How long is skydiving fall?
Andrew Davis
The freefall portion of your skydiving experience is the most rapid part of your experience. As you might have guessed, freefall is the period of time that occurs between the time that you exit the airplane and the time that you deploy your parachute. If you fall during this period of time, you are falling free, but not necessarily falling freely! The reason for this is purely semantic: technically, the definition of freefall in physics is the downward movement of an object caused solely by the force of gravity.
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The standard jump height is 14,000 feet, which is the most common altitude from which skydivers wish to make their jump. Why? It’s because it is the highest altitude at which you can fly in an unpressurized aircraft without needing supplemental oxygen, and jumping from this altitude provides a skydiving freefall time of exactly one minute. It is possible to go even higher than this if you have the proper equipment, which we do have! The option to skydive with us from 18,000 feet is available to you – something that you will not find in many other places. The speed of a skydiver in freefall is approximately 1000 feet per five seconds, so ascending to 18,000 feet will give you a whopping one minute and twenty seconds of freefall time.
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It is important to note that the amount of time you spend falling when skydiving will be determined by two factors: how long it takes you to reach terminal velocity and the altitude from which you jump. If you plan to jump from a height of 10,000 feet, which is nearly two miles above the surface of the earth. You will experience a 45-second free fall from this height.