How
high do you go?
For your first static line jump you will be jumping from around
3,500 feet. As you progress with longer and longer freefalls you
height you jump from will also increase. By the time you are qualified
you will be jumping from between 12,000 and 15,000 feet which will
give you 45-65 seconds of freefall on each jump. Experienced skydivers
usually deploy their parachutes between 2000 and 3500 feet.
Is
it cold?
The higher
you go, the colder it gets. Most people have seen the outside temperature
of -50 degrees while on a plane trip abroad. Luckily it is rarely
that cold at the altitudes we skydive from! At 3500 feet (the altitude
you do static line jumps from) there isn’t much of a decrease
in temperature, by the time you get to 12,000 feet it is usually
10-20 degrees colder than it is on the ground. This isn’t
that a big a deal though as you never notice the temperature while
you’re in freefall!
That doesn’t
stop people wearing gloves and neckwarmers though – they are
recommended for jumping in the winter! In the summer it can be very
warm, even here in the UK! I have done jumps in the Lake District
in just shorts and T-shirt and not felt at all cold!
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