What are the aims of sky diving?

Answer 1

Essentially, the aims of skydiving are as follows:

1. To exit an aircraft and experience the joy of freefall.
2. To open your main parachute safely at an altitude of not less than 2500ft.
3. To navigate to the dropzone (you should open above it), avoid canopy collisions and land safely back on the dropzone.

The freefall part of skydiving is the most enjoyable part and experienced skydivers do not go through each jump, wondering if they will make back to terra firma without an accident. Instead, they are concentrating on falling relative to their friends and trying to achieve an objective. That objective can be for example docking on a formation, tracking (moving forwards) in a group, performing an artistic routine.