Accuracy landing

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Accuracy landing is one of the oldest skydiving diciplines.

In a competition accuracy is jumped as a team event with 5 persons on each team over 8 rounds. The entire team jumps (all together) from an altitude of 900 to 1100 meters (2700 to 3300 feet). Organizers often choose to use the 900 meters altitude. Scores for each round are added together, and the score you get counts both as your individual score and as part of the team score. In some competitions only the four best scores count in the team competition. The score is measured in meters from "dead center". The best score for each round is 0,00 meters (meaning you hit dead center) and the worst score for a round is 0,16 meter (16 centimeters or 6 inches).

Dead center is a circle with a diameter of 3 centimeters (a little over an inch). The disk measures the distance from the edge of the dead center circle to the point you touch the disk, in increments of 1 centimeter (0,01 meters). On the picture to the right you can see the electronic scoring disk and the yellow dead center mark. In the picture you can see the electronic disk with the yellow dead center.

Technique

Because most jumpers often land on their feet, most try to touch the dead center mark with the heel of their shoe. After the first 8 rounds are completed, the team competition ends and winners are declared. Based on the individual results, the best half of the skydivers do one individual semifinal jump where the score is added to the individual score. Based on this score the best half of the remaining skydivers make it to the last and final round. If the 3 first places are shared between skydivers with the same score, there are re-jumps to "sudden death". This means that different scores separate the skydiver for each of the first 3 places. In some competitions the organizers choose to use the skydiver with the most dead centers as the better skydiver.

External links

http://www.fai.org/parachuting/documents/.

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