The Dropzone

Technical

Real, solid, useful skydiving information. Facts about skydiving, not attempts to be funny. Opinions must be declared as such. Forum ruthlessly moderated.

The Red Zone

A series of managed and focussed discussions based around "The Red Zone, Specific Risks in Sport Parachuting", by Dave Wilkie. His elegant and concise topics; your questions, stories, anecdotes and mishaps.

The Nineteen Commandments of Tandem Parachute Operations

Moderated forum, posts require approval.

Last February at the Parachute Industry Association Symposium, representatives from all three U.S. tandem manufacturers (Nancy LaRiviere of Jump Shack, Bill Morrissey of Strong Enterprises and Mark Procos from United Parachute Technologies) and Frank Carreras from Germany (a tandem examiner who is rated for all U.S. and European tandem systems) joined together to give a presentation entitled, “The 19 Commandments of Tandem Parachute Operations.”

Departments

1. "No Shit, there I was...",
2. Dealing with Airlines etc,
3. The 2006 NPRM - closed Tue 22 Aug,
4. NPRM - New OpRegs

Safety, Aircraft, Development, Rigging, Judging... it's the Technical Conference you have when you can't get to the conference :-)

Forum of the Long White Cloud

Wondering if our Kiwi friends want to play. EnZed specific news and entertainment. Applications for Moderation of this forum now in play.

Australian Fatalities

Moderated forum, posts require approval.

If you've got questions or FACTS about an fatality, post it here.

Incidents and Occurences

For non-fatal events that we can all learn from. Posts do not require approval, and may be moderated for educational purposes.