Skydive San Jose

After training you and your instructor will exit the plane at 14,000 feet and will have about 60 seconds of freefall before opening the parachute. Tiny Broadwick, another professional parachutist in the U.S., became the first woman to jump from an airplane in 1913 and the first to make a freefall in 1914. Skydiving is great when you connect with more and more skydivers, you can get connected with other skydivers that are already experienced. You can also lead your friends to try this extreme sport, they will love the idea of living on the edge. The tandem freefall skydive is with the safety of an experienced instructor in a harness built especially for two! Bay Area Skydiving is the Bay Area's premier Skydiving provider The Tandem skydiving instructor controls the whole jump from exit through freefall, piloting the canopy, and landing. The tandem first-jump training typically costs around $100 less than AFF and about the same as IAD and static-line training. A typical jump involves individuals jumping out of aircraft (usually an airplane, but sometimes a helicopter or even the gondola of a balloon), travelling at approximately 4000 metres (around 13,000 feet) altitude, and free-falling for a period of time before activating a parachute to slow the landing down to safe speeds. The tandem is the fastest and easiest way to be introduced to the sport parachuting. An important thing to be mentioned is that the parachute canopy is a rectangular, inflatable wing, open in the front to scoop, or ram, air. The parachute is forced to stay filled by the fact that it is sewn closed in the back. Several airfoil-shaped sections, sewn together side by side make up a ram-air canopy. The sections build a wing similar to an air mattress. After you calculate all your time and cash available for skydiving, you will be able to choose between three first jump skydiving methods. Static line, tandem and AFF