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skydiving is one of those months in a lifetime experiences that is unless you go indoor skydiving I'm Lexus Avedis foreseen it come with me as I show you that behind the scenes technology of all the fans and inverters at work let's go at the I fly Center in Sydney for 450 horsepower fans sit at the top of the building pushing wind down the sides and up through the flight chamber directly above is a primary diffuser that reduces the wind velocity before it goes back around flyers step into the 5 meter wide tunnel with instructors having full control of wind intensity we spoke to Matt about what it takes to be an instructor the course usually goes from two and a half to three weeks part of that course is driving these machines for up to eight hours to be signed off as an instructor eight hours a lot of time usually pick it up by the end of that this interface pretty much controls everything related to when people are flying in the tunnel from your speeds by this dial to opening the doors to the times also to the photos we have a camera just here in our buttons it just to everything within the tunnel from when you step in to when you step out is all controlled by the person sitting in this chair wind speeds just up here it can go from zero to three hundred eighty kilometers an hour we also have not just for the flying but all behind scenes as well such as like alarms everything to do with the motors as well you've got a technologies use the varying of the frequency and the voltage to to the motors which control the fans here in the eye flight technology it means that we can vary the speed of the fans and the speed of the wind up and down we can increase or decrease or you know to suit the height and then the weight of the fly that's flying products that that are here in I fly our standard off-the-shelf products so we used our normal everyday factory automation communication systems and products to learn to achieve what we have here at I fly so there is nothing special it's just standard off-the-shelf equipment with flights lasting a minute you get more free full time than skydiving from 14,000 feet and you don't have to throw yourself out of a plane for more information on the entire I fly system check out cnet.com