SRE stands for...Skydiving Resilience Engineer
summary
Skydiving statistics show about 1 in 500,000 fatality across ~3 million jumps per year, and safety relies on redundancy: main + reserve parachute, automatic activation device (AAD) that triggers a reserve, and audible altimeter pages at decision altitudes. Training uses gear checklists, a “malfunction junction” board of failure scenarios, public blameless postmortems and videoed cutaways, and debriefs. Practical takeaways: set padded alert windows, distinguish warning vs error paging, define a hard escalation deadline (e.g., 30 minutes) and automate critical failover where possible.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:37What's the risk?
- 3:20The Bus Factor (or lottery attrition factor)
- 5:01Your First Skydive
- 6:22Safety Mechanisms in play
- 7:39Getting Certified
- 8:31Gear Checklist and Pre-flight Plan
- 9:22Malfunction Junction
- 10:27Identifying type of failure
- 10:57Important altitudes
- 14:01Scope of Understanding
- 14:41Every system is different
- 15:57Culture of blameless postmortems
- 17:16Public Post-mortems
- 18:54Some Takeaways
- 20:18Awesome Skydiving
