At this time you can now gather your thoughts and just enjoy an easy ride back down to Planet Earth! Your canopy ride will generally be anywhere between minutes until you land. This is truly an unforgettable adventure!
After you land, your instructor will help remove your harness. Please do not attempt to take your harness off by yourself. This is a life-saving device and should be handled by USPA certified professionals at all times. Don't forget to stop by the Check In counter after you land to sign your instructors logbook, pick up your tandem certificate and to book your next skydive. We love to chat with you and learn all about the amazing time you had on your skydive.
At Skydive Orange, that decision is entirely up to you! View skydiving prices for all of our skydiving altitudes and book your skydive today. Tags: freefall. One of the most amazing experiences of my life. Hard to describe the joy and exhilaration, you have to experience it for yourself!
The largest tandem skydiving center near Northern Virginia, Washington D. What do I take with me? How does it all work? While there are some logistical and procedural questions that will be answered as your jump approaches, the most important thing you really want to know is — what does freefall really feel like? There are a few things involved in freefalling from an airplane, so here is a bit of detail. Here at Skydive Tecumseh we regularly jump from 14, ft — which is the most common altitude skydivers want to jump from.
This is because it is the highest you can go in an unpressurized aircraft before needing supplemental oxygen, and jumping from this high gives you a skydiving freefall time of a whole minute. It is possible to go higher than this if you have the right equipment, and we do!
A skydiver in freefall travels at approximately ft every five seconds — so going up to 18, ft will give you a whopping one minute and twenty seconds of freefall time. Free-falling through the air at terminal velocity does not feel like you are falling. A stable head down position falling upside with your head toward the ground and legs up gets around mph kph.
Typically, terminal velocity for a tandem skydive is somewhere around mph — a little faster than a solo skydiver, due to the fact a tandem is two people together, but slower than head down skydiving. The fastest skydiver ever was Henrik Raimer of Sweden, who achieved The length of time it takes to fly down to earth under the parachute is dependent on the deployment height, parachute size, and weight.
Tandem skydivers usually deploy their parachute at 5, feet. As there are two people sharing one parachute, tandem parachutes are much larger than those used by solo skydivers — usually, over square feet, compared to half that for solo jumpers.
This results in a time under parachute of four to five minutes. An experienced, solo skydiver will usually spend two to three minutes under their parachute.
Though the actual skydive itself lasts around five minutes, the overall experience is much longer. A large part of the skydiving experience is, of course, the airplane ride up to altitude. Our Pac XL aircraft will take around minutes to reach our exit altitude of 13, feet. Different aircraft will take more or less time. Depending on the time you arrive, you may be asked to wait in line while other tandem skydivers make their jump.
In some cases, adverse weather conditions may mean operations are put on hold until it is safe again to jump. All of this means that you can expect to be at the skydiving center for your skydive for a few hours. Many of our customers choose to add a video package to their jump so they can relive the experience again and again. Are you ready to skydive?
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