Skydiving equipment for your safety and fun ride

Each sport has its own unique accoutrements, which are necessary tools that make play possible or offer a layer of safety. These tools are essentially synonymous with the activity. Like skydiving has its own safety equipment.

Without a bat or a pair of braided leather mitts, what would baseball be? Football without studs or shin guards? Without protective pads or helmets with the traditional metal facemask, what sport is American football? What would skydiving be like without parachutes, to use one of the most basic pieces of gear? Of course, our list only touches the surface of each of these sports.

While the prerequisites for other popular sports are somewhat clearer, there is still some uncertainty around our little specialized hobby of skydiving. The skydiving equipment that enables each and every jump must be understood if you’re interested in learning more about this daring activity.

We try to make it a little less overwhelming to get your bearings in a brand-new pastime! An introduction to skydiving gear and equipment is provided here.

Skydiving Googles

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You won’t want to miss the view from above! Each of our tandem trainees receives a set of goggles to wear so they can protect their eyes while falling. A set of goggles designed to fit over your spectacles will be given to you if you wear them.

Adjustable harness

Four attachment points on the tandem skydiving harness ensure a solid connection between the participant, the tandem skydiving rig, and the tandem skydiving instructor. This harness will be given to you, and your instructor will make the necessary fitting adjustments.

Skydiving rig

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A skydiving container, often known as a “rig,” is the backpack-like object that houses the parachutes. Every container system used for skydiving must be a dual parachute system with a reserve parachute in addition to the primary parachute. The major parachute is what its name implies: the main parachute. In the odd event that there is a problem with the main parachute, the spare parachute acts as a fallback.

Automatic activation device

The Automatic Activation Device (AAD), a crucial piece of skydiving gear, is installed in every sky-diving rig used for tandem and student sky-diving. When a skydiver becomes disabled, a microprocessor computer inside the sky-diving apparatus opens the backup parachute.

Skydiving Helmet

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Impact-rated sky-diving helmets are utilized to help keep craniums secure because it’s crucial to safeguard that lovely brain of yours while sky-diving. An ABS and polycarbonate blend is used to create the skydiving helmet’s durable exterior shell, while foam is used to line the interior for a pleasant fit. You will put on an open-faced helmet as a pupil. A full-face helmet, or one with a face shield, can be purchased and used after you have received your license.

Jumpsuit

The jumpsuit is one of the simplest and most underrated pieces of sky-diving equipment. The sky-diving jumpsuit is, on the surface (pun intended), made to shield your skin from flying objects and provide your instructor something to hold onto while you fall. But as you gain experience, you’ll see how crucial a sky-diving jumpsuit may be to your development as a flyer. Jumpsuits are also frequently discipline-specific, with several styles being utilized for certain flying maneuvers (such as sleek and slick for free-flying or with booties and grippers for relative work).

Altimeter for skydiving

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A crucial piece of gear, the altimeter determines height using barometric pressure. The altimeter is required to make sure that you are opening the parachute at the proper altitude and time. Although the altimeters we give our students are analogue, once they have completed the AFF training program, students frequently use digital altimeters.

Audible altimeter for skydiving

A helmet-mounted audible altimeter that employs an audible tone to signal pre-set elevations is worn. To ensure that a jumper maintains height awareness during freefall and while under canopy, Audible altimeters are utilized in addition to Visual altimeters. This becomes increasingly crucial as jumpers engage in more complex canopy flying and activities like wing-suiting, which require extensive horizontal movement.

Flysight

Wingsuit and canopy pilots utilize a GPS tracking gadget called the Flysight. The Flysight emits an audible tone while skydiving or while under a canopy whenever there is a change in glide ratio, horizontal speed, or vertical speed. After landing, a person can review their sky-diving by plotting the GPS data from the jump as points on a graph. This enables jumpers to observe how adjustments to their body position affected the mechanics of their flight.

Main parachute

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There are several different types and sizes of the main parachute used in skydiving. The size and type of parachutist that a person chooses will depend on their experience level and the discipline of sky-diving that they are interested in.

A student skydiver will often use a parachute with a surface size of between 220 and 260 square feet, whereas the primary parachute used for tandem skydiving has a surface area between 340 and 360 square feet. In stark contrast, a professional skydiving canopy pilot frequently uses a main parachute that is less than 100 square feet in size!

Reserve parachute for skydiving

An equally vital element of sky-diving gear is the backup parachute. Although it is improbable that the primary parachute will malfunction, in the event that it does, the reserve parachute acts as a backup. The reserve parachute is made to be dependable and submissive, while the primary parachute may use a design to provide speed and increased maneuverability. In general, it is advised to make the reserve parachute larger than the primary parachute.

Visual altimeter

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It’s crucial to keep track of your altitude when skydiving. The altimeter is another essential piece of sky-diving gear because of this. Barometric pressure is measured by altimeters to calculate altitude.

Both analogue and digital timers are available. Analogue models resemble a watch face quite closely, with the exception that they only have one hand. To show altitude, a single hand “ticks” around the face, moving anticlockwise as altitude lowers and clockwise as height increases. Although it likewise measures altitude, a digital altimeter shows it to the wearer in a digital form.

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