Safety is paramount and we are always monitoring the weather before and during jump days. There are certain weather conditions that we do not jump in. Wind — the ground wind speeds are not allowed to exceed 20 knots. The minimum flight visibility must be at least 5km. We assess the weather at 5pm on the day before your jump and will notify you as soon as possible after 5pm if we think the weather will not be suitable for jumping.
We will not make any judgement on the weather prior to this time. Like any extreme sport, tandem skydiving does have risks attached. At GoSkydive your safety is our number one priority and that is put above everything else.
We are fully regulated by The National Governing Body for Skydiving sport parachuting — British Skydiving and we follow their guidelines.
We use the very best, industry leading parachute technology — the Sigma Tandem Parachute System and have a core team of full time professional tandem skydive instructors who collectively have done in excess if 50, jumps. Anyone believed to under the influence of alcohol or drugs will not be permitted to jump. Smoking is permitted in the designated smoking areas if you are not wearing a skydiving jumpsuit or harness.
Anyone wearing any GoSkydive kit is not permitted to smoke. Details for the medical advisor are available through the British Skydiving website. You can find more information relating to the medical form here.
Only specialist trained Tandem Skydive instructors are permitted by British Skydiving to use cameras whilst tandem skydiving. HR monitors can be worn during your tandem skydive if they are checked by a tandem master prior to your jump.
This includes chest strap HR monitors and watch HR monitors. If you have any questions, please contact us on info goskydive. You are not allowed to tandem skydive if you are pregnant.
If you fall pregnant after you have made your booking, you can postpone your tandem skydive 6 months after your due date. A 7,ft tandem skydive has 10 seconds freefall, a 10,ft tandem skydive has 30 seconds freefall and a 15,ft tandem skydive has 60 seconds freefall. At 5,ft your instructor deploys the parachute, it takes around 5 minutes until you land. In a tandem skydive the student is harnessed to an experienced instructor, sharing the same, larger than solo skydive, parachute.
It will be for the instructor to deploy the parachute following the initial free fall which can last from 5 to 60 seconds, according to the chosen altitude. The dual commands mean that the student is also able to practice parachute control during the flight; however, the final stages of landing are entirely managed by the instructor.
Bear in mind that much more training will be needed if you wish to pursue solo skydive jumping. Check-out our TripAdvisor , Facebook and Google reviews. We are the only centre in the UK to only work with tandem jumpers, which are mostly first timers. Yes, we have a simulated training area where students are suspended in their harness to go through the plane exit, freefall and landing positions — we are the only skydiving centre in the world to have this facility.
The alternative is laying over a 3ft high box and lifting up your arms and legs. The parachute container which looks like a back pack houses the main parachute and a reserve chute. The main parachute is packed on site by our own team of packers. Our Cessna Super Cargomaster is the fastest tandem skydiving aircraft in the UK and will get you to your jump altitude in 8 minutes.
Refitted to our specific tandem skydiving requirements, this aircraft was new to our fleet in May It takes up to 21 passengers but reaches its top speed, climbing to ft per minute, with just the pilot.
Filming with a GoPro camera from 15,ft at mph is a highly skilled operation and only those instructors who are jumping regularly and have a minimum of tandem skydives as a tandem instructor are permitted by British Skydiving to do this. No doctor wants to bear the responsibility, liability, or blame of asserting an activity is safe to participate in and then being culpable if there is an issue and something goes wrong.
Within this skydiving while pregnant discussion, there is a slightly different perspective to consider. You should know that you can skydive while pregnant if you are a licensed skydiver, you consider the risks, and make an informed choice to jump.
If you are a first-time tandem skydiver, however, you will be asked to refrain from skydiving while pregnant because of the considerable liabilities for all involved. Over many years in the sport, we have encountered many licensed skydivers who were also pregnant women that have made skydives during pregnancy with no ill effects to either themselves or their babies.
One of these remarkable, bump-sporting, pregnant licensed skydivers was multi-World Record skydiver and epic woman phenomenon, Melissa Nelson-Lowe. With baby on board, Melissa Nelson-Lowe jumped during her first trimester, and her son completed about 25 skydives in utero. While Melissa knew of several other skydiving moms, who jumped knowingly while pregnant, after determining she was with child, Melissa decided to take a break from skydiving and resume jumping after her son was born.
Though, we can all agree, an accident involving an expectant mother would be twice as tragic. Skydivers take calculated risks and consistently consider the ratio of risk to reward. But medical advice, as well as advice from other skydivers who have jumped while pregnant, can help you decide whether to continue jumping during pregnancy, and if you do, help you do it safely.
These days, doctors tell women with low-risk pregnancies that they can continue all their normal activities as long as they feel good enough, with the caveat that they should avoid sports that contain a risk of falls and should not exercise to the point of exhaustion. Women who have just started jumping should probably take a break from the sport.
Most women who have continued to jump during pregnancy were very experienced and very current. Many of them also say they were in good physical condition. William and Martha Sears in "The Pregnancy Book" counsel pregnant women to know their limits and to stop their activities immediately if they feel dizzy or short of breath, have a bad headache or hard heart-pounding or experience contractions, bleeding or pain.
Pregnant women should also go easy on their joints. Relaxing and other hormones loosen joints during pregnancy, making them less stable and prone to injury if overstressed. The pelvis, lower back and knees are especially vulnerable. Skydivers should take particular care in packing and at pull time so as not to jolt their loosened joints. A pregnant skydiver should pay attention to how she feels at all times.
Fatigue is normal, and you should rest as much as you need. First-trimester nausea is a fact of life for some women, and calling it morning sickness is inaccurate, many women feel sick all the time. Being under canopy may only make you feel worse.
Doctors don't allow pregnant women to take ibuprofen Advil and Motrin or any of the other effective analgesics, because they can cause difficulties with labor and harm the fetus. Acetaminophen Tylenol is OK, but bear in mind that if you sprain an ankle or worse, you won't be able to do much for the pain.
Obstetricians usually advise pregnant women to give up contact sports. As we all know, skydiving is sometimes more of a contact sport than we intend for it to be. Women who have jumped while pregnant often recommend that you be very careful about who you jump with, avoiding anyone whose freefall abilities might be suspect.
Washington-state load organizer Art Bori points out that exit position can be important for two reasons: A pregnant woman may have difficulty maneuvering into position, and some positions are more dangerous than others. He always asks pregnant jumpers about their exit preferences.
He tries to keep pregnant women out of the base so that they won't be in serious funnels. Can a hard opening cause a miscarriage? Scott Chew, a Colorado emergency physician and skydiver, says that no one has studied the effect of hard openings on pregnancy.
Most hard openings are less traumatic than many automobile accidents, and during opening, jumpers are in a different body position than car passengers, with no belt passing over the uterus.
He doesn't think a hard opening is very likely to precipitate a sudden miscarriage. He has never heard of a miscarriage occurring during skydiving, bungee jumping or rock climbing, all sports that use similar gear. According to Chew, women should also consider the possibility of a bad landing, although the baby is quite well protected in the uterine environment. Usually the jumper would get hurt first. Emergency room doctors make a practice of treating a pregnant woman before turning their attention to the fetus, because if the mother survives, the baby likely will as well.
Stanley Filip, associate clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center, says that because the rapid deceleration in skydiving can be analogous to a moderate-speed auto accident or a fall while skiing both are known to cause miscarriages , he recommends against skydiving while pregnant. On the other hand, the Sears say that miscarriages usually result from chromosomal abnormalities in the fetus, infections, hormonal deficiencies, immune-system abnormalities and environmental toxin such as drugs or cigarette smoke.
Sex, safe exercises, heavy lifting, usual work and play, stress or emotional upsets or minor falls or accidents rarely cause them. Registered nurse Marian Blackwell comments that the most important consideration is probably how the woman and her mate feel about the issue.
Any woman who fears that jumping might cause her to miscarry should not jump. Still, there is always a risk, and she advises that both parents need to accept this if the mother keeps jumping. What about hypoxia? He says, however, that the fetus is accustomed to an atmosphere less rich in oxygen than the mother needs and thus feels hypoxia less than an adult would. He adds that jump planes spend relatively little time at high altitudes, not really long enough to hurt the jumper or her baby.
Routine low-altitude jumps, the sort sport jumpers commonly practice, do not generally present a risk of hypoxia. USPA does not require the use of supplemental oxygen for low-altitude jumps but has made no recommendations specific to pregnant women. The FAA requires oxygen when required aircraft crew members are above 12, feet for more than 30 minutes and at all times above 14, feet MSL. Most women who have jumped during pregnancy say they did not have any trouble with hypoxia. Paula Philbrook, who participated in last year's way world record while pregnant, used supplemental oxygen on the attempts.
She used an oximeter to measure her oxygen saturation and found that at 13, feet with oxygen, her saturation level always stayed at 98 to percent. Without oxygen, her saturation stayed in the mids which her respiratory therapist found acceptable.
According to the therapist, as long as her oxygen saturation stayed above 90 percent, she remained in the safety zone. She used oxygen starting at 10, feet for jumps on which she went above 15, feet. She found herself short of breath at 21, feet when the oxygen went off in preparation for exit but always felt fine as soon as she got into freefall. Long-time style and accuracy competitor Nancy LaRiviere says a doctor advised her to use supplemental oxygen if she went above 5, feet.
She rented an oxygen bottle from a local medical supply house, used a cannula a tube used to breathe the oxygen from 3, feet to altitude, shut off the flow on jump run and left the bottle strapped in the plane. She sat at the back of the plane on all loads to make this convenient. Some skydivers and doctors worry that a jumper could get an air embolism, an air bubble in the blood - a danger associated with pressure changes and one risk of scuba diving.
Chew points out that the pressure differences involved in skydiving are not nearly as great as in scuba diving a jumper has to go to 17, feet to get to half atmosphere. So although a potential risk lurks, it does so less than in deep diving.
All skydivers and air travelers should refrain from air travel for 24 hours after scuba diving. Heat poses an added danger, especially in the first trimester. The Sears recommend that an expectant mother eat and drink regularly while exercising to prevent dehydration and hypoglycemia.
Pregnant women, particularly those further along, should be careful about flying in bad weather. Filip says that turbulent weather can sometimes stimulate pre-term labor and rupture of the fetal membranes, causing the amniotic fluid to leak.
High winds and turbulence also present the standard difficulties with landing. Many pregnant jumpers advise staying on the ground on windy days.
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