Question

What object would have more gravitational potential energy, a skydiver up in the air inside of a plane, or that same skydiver after he/she has jumped out of the plane?

Answer 1

Gravitational potential energy is a direct function of weight and height. Higher the object, high is the gravitational potential energy.

Therefore the skydiver inside of the plane has high gravitational potential energy than the same diver after she has jumped because height is now decreased as he is going down.