How to choose the best skydiving shoes The best shoes to wear for skydiving should provide good heel and ankle support for landing, remain secure on your feet at 120mph, and be in usable condition. Sneakers work best, while shoes that can easily come off like sandals,...
Tandem skydiving on a commercial flight It sounds ridiculous, right? It is. For a number of reasons. One: everyone would have to pay double. Passenger airplanes are designed for long distance flights, not short ones where people are required to move around and fly...
Why aren’t there any parachutes on my plane? Although commercial air travel has become much safer over the years, some attentive flyers may still notice that passenger airplanes don’t have parachutes. Nervous travelers may feel exposed and fixate on their perceived...
This is our DZM and S&TA Vitaum’s ultimate two-cents on safety … no techniques, no tricks … just a clear notion of things. From our DZM and S&TA’s notes: My dear diary… naaah, scratch that… Stardate 200328.3, Quarantine Day...
Skydivers need to use parachutes because those are the apparatuses that give human beings the ability to reduce their falling speed enough that they are able to land safely on the ground. That’s the short version, so let’s look at the physics behind this...
Coronavirus Update for Skydivers There is a lot of information and misinformation regarding the recent coronavirus outbreak, so we at Silicon Valley Skydiving & Silicon Valley would like to share some knowledge and help keep you informed. Here are some important...
