Category C : Exit & Free Fall

Goals for your third jump:

• Demonstrate the ability to freefall safely with one AFF Instructor
• Stable deployment without AFF Instructor contact
• Control within five seconds of exit
• Stable, relaxed fall
• Ability to dampen turns and heading drift using "altitude, arch, legs, relax"
• Wave-off and pull at the assigned altitude

Video

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Step-by-Step Dive Flow

• Exit in a relaxed arch
• Circle of Awareness
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Practice deployment(s) until comfortable
• Circle of Awareness
  
  
  
  
• Instructor(s) release grips as situation allows
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Altitude, arch, legs, relax
  
  
  
  
• Instructor(s) make sure of student control by 6,000 feet or regrip through deployment
• Wave-off at 5,000 feet and deploy by 4,000 feet

• What to do if you find yourself on your back (roll out of bed technique)
  
  

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