Skydiving: Jon's Cat8 Jump

My Category 8 jump qualifying me as a Skydiver. Done at Peterlee Parachute Centre (UK), video footage courtesy of Dave Leanord.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• skydive
• skydiving
• RAPS
• parachute
• cat8
• cat
• Peterlee

[cruiser277777]

if you go from the belly down position to pointing your head down and arms back i.e a dive, do you actually go any faster?

[JonskyGBR]

@cruiser277777 Hell yes, in belly to earth postion I average about 125mph, by "diving" I've managed 180mph. The record for speed diving is well over 300mph now :)

[cruiser277777]

@JonskyGBR no ****, nice. i was thinking terminal velocity but there you go :p

[JonskyGBR]

@cruiser277777 Well terminal velocity is just the name given to the speed when you stop accelerating due to the drag force you're creating equalling the gravity force. But if you change position you change your drag profile and will slow down or speed up accordingly. So adopting that dive position reduces drag a lot.

[itzko1]

whats the name of the song?? soudns liknda like a porno song.

[JonskyGBR]

It's a version of

"Blackout - Gotta have hope"

[jamesaddison81]

pretty sure it has to be minimum 18?

[01stursa]

lol wow , you should come to dunkeswell and jump the king , in theory i did it in 15 but i did one more dummy pull just for fun.

[JonskyGBR]

Show off :P

18 jumps minimum at Peterlee. Don't do unstable exit and backloops together. Nor Dive exit and tracking together. I did 3 stable falls to sort my spinning out, see "spinning around"

[01stursa]

umm i did RAPS course in 15 jumps 2 x Static line 3 X Dummy pull's 2 X 3 second delay's 2 X 10 second delay's 2 X 15 second delay's move to king air

1 X knees in breeze(got cleared for turns)

1 X unstable Exit + backflips

1 x Dive exit +tracking

1 x CAT8 jump