How many miles have you fallen in skydiving?

[Dionysus 0]

So I'm sitting here letting my mind wander, at work , and I made the following calculations.
I have 447 jumps. Now some of those jumps are hop n' pops so I'm going to figure that the average exit altitude for all of them comes out to 12,000ft. So 12,000 X 447 = 5,364,000ft and 5,364,000ft/5,280ft (one mile) =1,015.91 miles. To take this a bit further let's say my average opening altitude is 3,000ft. That means 3,000 X 447 = 1,341,000ft or 253.98 miles. My average freefall distance is, given the opening of 3,000ft, 9,000ft. So 9,000ft X 447 = 4,023,000 or 761.93 miles.
Therefore the final numbers are, in 447 jumps, I have descended a total of 1,015.91 miles. 761.93 of those miles are freefall and 253.98 are under canopy.
If I were to drive from Mile Hi to Perris the trip would be about 1,050 miles. I'm only 34.09 miles from "falling" to Perris!

[flyangel2 2]

Too much work, makes my brain hurt

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[wildcard451 0]

You must be bored.

[Dionysus 0]

I think that post may have overheated the circuits a bit. Now I need a nap. Will somebody wake me up at quittin' time?

[riddler 0]

About 610 miles. Not even enough to get to the coast from Denver.

Edit - I think I did it a little shorter than you. I know my freefall time - convert to hours, then multiply by 120 MPH average speed.

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[Tonto 1]

7121.21 Miles.. (or 11393 km for the metric types) of freefall.

Plus 2670 Miles vertically under canopy. (or 4272 km)

With a glide ratio of an easy 3:1, thats 8010 miles (12816 km) distance travelled under canopy..

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[Guest]

How about almost Five miles in one jump?

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[billvon 3,120]

10,700 miles.

[Viking 0]

here is another thread thats done this.
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=879123;search_string=how%20many%20miles;#879123

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[Dionysus 0]

Well, so far Billvon is the winner here. He has "fallen" from California to Hawaii and then to New York where he turned around and is now only a couple hundred miles from California. Way to go!
Tonto you're kind of slacking. You have gone from California to Hawaii then headed east and are now about 450 miles from New York. However, I'm not even sure if you made it to California from South Africa to begin with.

[Tonto 1]

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Tonto you're kind of slacking.

Yeah, I know.. It's those dodgy piston engined Cessna's starting out at DZ's 5000 ft AMSL in the summer heat which gives a much lower ceiling than the US... That and 750 CRW dives (That I never added in as extra canopy time) and the 750 Tandems that made me pull earlier too...

3rd world skydiving SUCKS!

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[tdog 0]

Great minds think alike... I did this math a while back at work too.

I of course added in the wind tunnel time when I did my math. ;-)

Travis

[billvon 3,120]

>Way to go!

Well, the ~100 jumps from above 15K (and the 30 at or above 25K) helped there. Plus making most of my working jumps at a DZ that went to 13.5 regularly.

[riddler 0]

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I of course added in the wind tunnel time when I did my math. ;-)

Oho! Now we're adding tunnel time. Let's see - that would be about 1690 miles for me with tunnel time

Still not enough to get an upgraded frequent flyer seat

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[artistcalledian 0]

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>Way to go!

Well, the ~100 jumps from above 15K (and the 30 at or above 25K) helped there. Plus making most of my working jumps at a DZ that went to 13.5 regularly.

how did you manage to jump from that alti?

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[shropshire 0]

About 200ish miles and 4feet...... the 4 footer was when I fell out of the plane whilst loading

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[riddler 0]

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Shocked how did you manage to jump from that alti?

Jumping from 25K isn't that hard. You just have to get invited on the world-record big-way attempt. No big deal

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[Dionysus 0]

Sorry Travis you can't count tunnel time. Tunnel time isn't really traveling, unless you count all the bouncing up and down off the net. Now if it was counted I would have left California and just arrived in Hawaii.

[billvon 3,120]

>how did you manage to jump from that alti?

Which one? Bigways go to 16.5K pretty regularly with O2, and the 300 way and 357 ways went to 25-26K, which is about as high as you can go without bailout oxygen. I've been to 30K once with bailout O2.

The 13.5K? Bug the pilot a lot, buy him lots of beer, and flash him once in a while. (Warning - get a hot chick to do this unless you want him to be letting you out at 10K.)

[BIGUN 1,488]

Way back in the dark ages, someone started the 100 Mile FreeFall Club. I still have my certificate from 1982/3.

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[peacefuljeffrey 0]

We're talking about flying, here, which uses knots, primarily. Why not use the standard for a nautical mile -- 6076 feet?


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[cpoxon 0]

I've carried a logging device with me for 1500 of the 1600 skydives that I've carried out so I can say with some degree of accuracy that for me it is:

2,936.40 miles Freefall
920.17 miles Canopy
3,856.57 miles Total

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