Welcome to Tandem Skydiving
Tandem Skydiving specialises in providing for you tandem skydiving, AFF training and static line freefall training.
Tandem skydiving is the experience of jumping from a plane into thrilling freefall then opening a parachute and gliding like a bird to the ground whilst strapped to an expert with your best interests at heart.
more on r.petters - skydiver with over 35 years of experience"I take pride in giving every customer a memorable skydive, ensuring they are well informed of the process and taking them through each step of their skydive experience" - Richard Petters
Who we are?
Tandem Skydiving is operated by Richard Petters. Richard is a fully qualified instructor in AFF, Static Line and Tandem Skydiving.
Richard has had over 35 years experience in this sport and is an inspiring, confident skydiver and instructor.
Although skydiving can be a dangerous sport it is also incredibly fun and Richard imbues his clients with understanding of technique and confidence in both his and their own ability.
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"I personally guarantee you the best adrenaline rush of your life. I cannot express how it felt, you just have to do it to know." - John Causer
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Want to go Tandem skydiving?
Are you ready for the thrill of your life? Well you've come to the right place, Tandem Skydiving is one of the best ways to experience an adrenalin pumped extreme experience.
How do people get into skydiving as a sport?
Try taking a few lessons and do a couple of tandem jumps where you are attached to the front of an experienced Instructor. If the sport suits you, then you can even go through more extensive training schools.
Many people make their first jump with an experienced and trained instructor - this type of skydive may be in the form of a tandem skydive. During the tandem jump the jumpmaster is responsible for the stable exit, maintaining a stable freefall position, and activating and controlling the parachute. Other training methods include static line, and AFF (Accelerated Free fall).
A typical jump involves individuals jumping out of an airplane at approximately 4,000 meters (around 13,500 feet) altitude, and free-falling for a period of time (about a minute) before activating a parachute to slow the landing down to safe speeds (about 5 minutes).
When the parachute opens (usually the parachute will be fully inflated by4000 feet) the jumper can control the direction and speed with toggles on the end of steering lines attached to the trailing edge of the parachute, and can aim for the landing site and come to a relatively gentle stop. All modern sport parachutes are self-inflating "ram-air" wings that provide control of speed and direction similar to the related paragliders. By manipulating the shape of the body a skydiver can generate turns, forward motion, backwards motion, and even lift.
When leaving an aircraft, for a few seconds a skydiver continues to travel forward as well as down, due to the momentum created by the plane's speed (known as "forward throw"). The perception of a change from horizontal to vertical flight is known as the "relative wind", or informally as "being on the hill". In freefall, skydivers generally do not experience a "falling" sensation because the resistance of the air to their body at speeds above about 50 mph (80 km/h) provides some feeling of weight and direction. At normal exit speeds for aircraft (approx 90 mph (140 km/h)) there is little feeling of falling just after exit. Skydivers reach terminal velocity (around 120 mph (190 km/h) for belly to Earth orientations, 150-200 mph (240–320 km/h) for head down orientations) and are no longer accelerating towards the ground. At this point the sensation is as of a hard wind.
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