Indoor Sky Diving

The New Craze Of Indoor Sky Diving

It is a common perception of a lot of people, they think that sky diving can only be carried out outside in open air. However now with the recent advancement in technical knowhow there is now an indoor version of the sport which is now carried out inside through a set of vertical wind tunnels.

A Description of the Vertical Wind Tunnel (VWT)

Wind tunnels that blow up air in a column are known as Vertical wind tunnels (VWT). This is usually used by most skydivers while learning how to sky dive and is also known as bodyflight.

The force of the wind that is generated upwards allows people to take off from the ground without the use of parachutes or diving from planes. The wind which is generated inside these tunnels moves at a speed of 120 mph vertically. This also is a falling humans speed although it can is different in every person depending on their weight.

Vertical Wind Tunnel s gives the same sort of feeling as the real skydiving and is usually referred to as indoor skydiving by most skydivers. The floating of a person in air due to the pressure generated by the wind tunnel is referred to as "bodyflight"

Bodyflight

Bodyflight is when you fly your body in mid while being in complete control in a prescribed technique. Control consists of rolls, sideways movement and different types of agile stunts while flying. Being an expert in BodyFlight allows skydivers to get nearer to one another while they are falling freely allowing them to get into formations and then move away from one another until they are at a distance where they can pull their parachutes without any danger.

Vertical Wind Tunnel s allows one to become an expert in various Bodyflight skills. This is usually used by various skydivers while training so that they can have an improved control over themselves in a freefall from the sky.

Using arms and legs to steer oneself for shift control by declining/escalating your body pull can help in carrying out Bodyflight. Alternatively, various methods which are used by jets can be used.

Various kinds Of Vertical Wind Tunnels

Indoor and Outdoor are the two major categories of Vertical Wind Tunnels; the outdoor kind can be either moveable or fixed. The moveable ones are usually used at displays or exhibitions and have to be rented for mega events such as a state fairs.

No walls around the area where the flights take place means they give a spectacular upshot for the people watching and the person who is flying.

You can fly either to a certain extent or completely with an outdoor vision using such wind tunnels. There are usually safety nets for some of the outdoor units in order to keep rookies from flying out of the tunnel area. Indoor types have two categories which are re-circulating and non-re-circulating.

Air is sucked from the buildings bottom portion in the Non Re-Circulating ones. Top portion is the place where the air finds an exit after passing the bodyflight area. Re Circulating types have a vertical ring and also contains a bodyflight chamber in the upside portion of the loop.

Such tunnels are typically used in areas where the weather is too chilly for the non re-circulating kind.

The main feature of Indoor types over the outdoor ones is their control over the airflow and also a control over different temperatures allowing to be used in different climates throughout the year.