Commercial Considerations

Give yourself at least TWO months of planning prior to project start date. The more planning you have done and the more specific you are with your planning, the more likely you will be prepared, on time, on budget and achieve the desired outcome.
1. Plan for weather. 2. Understand compliance & approval times 3. Plan for two project windows of four days average.
1. Not accounting for every possible thing that can go wrong. 2. Not having a systematic documented process. 3. Not just understanding how equipment works but how it works 4. Not employing a team that can work under pressure during skydiving.
Look for operators who carry out skydive operations outside of day-to-day tandem tourism jumps or Accelerated Freefall student descents.
$300- $5000+ per hour Major cost is ferry time base to project location.
Personal parachutes are included in their aerial talent fee. Special requirement parachutes can cost anywhere from $4,000- $60,000

Regulatory Compliance

Qualifications issued by the Australian Parachute Federation Note: Based on project needs qualification identification is necessary to allow the responsible person to execute skydiving regulations within the limit of their qualifications.
Potentially. Aeroplanes, helicopters hot air balloons, micro lite aircraft, warbirds all can be used. Aircraft setup includes removal of seats, ensuring all aircrew are APF membership, special doors, wind deflectors, single point restraints safety knives and more.
Ensure your skydiving contractor has: • A Risk Mitigation plan. • Correct and complete paperwork • Incident reporting systems • Understand the words to use when taking to governing bodies or legal entities.
Aviation Safety Consultant appropriately qualified must directly supervise responsible person Based on a chain of command structure, operational appointments must be appointed.
Sports skydiving for fun, teaching students or participating in skydiving competitions is one side of our industry. Special operations are a completely different skillset very similar to the difference between being a flying instructor at a flying school vs. being a aerobatic pilot or an airline pilot.
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Safety Consideration

Effective communication between Pilot, Jump Master and Ground Control Officer. Ground Control Officer trained to assess meteorological condition limits.
• The size of the landing area that a skydiver can land in is based on their qualification. • Our team members are qualified to land in areas smaller than a football field. • Number of secondary open area’s in close proximity. • Proximity of skydivers landings to the general public.
License requirements dictate skydivers legally allowed to land in size designated areas. Buffer zone between landing zone perimeter and populous area.
Pilots are like people who drive cars. There are thousands of them out there, all with different license types, experience, ability, and aptitude. Ensure pilots have commercial qualifications, have drop experience and are analytical thinkers that can problem solve in high pressure situations.
Identify all high-risk potential threats, implement a control to minimise adverse outcomes. Paramedic on site and ensure emergency services are informed of the project.
Neutralise any or further risk of injury or danger and ensure all project participants are safe. Once an incident or serious industry has been identified, the Safety Officer is notified, and decisions are made based on sensible next steps. Initiate auxiliary plan to complete project.

Meteorological Consideration

A skydiver must not plan to land closer than 50 metres to the spectators if the ground wind speed exceeds 15 knots. A skydiving descent must not be made if the ground wind speed exceeds 25 knots during the day or 12 knots at night or any lower limit determined by the DZSO
All descents must be made in meteorological conditions that: • permit the target to be clearly visible throughout the descent; and • do not require the parachutist to enter cloud.
Yes If the previous discussion point regarding cloud cover are met.
Yes, but is uncomfortable. Imagine riding a motorbike with an open face helmet down the freeway at 100km/hr, it is like that.
Night descents must be made only under the following conditions: • The target is illuminated so that it is clearly • visible throughout the descent; and ground wind speed is below 12 knots. • Night vision quarantine requirements must be enforced, and specialised equipment used on • practice descents within a month of project at a APF training organisation.
Yes, but there are special requirements based on carriage of dangerous goods. - The pilot in command and safety consultant must approve pyrotechnics type based on intended use and carriage on board the aircraft, -The assembly for carriage of a pyrotechnic device attached to a parachutist incorporates a secure quick release feature. -Disposal must be in accordance with Work Safe best practices.

Media Creation

Start with what is the craziest idea you can come up with? Creative directors meet with our Senior Jump Director. In these series of meetings, this is where the story board comes to life and complexities discussed and an operations plan created.
• 6K and 8K Arri and Red Cameras • Black Magic, Panasonic Sony Portable Cinema Cameras and SLR’s • GoPros, Sony Action camera’s This is all based on: • camera weight & bracket engineering • Opening characteristics of parachutes. Note: Wearing the camera in freefall is relatively weight less, the challenge is when the technician opens their parachute and the associated snap force.
Rule of thumb: We will shoot and capture 10 seconds of useable footage properly choreographed at a minimum per descen
Parachutes Designs: Speed, Accuracy, Aerobatic, wingsuit, base jumping, cargo and more. Articles and modifications: Engineering requirements for dropping objects. Aviation Engineering orders. Some aircraft modifications require engineering orders from an approved aviation maintenance facility
Planning, planning, planning. • Early access to storyboard • Using the regulations to design the methodology. • Understand paperwork, permissions & approvals if necessary- 3 months. • Delivery allowances for specific equipment, technical staff, aircraft and manufacturer or delivery times. • Facilitate budget approvals to match project deadlines. Reputation is everything.

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