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Tandem skydive is it a straight fall or wind blown and down?

I am doing a tandem skydive and would like to know if the fall is straight down or is it blown sideways and down

You are asking about drift, and yes, skydivers do drift during free fall due to the winds.

In fact we consider wind drift a lot, it is one factor in how much separation we put between groups of jumps, where to exit the aircraft, when to deploy the parachutes… there is a lot to consider.

There was on day that we didn’t get a good report of the winds at altitude and I was doing a two-way belly jump. We go blown nearly a mile north of the dropzone in the 50 seconds of free fall. With strong winds neither of us made it back to the landing area. It turns out that the other jumpers in the plane didn’t jump, they watched our exit and saw that we were pushed north so quickly that they reset jump run to the south.

Enjoy the jump! There is nothing better than skydiving! I’ve been jumping for a few years and every weekend gets better and better!

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