A skydiver with more than 7000 jumps under her belt has died after she and another skydiver became entangled during a parachuting competition in north Queensland.

Doctor Fiona McEachern, 50, died about 12.50pm on Saturday at Tully, south of Cairns, police said today.

She'd recently written an article for the Australian Parachute Foundation on how to avoid mid-air impacts with other skydivers, known as canopy collisions.