Information about setting POPS/SOS/JOS/JOES records

Additional information and tips for POPS Load Organizers are available on the record application forms.

Who is eligible to participate in record jumps?

This information is provided by Pat Moorehead, TOP SOS.

A committee consisting of Pat Moorehead, SOS #1, Len Zak, POPS/SOS Awards Coordinator, Ted Rose, former TopPOP USA, and Tom Zukowski, current TopPOP USA, recently (August 2005) held a telephone and e-mail meeting and following are the results of the meeting:

"Inasmuch as Skydivers Over Sixty (SOS) is operated as a subgroup of Parachutists Over Phorty Society (POPS), it was decided that, for record purposes only, any SOS member who registers to participate in any SOS record skydive, whether it be Country, State, or World, must also be a member of POPS. It is acceptable that SOS members from other countries be allowed to participate if they have membership in the POPS organization in their particular country. All participants should be prepared to offer proof to the organizers of their POPS/SOS membership.

It should be recognized that if an SOS member on any record attained is later found not to be not a member of POPS (or SOS), that record will be invalid.

It shall be the sole responsibility of the organizer(s) of any SOS record to validate the POPS/SOS membership of any member accepted as a participant in the record skydives. If there is any doubt, the organizers shall require a monetary deposit for POPS/SOS membership before the member be allowed to jump on any record skydive. If it is later determined that the applicant is already a valid member, the deposit shall be returned in full.

The organizer should also contact the current TopPOP and/or the TopSOS in order to obtain the most current membership list available to use to validate members of the dive pool."

Additional information

The same policy would also apply to JOS and JOES members when jumping for a record.

POPS and SOS records require a minimum of 9 jumpers to establish a record.

Due to the scarcity of jumpers in the JOS category, 70 and older, a minimum of 5 jumpers are required to establish a record.

Due to the greater scarcity of jumpers in the JOES category, 80 and older, a minimum of 3 jumpers are required to establish a record.

And when a JON, Jumpers over 90, category is established, a minimum of 2 jumpers will be required to establish a record.

FOR ALL RECORD CATEGORIES, POPS, SOS, JOS, JOES. Any free fall disciplines may be combined on any record jump to qualify for a record.i.e.belly, back, free style, head down, feet down, sky surf, CReW. The record organizer has the option of selecting any one discipline or any multiple of disciplines to take part in the record attempt. The record award certificate will list the entire combined effort as a "Freeall Formation".