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WHAT DICTATES THE WEIGHT LIMITS?

April 26, 2017dictates limits weight

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WHAT DICTATES THE WEIGHT LIMITS?

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All skydiving gear is Approved under a type certificate or Technical Standard Order (C-23 series) with the Federal Aviation Administration. Most Single-harness (harness for one person) systems and all of our student skydiving systems have a TSO certification maximum weight of 254 lbs., a 225 lb skydiver geared up ready to skydive will weigh somewhere between 250 and 254 lbs. The TSO maximum weight for our Tandem Parachute Systems are 525 lbs. With the weight of the tandem instructor, and gear, we can take a tandem student up to 240 lbs and still be within the 525 lb total maximum weight.