How to be prepared for parachute jump

How to be prepared for parachute jump

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The parachuting is very dangerous, and therefore it is necessary to prepare for each jump carefully. It is not only about the conversation with experienced instructors and passing of preliminary specialized preparation, but even about the choice of clothes.

It is authorized to jump with the parachute not everything. If the mass of your body is lower than 45 kg or higher than 95 kg, it is necessary to refuse the jump. The same concerns also the people having diabetes, epilepsy, mental diseases, the hypertension, diseases of the middle ear. At cardiovascular diseases and any fouls of work of the musculoskeletal system it is necessary to consult previously to the doctor and to specify whether you can jump with the parachute.

If it became clear that it is authorized to you to do so extreme sport, go to airfield and agree about the jump, and then start preparation. First of all it is necessary to choose correctly clothes and footwear as safety of the jump will depend on it partly. The clothes have to be dense, closing all body except for the person. At the same time it is very important that trouser-legs and sleeves most densely adjoined to the body. Footwear has to be high, with the flat sole. There is also one more very important requirement: neither on footwear, nor on clothes there shouldn't be details by which the parachutist can be hooked for slings. It is about velcros, triggers, the sticking-out buttons and so forth.

Going to airfield in day of the jump, take a little food and drinks. It will be appropriate in case you have to spend for registration, instructing passing and so forth there is a lot of time, and you will get hungry. It is not about discomfort, and about safety: grown weak for hunger or thirst of people which besides very much worries before the jump it can appear all isn't able to execute correctly. However it isn't necessary to take alcoholic beverages at all or to use them in day of the jump to take courage. Believe, to jump with the parachute in alcohol intoxication very dangerously. Just before the jump the instructor will in detail explain to you as as it will be necessary to do. You will be told about the sequence of actions, about what gestures will be used for "conversation" with you by the releasing instructor when you appear highly over the earth and because of the roar of the plane you won't be able to hear words. Try to remember everything that you will be told. Don't worry, you will cooperate with skilled professionals who will be able to organize the jump in the best way and won't allow unpleasant incidents.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team

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