How do paratroopers avoid colliding with other paratroopers’ parachutes while descending?

Question

How do paratroopers avoid colliding with other paratroopers’ parachutes while descending?

In: Physics

Answer 1

They don’t have to avoid each other. Paratroopers jump in intervals, every few seconds, not all at once. If you’re traveling 60mph, you go 88 feet every second. Planes with paratroopers travel much faster than that. So every couple seconds in between paratrooper jumps means that there are hundreds of feet between them.