What is the distance a sky diver can travel horizontally after exiting an aircraft and before landing?

Answer 1

There is a form of skydiving called Wingsuit Flying that allows skydivers to cover distances in excess of 5 miles horizontally from altitudes of around 13,000 feet before deploying their parachutes. So all of you nimrods who think otherwise need to rethink your answers.

Answer 2

yet another vote for buddy = fool. The crews to the caculations to be sure precisely how plenty gas is mandatory to bypass from A to B... then upload basically a sprint extra. If all is going precise, the plane will land with basically adequate gas. on occasion, the place gas is extra decrease priced on the origination airport than the trip spot, the crews will load up on adequate gas to fly lower back and forth. if so, the plane of course can land with an astounding sort of gas. the only time it is dumped is a million) in an emergency, or 2) the runway is only too short given the complete weight of the plane.

Answer 3

Practically none at all. Gravity would take the skydiver vertical almost instantly.
Through body position, the diver can spin and angle towards or away from a spot, but still while travelling vertically.


EDITED:
People, horizontal is ACROSS, like in a line from my chest to your chest.
Vertical is DOWN, like when you jump out of an airplane.

Speed of the airplane has little to do with it, it's gravity. Unless you weigh zero, you'll fall DOWN, not ACROSS. You can even angle yourself in many directions, and for a long time, depending on what you're wearing, but you are travelling vertically at an angle, not horizontally at an angle.
Unless you're wearing wings.

Answer 4

He also didn't say that it had to be in free-fall. One of my friends claims to have done covert insertions from well off shore at moderate altitude using a large ram air canopy. Ah, here we are, the Wikipedia article coroborates his story:

"In a typical HAHO exercise, the jumper will jump from the aircraft and deploy his parachute at a high altitude, 10–15 seconds later after the jump (typically at 27,000 feet or so). The jumper will use a compass to guide himself while flying for 30 or more miles. The jumper will use way points and terrain features to navigate to his desired landing zone, and along the way, he must correct his course for changes in wind speed and direction; making for a tricky navigation problem."

So, more than 30 miles.

Answer 5

i disagree with the 2 previous answers.
the velocity of the aircraft will effect the potential horizontal distance that caqn be travelled as will the height from the earth that you exit from.
assuming instant terminal vel;ocity of gravity of 192 fps, and the sudden stop as non lethal the simple formula seems to be alt divided by 192 fps times the initial velocity for a max value.
for more realistic value realize that the friction generated by the body will slow the faller consideraqbly. my last physics class was a zillion years ago so i can't get more specific.

Answer 6

I have done 6 HALO jumps
and you can FLY yourself w/ suit
@ 1400 Ft. lateraly for every 3000 ft. of decent.
so at 28000 ft barring cross wind you could go @1 1/2 to 2 miles miles

w/o suit it's a lot less but still can,

WOW some of you people Answering don't have a clue !

Answer 7

according to newton, velocities in the x and y directions are independent of each other, therefore gravity pulling you down sill not affect how far you go horizontally before you get to the ground. your horizontal speed will be basically the same as the plane's was when you jumped,and it will stay that way untill the parachute is opened.

Answer 8

It would depend on how high the plane is, and how much drag (how big is the skydiver) applied.

Answer 9

It depends on how high the jump from

Answer 10

depends how high he is