2015 PIA MEETINGS & SYMPOSIUM, DAYTONA BEACH, FL 5 DAYS PACKED WITH SEMINARS Some of the most respected people in the skydiving industry Expo & education Hundreds of riggers and gear manufacturers Rigging, skydiving management, government, BASE Be the first to see what is new in the industry. COME AND JOIN US: PIA MEETINGS – March 26-29,

Guests in this show: Roberto Montanez – President PIA Curt Curtis – President Skydiving Museum & Hall of Fame Graeme Windsor – President IPC Jay Stokes – USPA National Director Curt Bachman – President Para Gear Equipment Company

Guests in this show: Ed Scott – Executive Director USPA Norman Kent – Photographer | Cinematographer Brad Turner – Australian Parachute Federation Tom Noonan Jen Sharp Gary Peek Klaus Rheinwald Michael Cooper Tony Uragallo – Tony Suits

Guests in this show: Alan Eustace – VP of Google – World Record of High Altitude Jump Jim Crouch – Director of Safety and Training USPA Dan BC – What each skydiver can do to make themselves and their drop zone as safe as possible John Hawke – General Manager Alti-2 Brad Turner – Australian Parachute Federation

Bill Booth – President UPT Seminar – 50 years in the skydiving – Inventions and Adventures

Guests in this show: James Cowen James L. Hayhurst – Director of Competitions USPA John Smyth MVO. BA(HONS) – UK Delegate to IPC | Honory Vice President BPA Gustavo Cabana – Aerial Cameraman Helmut Cloth – Air Tec Sandy Reid – Rigging Inovations Graeme Windsor – President IPC Marylou Laughlin – Director IPETA Sammy Vassilev

The secrets of a female tandem instructor will be reviled by Jen Sharp- one of the country’s leading female skydivers, owner of Skydive Kansas, holder of multiple USPA instructional ratings.   Jen is a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur, poisoned about skydiving, education and Internet.

Exclusively for Skydive TV – Alan Eustace is telling his story about his High Altitude jump – 135,908 feet. Google senior Vice President Alan Eustace, who is 57 years old, beat the world records for highest-altitude space jump in October 2014. A helium-filled balloon carried him 135,908 feet to nearly the top of the Stratosphere

Norman Kent in discussion with Sammy Vassilev about –  The increasing problems of the “GO PRO – Be a Hero” generation and the dangers associated with approaching camera flying lightly and unprepared – rising awareness and give solutions and potentially save lives. Importance of quality imagery to achieve a positive and desirable image of our sport.

Klaus Rheinwald  developed the competition rules for wingsuit competitions  around 10 years ago and refined them over that period with practical experience and feedback from the competitors and organizers before writing up and presenting those rules to the IPC for official recognition. In parallel, Klaus build a scoring system for this competition based on his

Gary Peek – a Skydiver, AFF and Tandem instructor/Examiner, Pilot, Load organizer, Author of aviation articles and electronics and computer consultant! Watch the story of his experience purchasing a Cessna 182 and converting it in to a jump plane.

Tony Uragallo have been making world class skydiving jumpsuits for over 30 years. In addition to his Manufacturing experience, he also draws on 40 years of skydiving experience. Watch Tony in a conversation about the upcoming  First FAI World Cup of Wingsut flying, Netheravon UK.  

Jim Crouch –  about  the fatal skydiving accidents in 2014 and his recommendations – how to avoid making the same mistakes.  

World Air Games 2015  

What each skydiver can do to make themselves and their drop zone as safe as possible    

   

   

   

James Cowan – will talk about  “Unusual Canopy Emergency Procedures” (dual deployments / collisions and entanglements). He has been one of the speakers at PIA Symposium since 1992 – providing sport and military jumpers with some critical key information on how best to avoid and deal with these deadly situations.    

   

Gustavo Cabana​ – professional skydiving photographer and videographer in every discipline. He is talking  about the secret of how to fly cameras in all skydiving disciplines for 26 years and still want to keep doing it.      

Graeme Windsor – President of IPC and Marylou Laughlin talking about the Upcoming Canopy Piloting world demo tour !