He placed third in the novice division of the target accuracy competition. He is a member of FarmHouse Fraternity. Eichelberger, who has made 72 jumps, said target accuracy is based on four jumps from 3,000 feet. Jumpers wait five seconds after exiting the aircraft to pull their rip cord. Then they attempt to guide themselves to a small target on the field below.
Judges measure distance from the target and then it is totaled.
Whoever has the lowest total distance wins the gold medal. On his first jump he was only 1.63 meters from the target, but his best was his third jump where he was just .76 meters away. Other members of the ISU team that went to the skydiving meet were Barry Lovelace, Rob Meyer and Pat Mink. Together with Eichelberger they participated in the four-way relative work competition, where they were judged on their formations in free fall, and placed eleventh out of 15 teams. For the the four-way relative event, a camera is mounted on a judge's head who skydives with the jumpers and follows the action from above.