I am a Deputy Sheriff in Indiana. When I was going through the applicant screening process for my department they asked specifically about skydiving during one of the psychological tests. I decided to answer honestly and told them I was a jumper. The way that test works is that you fill out a book with about 700 questions ( seriously ) , the computer grades them to throw out the lunatics , then a psychologist builds a profile of you and calls you back in a few weeks and they have you go deeper into the things they didn't like about your responses. A couple of weeks pass and I go to my session and the guy starts off by asking about my answer to the skydiving question. I end up explaining to the guy how safe the sport is now days, the amount of training that is involved and how much safer modern rigs are with AAD's and stuff like that. I went on to tell him how the sport has actually helped me out in other aspects of my life. He seemed satisfied with my answers and ended up passing me.
