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Seen two people with my own eyes. Most of the accidents nowadays are botched landings under high performance canopies (those accidents would be easily evitable if people weren't so stupid sometimes - ego kills.)

Seen it. To be honest we helped a bit with the popping out of said titties.

Except a really stupid low turn under canopy which could have easily killed me and i got hurt pretty bad i had a couple of more or less close shaves. For instance some guy who excited well before me, tried to fly head down and made considerable horizontal movement in the process and then pulled his parachute below me. I fell past his parachute (around 15ft away from me) at 120mph. That got my heart to work a bit more.

Right? It's mindboggling. Especially considering that the very stuff they consider to be "boring noob stuff" like flying a consistent pattern is the basic and arguably the most important skill for high performance landings and overall canopy piloting badassery. "I hope you have tons of fun going back to work on basics for 200 jumps when you already have 1000 jumps. If you survive long enough that is" :D

Depends on quite a few variables. You can expect between $35 and $55 per jumps depending on where, weather etc. Most of the time you get paid for each jump, so some people make a really good living while others are stuck with ramen noodles.