page_title: Parachuting
section_title: Training
hierarchical_section_title: Parachuting / Training
caption_attribution_description: English: VENEZUELA
context_page_description: Parachuting is a method of transiting from a high point to Earth with the aid of gravity, involving the control of speed during the descent using a parachute or parachutes. It may involve more or less free-falling which is a period when the parachute has not yet been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal velocity.
context_section_description: Skydiving can be practised without jumping. Vertical wind tunnels are used to practise for free fall ("indoor skydiving" or "bodyflight"), while virtual reality parachute simulators are used to practise parachute control.
  Beginning skydivers seeking training have the following options:
  Static line
  Instructor-assisted deployment
  Accelerated free fall
  Tandem skydiving
caption: A parachutist above Venezuela
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