page_title: Parachuting
section_title: Training
hierarchical_section_title: Parachuting / Training
caption_attribution_description: English: DC-3 loading; plus 'dirt diving' in the foreground - practicing exiting the aircraft on the ground, with 2 people 'playing the door', then sky divers run into the formation they'll attempt in the air, with the first two - 'base' and 'pin' connecting up and others 'fly' (run) into the growing formation. It doesn't always follow that the formation will actually get built in the air, but practice always helps. This C-47B (DC-3 - C-GSCB) was at the Goderich Airport in W:Ontario, W:Canada in 1977. These two planes, along with a Lockheed Lodestar, were supporting the Skydiving Jamboree as part of Goderich's Jubilee 3 celebrations. More info in the Goderich Airport article. Status of plane as of June 2020: C-GSCB, first flown in 1944, was in service until January 2020, when it joined the American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum in Dallas, TX&#91;1&#93;
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: DC-3 loading; plus 'dirt diving'; 1977
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