Skydiving Gift Certificates for Static Line Jumps

If you’re thinking about buying skydiving gift certificates, your first decision will be what kind of instruction you want to sign up for. In tandem jumps and accelerated freefall, instructors are physically present with the student during the jump. The third and oldest method of sky diving instruction is called static line progression, and you have instructor in the plane (and probably on the ground via radio), but not right next to you in the air.

The first skydiver was a Frenchman jumping from a hot air balloon in 1797. Skydiving technology stifled for over a hundred years, then was advanced rapidly during World War I and then again during World War II. The civilian parachute enthusiasts responsible for today’s sport jumps have their roots in military jumps, and by proxy static lines.

While it may be the static line progression may be the oldest method, it is well proven through thousands of jumps. Static line is still in use by military paratroopers today, and also by the smoke jumpers who fight fires. Skydivers hookup a static line to the aircraft, which then automatically deploys the chute after a few seconds a freefall; typically just enough to ensure the jumper is safely clear of the airplane. A reserve parachute can also be triggered by an Automatic Activation Device, which will deploy if minimum safe altitude is passed at freefall speeds.

Sky diving courses teaching static line progression typically have between four and six hours of ground school. The student skydiver is then taken to an altitude between 3000 and 4000 feet for the jump. The plane used is typically a small Cessna, and the jumper actually hangs off the wing strut until the jumpmaster gives the jumper the okay.

It takes an incredible force of will to let go of that strut and drop into the sky below. Fortunately your chute deploys automatically as the static line goes taunt. At that point all you have to do is a quick safety check to make sure the canopy inflated correctly and then it’s a scenic ride to the ground. Most schools have an instructor on the ground who talks to you over the radio and directs you to the drop zone target.

After a couple of good static line jumps, the student is trained to pull a dummy ripcord. If things continue to progress well, the student gets to pull real ripcord as soon as they exit the aircraft. The jumps progress with more time between exit and pull, and from higher altitudes.

With sign off from United States Parachute Association instructor, and 25 jumps to their credit, a student can become a class A licensed skydiver, which allows them to jump that any drop zone in the United States without additional supervision. Sky diving gift certificates for static line jumps are the time tested it and reliable method to train new skydivers.