Parachuting: The Skydiver's Handbook

by Dan Poynter, Mike Turoff

Parachuting, The Skydiver's handbook is directed to those looking into the sport for the first time as well as the advance jumper. Every phase of skydiving, canopy flying, safety and equipment is covered. An appendix of skydiving terminology is included.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sports

408 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Since 1969, Dan Poynter has written and published more than 100 books including Writing Nonfiction, The Self-Publishing Manual, and The Skydiver's Handbook.

Dan Poynter's seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall Street Journal, and his story has been told in U.S. News & World Report. The media comes to Dan because he is the leading authority on book publishing.

Dan shows people how to make a difference and a living by coaching them on their book."

Reviews

[Ren]

Good read to understand the physics of skydiving and the effects of body positoning.

[Phil Breidenbach]

I don't know if I'll ever jump out of a plane, but if I do, I'm glad I read this book. It gave me a good idea of what all is involved in skydiving. From the history of it, the equipment and training needed to the possible bad endings, this book gave me a good once over. You might not be ready to jump after reading this book, but you'll have a real good idea what will be needed to make your first jump enjoyable!

[Michael Economy]

There's decent information here, but I think there should be better diagrams, and some of the descriptions are pretty hard to follow. There's a bunch of typos and the writing is a bit hard at times.

[Mirek]

Book for both static line and AFF students, but also good for repeating material after your course. 5 starts because sometimes it's pretty funny and include very nice skydiving quotations.

[Anis Proudman]

Great book especially when you are starting out with skydiving. The book is still relevant and very helpful.

[Dmitry Verkhoturov]

It may be a good book for a beginner, but non-ci measurement and lot of USA specific in it makes it very hard to make use of it for non-USA skydiver.

[Dot Riley adi]

Very useful if you do the sport!

[Caden]

A little outdated but very enjoyable nonetheless.

[Boris Grozev]

A good read, even tough quite out-dated now.