This CD is full (650 Mb.) of current and important skydiving reference information, photographs and lots of video... INCLUDING:
Parachuting: The Skydiver's Handbook (First Edition for CD-ROM), by Dan Poynter and Mike Turoff. This 400 page electronic book, recently revised, from Dan Poynter's 7th edition has been a standard and a "must read" for all skydivers, both novice and expert. Fully searchable and hyperlinked.
The Best of Parachutist Magazine. Eighteen of their best articles that supplement the Skydiver's Handbook and bring a sense of the culture and character of skydiving today. The articles cover every aspect of the sport; equipment, training, statistics, National and World competitions; freefall formation, canopy formation, speed style and accuracy, Freestyle and skysurfing.
Special sections on: Freestyle by Tamara Koyn; aerial videography, by Brian Rogers; Fixed Object or BASE jumping by Nick Digiovanni and the US BASE Association; The Golden Knights; advanced RW training, by Craig Buxton and Danny Page of Skydive University... and a lot more. "Did I say that this disc was full?"
About 58 minutes of video on first jump training, AFF, freefall and canopy formation, parachute packing, malfunctions, vertical wind tunnels, BASE jumping and some great footage of Freestyle and Skysurfing (especially some never released footage of Rob Harris, by Joe Jennings). The video is narrated and set to all new original music.
