Category B : Exit & Free Fall

Goals for your second jump:

• Stability within ten seconds of exiting the aircraft
• Maintain correct body position for stability throughout, including leg awareness and control
• Initiate deployment procedures within 500 feet of the assigned altitude
• In addition, tandem students complete the solo first-jump course

Video

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Step-by-Step Dive Flow

Goals for your second jump:

• Exit in a relaxed arch
  
  
  
  
• Instructors release arm grips
  
  
  
  
• Circle of Awareness
  
  
  
  
• Practice deployments until comfortable
• Altitude, arch, legs, relax
• Team turns
  
  
  
  Mechanics of a team turn (slow motion)
  
  
• Altitude, arch, legs, relax
• Extend legs for three seconds and hold (forward motion)
  
  Mechanics of tracking (slow motion)
  
  
• Repeat as altitude permits
• Begin wave off at 5,500 feet
• Pull by 4,500 feet.

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