Comments on: Skydiving Into a Falling Airplane.

By: Altidude

Altidude — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:13:05 +0000

Jason is talking about docking with another skydiver in freefall, obviously. That's a fundamental part of sport skydiving. Docking with a plane is not. For anyone interested, I have some examples of freefall docking here, and you can see the original plane-chasing experiments and other nutty skydiving business on Joe Jennings' DVD "Good Stuff" at JoeJennings.com.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:34:53 +0000

Docking in mid-air is one of the last skills a skydiver learns on the way to receiving his "A" license. I had to repeat that lesson four times before I finally got it. I've been working on it with a friend of mine who's roughly the same skill level (most definitely not an instructor) for a couple of weeks and finally succeeded. This is a really neat trick. As for the motivation--does "because it was there" still count for anything?

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:36:57 +0000

Now that was cool. I wish I can do sky diving one day.

By: andy

andy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:30:17 +0000

flippin' sweet