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Skydiver's Information Manual.



^^^ This. But if you're the type of person who really likes to read and learn by reading, a couple other suggestions:

Brian Germain's "The Parachute and its Pilot". Read it now. Read it again at 100 jumps. Then again at 200. And again at 500.

Also, read everything Brian Burke has ever written about safety in skydiving. Probably read that again at 100 jumps too, once you have a better appreciation of what he's talking about and why it matters.

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Taught myself to sitfly early on reading this guys stuff.>[/url]http://parachutistonline.com/columns/profiles/pat-works-d-1813[url]
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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Do something that many in skydiving don't seem to do and read the manuals for your gear!

"So many fatalities and injuries are caused by decisions jumpers make before even getting into the aircraft. Skydiving can be safe AND fun at the same time...Honest." - Bill Booth

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http://www.amazon.com/Parachuting-Skydivers-Handbook-Dan-Poynter/dp/1568601417

The classic book. A little behind the times but still all information you need to be a well informed jumper. Of course in 1979 I read every previously published issue of the USPA magazine Parachutist.
I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
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FAA DPRE

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The previous are all good practical suggestions. On a little bit more of the lighter side try "Bedtime Stories for Skydivers", "United We Fall", and for a visual history of jumping, the 3 volumes of "Skies Call". I believe they are all out of print but used copies are easy to find on Amazon. I have gotten a lot of ideas and had a lot of fun from the stories and the photo's. Also for some amazing "there I was..." stories try "The Wild, Wonderful World of Parachutes and Parachuting!" These books were all written before we started taking ourselves too seriously!

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All great suggestions above. If you enjoy (or at least have a tolerance for) textbooks, here are two excellent free downloads from the FAA:


"Pilot's Handbook Of Aeronautical Knowledge"

http://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/pilot_handbook/media/FAA-H-8083-25A.pdf


"Risk Management Handbook"

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/risk_management_handbook/media/risk_management_handbook.pdf
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The previous are all good practical suggestions. On a little bit more of the lighter side try "Bedtime Stories for Skydivers", "United We Fall", and for a visual history of jumping, the 3 volumes of "Skies Call". I believe they are all out of print but used copies are easy to find on Amazon. I have gotten a lot of ideas and had a lot of fun from the stories and the photo's. Also for some amazing "there I was..." stories try "The Wild, Wonderful World of Parachutes and Parachuting!" These books were all written before we started taking ourselves too seriously!



Good suggestions. I'd also add two recent additions to the "stories from the old days" canon, "Sugar Alpha" by Melissa Nelson and "Above All Else" by Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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"United We Fall" by Pat and Jan Works is from back when skydivers were equated with out law bikers and we the celebrated the 'pure joy of flight'. Always a good read for us old farts missing the good old days. Maybe should be required reading for every second jump student. After all we can let the one jump wonders in on the secrets.;)

Available in it entirety on line at http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~esj/uwf/uwf.html.

Thanks Pat and Jan.

Oh, and Jonathon Livingston Seagull.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

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