Category F : Exit & Free Fall

Goals

• Two tracking jumps
• Two clear-and-pulls
• Cumulative three tracking sequences: track for ten seconds within 30 degrees of the planned heading, turn 180 degrees, and track back for ten seconds
• Introduction to tracking
• Two clear and pulls (former AFF students)
• Braked turns, approaches, and landings
• Extending the glide
• Power-line landing review
• Packing with assistance
• Checking others' equipment
• Procedures following inactivity
• Winds aloft and the exit point
• Separating groups during exit

Video (Hop and Pops)

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Dive Flows

Dive Plan #1: Tracking

• Spot with minimal assistance
• Choice of exit position
• Delta for ten seconds, turn 180 degrees, return
• Altitude check
• Repeat until 6,000 feet
• Wave off and pull by 3,500 feet

Dive Plan #2: Clear and Pull From 5,500 feet

• Spot with minimal assistance
• Poised exit
• Initiate deployment within five seconds

Dive Plan #3: Clear and Pull from 3,500 Feet

• Spot with minimal assistance
• Poised exit
• Initiate deployment within five seconds

Video (Check Dive)

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