Kimblair13 0 #1 December 6, 2006 Does anyone know if there are actualy statistics on how many people have done AFF, Tandem or SL for their first jump? I'm sure Tandem is number one as far as numbers...but am curious as to what those numbers are... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tdog 0 #2 December 6, 2006 Well I taught the FJC at our DZ almost every other weekend this summer. Our average AFF class had 8-10 people. On average: 20% Air Force Cadets who completed a AM490 program (multiple hop-n-pops with students doing solo freefall exits with a ripcord activated main and SOS system) 45% Tandem 25% No previous experience (So AFF would be their first jump) 10% "Static Line Years Ago" or "Static Line Military" or "Static line at some other DZ, but I wanted AFF" ---- If you subtract out the Cadets with military training... 56% Tandem 31% No Previous Training (AFF as First Jump) 13% Static Line ---- Since a tunnel is 1 hour away: 30% Tunnel time - (most likely Cadets or Friends of Skydivers) 70% No tunnel time ---- *Note - these numbers are off my rough notes, they could be a bit off - and they are based upon a DZ with high volume of tandems and no static line program. * Note - these numbers are going to be skewed because everyone in the class would be doing AFF as their next jump... At the same DZ - where 10 people would be entering the AFF program on a weekend, 50-200 a weekend would do a Tandem and never come back - so over 90% would be Tandem as their First (and most likely Only) jump. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Orange1 0 #3 December 6, 2006 QuoteDoes anyone know if there are actualy statistics on how many people have done AFF, Tandem or SL for their first jump? I'm sure Tandem is number one as far as numbers...but am curious as to what those numbers are... Just an obvious point, those statistics are going to depend on what time frame you are measuring over. & if you take all licenced jumpers, I'd guess a lot that have been in the sport for (?) 10-15 years + will come up SL. fwiw it may be country-dependent as well, it seems like many people in the US may start on tandems at the moment, but most of the licensed jumpers I know have never done a tandem (as a passenger/student, anyway!).Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
