A highly respected rigger was visiting a drop zone and noticed a rig laid out on the packing floor after a jump.

A skydiver with 400-plus jumps changed out their main canopy and then made about 75 jumps on the rig.

Cutaway cables are not universally interchangeable.

USPA Instructor Examiners often encounter questions as to what constitutes a rating-renewal seminar. And they often receive blank stares followed by crickets when they ask, “What did you do for your rating-renewal seminar?”

At Skydive Arizona in Eloy, veteran canopy formation skydivers Kevin Vetter (top) and Pat Marcanio (center) teach Julia Wilde the finer points of taking docks as she learns the discipline.