A aviação no lançamento de paraquedistas no Brasil

Abstract

Aviation has been used in the world today with several functions, and among them, it allows the practice of parachuting sports activities, known as skydiving. The process to operate a parachute jump operation involves several steps such as preparing the aircraft, observing the weather conditions and the jump run, a crucial step, where the athletes will leave the aircraft, changing all aircraft`s performance during the flight. This is an activity that has been increasing in Brazil due to the dissemination and growth of the sport. However, it has several additional points for aviation that considerably increase the dangers involved in the flight. And to manage these adversities, there must be efficient material that instructs pilots on how to precisely carry out the operation, which happens in Brazil but in a non-specific way. The study aims to understand how the entire operation works and the requirements that are necessary to perform skydiving from a plane in an aviation perspective. The operation was divided from regulations, weather conditions, responsible aircraft, and jump run, in step by step stages, through an extensive bibliographical research. The results that were obtained suggest that the additional risk comes from the fact that there are people outside aviation using the aircraft for a specific and critical operation which creates additional hazards at various points of the operation.It is advisable to study in depth the critical points of this operation in order to create palliative measures that will increasingly reduce the risks generated by the activity of skydiving operations. It is also suggested that there should be a creation of aeronautical events directly aimed at skydivers in order to develop in them a safety culture and how to perform better on board of the aircraft, making the activity of launching parachutists in Brazil safer for aviation.