Category E : Exit & Free Fall
Goals
- Cumulative two successive disorienting maneuvers with stability and altitude awareness recovered within five seconds
Note: Once this requirement is met and you have received the endorsement of a USPA Instructor in your training discipline, your training may be supervised by any USPA Instructor. You may then self-supervise in freefall, but remain under USPA Instructor supervision. A USPA instructional rating holder should accompany you in the aircraft to verify the correct spot, clearance from clouds and aircraft, exit separation, and your position in the line-up.
- Cumulative one barrel roll, one backloop, and one front loop
- One self-supervised freefall
- Unassisted landing within 50 meters
- Door (unpoised) exit
- Recovering stability and awareness
- Freefall aerobatics
- Canopy stalls
- The canopy's "sweet spot"
- Two canopies deployed (review)
- High-wind landings
- Reserve static line
- Open parachute orientation
- Parachute packing and supervision
- Wind limits for students
- Aircraft briefing
- Aircraft emergency procedures
- Selecting the opening point
Video
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Dive Flows
Dive Plan #1: Barrel Roll and Recovery
- Assist with spot
- Door exit
- Altitude, arch, legs, relax
- Barrel roll (or other disorienting maneuver)
- Altitude, arch, legs, relax
- Barrel roll (or other disorienting maneuver)
- Altitude, arch, legs, relax
- Continue aerobatics until 5,000 feet
- Altitude, arch, legs, relax between each maneuver
- Wave-off at 4,500 feet
- Pull by 4,000 feet
Dive Plan #2: Front Loops and Back Loops
- Assist with spot
- Optional exit
- Altitude, arch, legs, relax
- Perform required aerobatics to standards until 5,000 feet
- Altitude check between each maneuver
- Wave-off at 4,500 feet
- Pull by 4,000 feet
What to do if you find yourself on your back - (the roll out of bed technique)
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