Instructor Assisted Deployment

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Instructor Assisted Deployment, or IAD, is the successor to static line. The main difference is that instead of being deployed by a static line, the student's jumpmaster (who is in the plane with them) deploys the student's parachute by throwing the pilot chute out the door as the student exits.

Among the benefits to IAD are increased reliability and the ability to use the same parachute equipment as the students will use when they progress to deploying their parachutes on their own.