What is the difference between umbrella and parachute?

Answer 1

Parachuting is jumping off a plane or a cliff.

While Skydiving is the practice of performing acrobatic movements during the freefall phase of a parachute jump.

Skydiving has two components, the actual freefall which can be of long or short duration and ends when a pilot chute is deployed and pulls out the parachute from the container. Once the parachute is out, the freefall is over and the canopy flight phase begins and ends with the landing.

With the advent of wingsuits this distinction is blurred somewhat, but one is still falling or more accurately gliding through the air towards the ground.

Some skydivers favour the freefall phase of the sport and the parachute phase is just the means to land safely and are therefore more accurately termed to be skydivers.

Others open their canopies immediately and fly high performance small fast canopies or perform formation flying under canopy and it could be argued that they are parachutists rather than skydivers. There is still a freefall component, albeit brief, and these people would still call themselves skydivers.

To conclude, the main difference is semantics, with parachuting being the more old fashioned term from a time when jumping was sub terminal, and skydiving is the modern term for the sport. Both words describe the activity of jumping from an aircraft and landing safely in broad terms.

Jumping from physical or manmade structures is termed BASE jumping.
They are both very closely connected to each other. During a skydive, a person freefalls from an aircraft with a packed parachute on their back at around 120mph towards the ground.

At around 3000ft typically, the skydiver opens their parachuting which reduces their speed to around 10 to 20mph downwards. For the next 3 or 4 minutes, the skydiver is now gliding down to the dropzone under an open parachute. They could be said to be a parachutist at this point.

Some participants will exit the aircraft and open their parachute immediately and simply enjoy the parachuting part of the jump.

Answer 2

hovercraft hovers and a parachute flies