One key safety innovation was the "AAD" or automatic activation device --
which can automatically activate a jumper's reserve parachute in the event the
jumper is disabled or disoriented or has otherwise lost track of altitude. AADs
have been around for
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years, but until the early 1990s they were notoriously inaccurate, having overly
broad margins for altitude errors. In 1990, a German innovator named Helmut
Cloth introduced a much-improved AAD known as the "CYPRES", or Cybernetic
Parachute Release System.
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recreational activity. Out the 30 deaths in 2,000,00 jumps made each year, 90%
of those were by experienced jumpers who made poor judgment calls or exceeded
their own limitations. Not by first time tandems or students!
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