Watch: Fearless three-year-old takes on ‘skydive’ in Manchester to celebrate her birthday

A fearless three-year-old girl has proven herself braver than some adults after she completed an indoor skydiving experience for her birthday.

Violet Pedder, who turns four today took to the ‘skies’ in an indoor wind tunnel, IFly in Manchester, yesterday, with the moment captured on video.

The video shows how Violet was spun way up into the machine, guided by an instructor, while being cheered on by her parents, cousins and grandfather.

While she ‘loved’ the experience, Violet’s mum, Tor Connolley, said she got “very dizzy” and after getting off walked straight past her family.

Tor, 35, a veterinary cardiologist’s assistant from near Runcorn, said that her whole family had the ‘adrenaline junkie’ gene.

She said: “The whole experience was for her birthday, and we knew from a young age that she was a bit of an adrenaline junkie like me.

“She loves adventure and anything that’s a bit dangerous.

“Obviously because of her age she’s not been able to do all the big scary rides at theme parks, but if we can get away with getting on them with her if she’s tall enough she loves the biggest rides.

“A lot of the time she’ll go with her cousins, and she’ll be the one to test out a ride first to check if it’s safe!”

Tor said that the rules at Manchester surprised her and that anyone aged three and over can do the wind tunnel experience, though after posting the video on Facebook she discovered that age range can vary - with one commenter saying it’s 14 in London.

Tor said: “My dad, her Grandad, went with them too. I would have too but I’ve done a real skydive so it wasn’t as exciting!

“She went in twice, for one minute each time. The first time she went in, she didn’t go in the air as such, she just hovered around. The second time they asked if she wanted to go up in the air, and she was very excited to do it.

“She must have got very dizzy though as when she got off, and her dad was there waiting for her and we could see them of course, she didn’t even see her dad and just walked straight past him and off to the end of the hall.

“It was quite a spin really, I wasn’t expecting her to spin the way she did and did feel a bit bad at first, but she enjoyed it!”

The family plans to go to Disney world next year as part of a return trip to Florida after Violet was unable to go on many of the rides. Until then Violet wants to go to ‘Go Ape’.

Tor added: “Anything she sees that looks a bit dangerous and exciting she wants to do, literally anything she sees she asks to do”.