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Tandem skydiving or tandem parachuting refers to a type of skydiving where a student skydiver is connected to an instructor via a harness. The instructor guides the student through the whole jump from exit through freefall, piloting the canopy, and landing. The student needs only minimal instruction before making a tandem jump with the instructor.
The recommended height for a first-time tandem jump is at least 10,000 feet to give about a minute in free fall, where you are rushing toward Earth before you need to deploy the parachute. My jump ...
Bill Booth appears as a part of a waiver and introduction-to-skydiving video shown to first-time tandem students who jump with the Vector Tandem system. He acted as the seaplane pilot and bartender in the 1993 film The Firm, starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. He played a small role as a bearded skydiver in the 2000 feature film Cutaway
A Lodi skydiving instructor found guilty of fraudulently using a colleague’s credentials to teach the risky sport was sentenced Monday to 24 months in federal prison followed by 36 more months ...
Tandem skydiving has maintained an excellent safety record in the state. A new law will only raise the cost. Bad U.S. Congress bill could ground Hoke County skydiving businesses.
In the early days of BASE jumping, people used modified skydiving gear, such as by removing the deployment bag and slider, stowing the lines in a tail pocket, and fitting a large pilot chute. However, modified skydiving gear is then prone to kinds of malfunction that are rare in normal skydiving (such as "line-overs" and broken lines).
A number of techniques are employed for teaching, although most include getting the student familiar with handling the wing either on the ground, via towing, small hills, or on tandem flights. With special gear, it is possible to take a passenger (tandem), but most countries, including the U.S., require some form of certification to do so.
Two people were killed Sunday after a tandem skydiving accident in New South Wales, a state in southeastern Australia.