Dropzones, jumpers, tandem video and parachute rigging each have their own software. None of it talks to each other. SkyDrive is one suite built for all four.
The principle
Automate the paperwork. Never make the safety call.
Every decision that could hurt someone — pull altitude, breakoff, the spot, canopy choice, whether to jump at all, whether footage shows a malfunction — stays with qualified humans. SkyDrive surfaces data; it does not advise.
That isn't a disclaimer bolted onto the bottom of a page. It's an architectural rule: no screen in any of these products is allowed to read as a recommendation, and safety-adjacent behaviour is never gamified.
What's being built
Each one stands on its own — no product requires another to do its job. They share a login and speak to each other when you want them to, and work fine when you don't.
Dropzone operations. Manifest, loads, check-in, tickets, staff payouts and reporting — the daily machinery of running a dropzone.
Open the test build · Real code, fabricated data, labelled throughout.One app, five roles: fun jumper, instructor, student, pilot and packer. Automatic jump detection, a logbook that fills itself, currency and progression.
Open the preview · All five roles, sample data, nothing saved.Tandem video, end to end. Safe SD-card ingest, automatic moment detection, and footage delivered before the customer drives home.
Open the preview · Ingest and review, running on demo footage.Software for parachute riggers. Reserve repacks, AAD service, component life tracking and the records the FAA actually asks for.
Open the early build · An early build, ahead of the work described here.Status labels are current and kept honest. “In testing” means real code being exercised against real workflows, not a public release — nothing here is available to buy yet. Every card above opens the thing it names: a test build or a preview, running on sample data, with nothing you enter kept. None of them is a finished product and none pretends to be.
Why
A jumper's logbook doesn't know what the manifest put them on. The video team re-types what the front desk already entered. A rigger's seal doesn't connect to the gear record anyone else can see. Everyone re-enters the same information, all weekend, every weekend.
The work is unglamorous and the details matter enormously — which is precisely why it's worth building properly, and building once.