Each action must be brought to automaticity. Skydiver opens the parachute as close to the ground as possible, when the slightest mistake can be very expensive.

The next stage – training and obtaining a license, without which will not be allowed to independent jumps. In addition, you will have to buy everything you need for skydiving. Parachutes alone athletes are not enough, still need:

• satchels;
• altimeters;
• signaling devices;
• safety devices;
• helmets;
• coveralls;
• goggles

Skydiver training in a wind tunnelThe exercises in the sky are preceded by training in a wind tunnel. In artificially created upward air currents, the athlete is not limited by time and can learn to control his body in weightlessness without rushing. Only after all the movements are practiced on the simulator, the instructor will allow the student to jump from the airplane.

Those who do not want to devote all their free time to skydiving, and just want to experience once what it is – free fall, can go, for example, in New Zealand in Tuapo. For a certain amount of money, those who wish to do so can rent ammunition and make jumps with an instructor. Freefall lasts from 30 seconds to one minute, then landing on a parachute – and the session is over.

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Beginners jump with a D-5 type dome parachute. It is practically uncontrollable, but reliable. On training sites there are special simulators – suspended systems with slings, imitating the control of this parachute. In order to learn at least a little to change the movement of the dome, future parachutists have to change the position of their body in the suspended position with the help of slings.

Even the slightest shift in the trajectory of the parachute can significantly facilitate the first contact with the ground after the flight. For example, there is an opportunity to fly towards it not with your back, but sideways.

Landing is taught with special care. The instruction includes jumps from one and a half and two-meter towers. Jump face, side and back. The main rule is that the legs must be fully tensed and bent so that the toes are slightly visible from behind the knees. Of course, there is no chance to stand on your feet when hitting the ground in this case, however, such a landing ensures that there are no injuries. During training, instructors make sure that each jump from the tower ends with a fall on the side – this is how skydiving is properly completed.

D-5 parachutes are much larger than the “wings” that skydivers jump with. This is good for stable flight, but after landing there may be air left in the dome and then it will continue to float on the ground, dragging a properly fallen on the side of the beginner. To avoid this, instructors teach to stop the parachute by sharp pulling of one of the slings to yourself. But, as practice shows, not everyone manages to roll the dome. On the ground, D-5 instructors or concerned companions who landed earlier stop the movement of the parachute.

If a beginner gets confused during the flight and fails to pull the ring, the main parachute will not open. At an altitude of 300 meters, the mechanism for launching the reserve parachute – Z-6p – will be triggered. After the main parachute opens, you need to disconnect the reserve parachute – for convenience it is attached on the abdomen. The mechanism is switched off by pulling the cord. It often happens that beginners forget about the reserve and land on two parachutes.

In the airplane, each parachutist is attached by a belt to special tubes. The instructor unhooks the carabiner just before the jump. Not every “first-timer” can step into the sky, so the instructor often pushes the beginner out himself with a confident movement.

Parachutists take off with instantly opening mini-domes-stabilizers. Free fall lasts no more than 3 seconds, which should be counted by the beginner himself, saying the numbers “521, 522, 523” – each number is one second. Next comes the time to pull the ring. The force that must be applied to make the ring work and the parachute open is 17 kg, but instructors say that everyone pulls, regardless of physical fitness. The next numbers of the “first-timer” – “524, 525” – in 2 seconds after defeating the weight of the ring should open the dome. Upon opening, the dome is pulled sharply upward and opens overhead with a noise. After that there is silence and a few minutes of calm flight.

100 meters to the ground – it’s time to get ready for landing. Of course, no one takes rulers in flight, but it is not difficult to determine this height – as soon as you can distinguish one blade of grass from another – the limit of hundred meters is passed. It’s time to try to correct the dome, group yourself and tense your legs to the limit.

After a successful landing, the new parachutist stands up, straightens to his full height and raises his hand up – the jump is completed. It remains to collect the parachute in a special bag, take it to the warehouse and get a parachutist certificate. There may be several lines in this document. After the first jump only one line will be filled in and it is up to you to decide whether you will remain a “one-time parachutist” or return to the sky.

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Anyone who plans to jump only once, medical examination can pass right on the spot, where there is always a doctor who conducts a mandatory examination of each parachutist. If there are no reasons for refusal to jump, you can go to the theoretical training session.

What a beginner should know

Before jumping, it is absolutely necessary to get knowledge in theory. At the class, which lasts about three hours, explains the general technique of jumping with a parachute (military paratrooper), also studied the actions during the stay in the airplane, in the sky and in any special situations. All commands and conditional signals to be given by the instructor are studied. If the future parachutist wants to experience all the sharpness of feelings from free fall, he is obliged to insure his life.

After the theory the practice begins: those who have already learned how to use a parachute, who know the rules and techniques of landing, sit in an airplane rising to a height of 900-950 m and make their debut jump. The first three seconds of the flight lasts without a parachute, and then the person himself or a special safety device opens one of the two parachutes. The whole jump takes three to four minutes of time.

Often there is a strong fear of landing, but given that this height gives a load on the legs equal to a jump from a height of one and a half meters without a parachute, there is nothing to fear. In addition, for beginners there is an opportunity to jump together with an instructor in tandem. In this case, you will not need to memorize all the subtleties and worry, because the instructor himself will perform all the necessary actions, and before that will only give a short briefing. During a joint jump from a height of 3200 meters, both skydivers are in free flight for about a minute until the parachute opens. The presence of the second person behind will not be felt until the beginner starts to land with his help.

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