For excellent reasons, flight simulators have helped train aircraft pilots for decades. And sadly we have lost skydive brothers and sisters who simply made a bad decision under canopy. Now what gets us out of bed in the morning is to bring you a virtual reality parachute flight simulator to help foster a wider, deeper, more-informed awareness of safety above our drop zones.

Ronnie Hughan on 28th February and 1st March 2023 presented on “Virtual Reality as a Training Tool” at the Parachute Industry Association Symposium.

Practice

Human beings learn best by doing. We want to enable skydivers to sharpen their decision-making under canopy— with realistic, relevant, real life scenarios. Check out our virtual reality parachute flight simulator we call skydiVR. It is designed to complement and enhance existing parachute flight instruction tools and techniques. An example of Instructor Brian Germain working with a student is here.

To help skydivers make better decisions under canopy.  We aim to do this in three specific ways:

Promote Conversation

With the ability to practice, we want to promote respectful and informed discussion. To increase every skydiver's comprehension of safety in the airspace above our drop zones.

Build Community

We share the sky with each other, and as a community we build a wider, deeper understanding to keep more smiling skydivers around and bring our sport to others.