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Skydiving > Medical Consent

Last updated on 7th December 2010

You are required to complete a Declaration of Fitness form prior to your skydive and to take the completed form along to the airfield with you on the day of your skydive.

You do not have to be particularly fit to do a tandem skydive, a higher level of fitness is required for a Static Line Skydive or an Accelerated Freefall Skydive, but there are some medical conditions that require medical consent. If you suffer, or have ever suffered, from one of the listed medical restrictions or if you are 40 years of age or over then medical consent is required:

Epilepsy, fits, severe head injury, recurrent blackouts or giddiness, disease of the brain or nervous system, high blood pressure, heart or lung disease, dislocated shoulder, recurrent weakness or dislocation of any limb, diabetes, mental illness, drug or alcohol addiction, previous fractures, back strain, arthritis and severe joint sprains, chronic bronchitis, asthma, rheumatic fever, pneumothorax, liver or kidney disease, anaemia, thyroid, adrenal or other glandular disorder, chronic ear or sinus disease or any condition which requires the regular use of drugs. Regular or recent blood donation.

Medical consent can be obtained from your doctor or other health professional. Your doctor should complete the relevant section at the bottom of the Declaration of Fitness form - a separate “doctor's note” is not sufficient. Your doctor may require you to book an appointment in order to carry out an assessment and a fee may be charged. If you are 40 years of age or older then you require medical approval regardless of your health or level of fitness.

Downloads

British Parachute Association (BPA) Tandem Fitness Form (for Tandem Skydives)

British Parachute Association (BPA) Solo Fitness Form (for Static Line and Accelerated Freefall skydives)

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