FAI world record for largest free-fall formation is a 400-way, set on February 8, 2006 in Udon Thani, Thailand by World Team. It was held for 4.25 seconds. They used five C-130 Hercules airplanes and exited from an altitude of 25,000 feet.

A recent sub-category of formation skydiving is vertical formation skydiving (VRW). Skydivers build formations using higher-speed body positions normally associated with freeflying, such as head down and sitflying.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_skydiving