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>The big question is always, "How dangerous is skydiving?" Each year, about 30 people die in parachuting accidents in the United States, or roughly one person per 100,000 jumps. Look at the US Skydiving Incident Reports to get an idea of the types of problems that lead to fatalities. If you make one jump in a year, your chance of dying is 1 in 100,000.

http://www.uspa.org/safety/incident.htm

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There are significant differences based on type of jump too. Most first timers do tandem jumps with an instructor on your back. Those jumps have a fatality rate around 1 in 140,000 where static line jumps are closer 1 in 50,000. And the injury (not fatality) rate for static line jumps is around 1 in 200.

At the rates they do jumps, there appears to be about a 1-2% annual chance of a fatality. Would such an event end the business? If so, this would change the expected value and the true cost of a jump.

And "injury" probably runs the gamut from sprained ankle to "oh look, my femur is poking through my pants"

Ah, those odds sound better than driving, thanks.

Isn't that only relevant if you skydive instead of driving? :)

My daily commute is 18k ft - ground, you wouldn't believe how much I spend on gas.

Aren't you skydiving instead of driving when you are skydiving?

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