Skydive Foster City

The Tandem skydivingThe student needs only minimal instruction before making a tandem jump. We make over 10,000 freefall parachute jumps annually at Bay Area Skydiving. When Making an AFF Skydive The student exits the aircraft with two USPA AFF Instructors. All modern tandem skydiving systems use a drogue parachute, which is deployed shortly after leaving the plane in order to slow the freefall speed of two people down to that of a single skydiver. Only the most highly trained, professional, USPA certified instructors teach at Bay Area Skydiving. We have a Beechcraft King Air A90 as out primary skydiving plane. In the years between the World Wars of the 20th century, barnstormers, typically adventurous orphans and runaways, performed parachute jumps at airshows. In WWII, the first troop insertions with parachutes are credited with turning the tide of the war against the Axis powers. By 1957, the first commercial skydiving schools began to appear, and the National Parachute Riggers-Jumpers, Inc., started in the 1930s, became the Parachute Club of America. PCA renamed itself the United States Parachute Association in 1967. In the US and in most of the western world skydivers are required to carry a second, reserve parachute which has been inspected and packed by a certificated parachute rigger (in the US, an FAA certificated parachute rigger). Many skydivers use an automatic activation device (AAD) that opens the reserve parachute at a safe altitude in the event of failing to activate the main canopy themselves. One type of parachuting is skydiving, which is recreational parachuting, also called sport parachuting. In the 19th century, women, who still number only between 15 and 20 percent among skydivers, began to appear on the scene. Kathe Paulus from Germany jumped professionally in Germany around the turn of the 20th century.