Safety Day special – 6 of our greatest ‘staying-alive’ articles

Below are links to six of Skydivemag.com’s best safety articles, a summary of vital information to help keep you skydiving for years to come. 

It’s a Numbers Game

Skydiving is full of numbers – altitudes, jump numbers, wind speeds etc, so we chose a numbers-inspired theme:

• An Ounce of Prevention
• Two canopies out
• Three simple ideas that could save your life
• Four Critical Altitudes
• Five Things to Ask Before Downsizing
• Six Tips to avoid cutaways

An Ounce of Prevention

Flight-1 instructor Daniel McLaurin applies Benjamin Franklin’s timeless quote, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. The difference between an incident report and a close call can literally be fractions of a second. How to equip yourself with the knowledge and tools to handle these situations.

An Ounce of Prevention

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Two canopies out

Performance Designs made a series of test jumps for the PIA technical committee deliberately flying two square parachutes, as if the main and reserve open together. This article summarises the best course of action if they are flying in a biplane, side-by-side, a downplane, or entangled.

Two canopies out

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3 simple ideas that could save your life

Skydiving safety watchman Dan BC has three simple suggestions that have saved his life on more than 30 malfunctions. If faced with a high pressure, physically strenuous, time-sensitive situation are you ready to execute your EPs perfectly and without hesitation? 

3 simple ideas that could save your life

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Four Critical Altitudes

Bill Coe lists four vital altitudes for every jump and asks ‘Do you really want your AAD set so close to the edge that a one second pilot chute hesitation could be the difference between life and death?’

4 Critical Altitudes

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5 Things to Ask Before Downsizing

Downsizing is a topic that nearly all skydivers face at some point in their skydiving careers. If you’re thinking about downsizing, here are five questions you should ask yourself.

5 Things to Ask Before Downsizing

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6 Tips to avoid cutaways

Bruno Brokken hasn’t had a cutaway in 29 years! He shares six things that helped him to be jumping so long without cutting away.

6 Tips to avoid cutaways