Parachute Equipment

Each parachutist is to be equipped with:

1. (a) For accelerated free fall students, a piggy back harness/container that has ripcord activated, spring loaded, pilot chute deployed main and reserve parachute and is equipped with an automatic activated device on the reserve parachute.
2. (b) A light when performing night jumps.
3. (c) For students (not including tandem passengers) a rigid helmet.
4. (d) For each individual free fall student and jumpmaster, his/her own visually accessable altimeter.
5. (e) Supplementary oxygen for all jumps over 15,000 feet above mean sea level (AMSL).
6. (f) Flotation gear when the exit point, opening point or landing point of a parachutist is within one mile of an open body of water.

(Effective May 23, 1986)