How to freeze a player in mid air?

I want to be able to freeze the player in mid air but still have the player be able to look around use controls etc. been trying to find an answer for a while now, hoping it’s something simple I am missing…….

perhaps you can freeze the time for the player and that is by making time.scale = 0.0f and when you want to continue falling you can reset it to 1.0f

Can you tell me the syntax and reference on that? Is it possible to just freeze it for the player?

Also will this solution allow the player to move controls in real time while frozen?

Should have said, I am working in C#