Accelerated Freefall (AFF) Progression

Learn to Skydive Course

Our USPA Learn To Skydive Course is the first step of your skydive. A combination of classroom training, physical training, practice, and a complete rehearsal of your jump while still on the ground will prepare you for your skydive. After training, with the supervision and assistance of your Instructor, you will gear up (put on your parachute and other equipment), board our airplane and after a flight to altitude make your first skydive. You will fly the parachute, having been fully trained, but also wearing a radio for one of us to guide and assist you with flight and landing. After landing, your instructor will spend time with you reviewing your skydive. If you love this sport as much as we do and want to continue on, keep reading, as our program for you to get licensed is below, but whether you want to make 1 jump or 100, you will always remember this accomplishment and it will always bring a smile to your face.

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Accelerated Free Fall is just that. This training method will expose you to more freefall earlier in your training than the Static Line progression. Each jump will have more skills to master in order to move to the next level. Either method requires at least 25 jumps for getting a license, but AFF will add 3-4 extra minutes of freefall time. While it does require more classroom and training time for each jump, your freefall skills can progress faster during early jumps. You will exit the plane at 12,000’ with two USPA AFF instructors holding you to stabilize the exit and teach you in the air with hand signals. Once under your parachute you will be alone, but with a radio for guidance from the ground. Because of the extra altitude, training time and instructor involvement, the AFF progression is more expensive than Static Line.

AFF Jump Progression Outline

The AFF program consists of the same 8 categories as static line but the first 5 are slightly different. Your first 3 jumps (Category A, B, and C-1) are done with 2 instructors to assist you. Your next 5 (Category C-2, D, and E) are done with 1 instructor. At this point you are considered done with the AFF portion of training but still a student. A coach will fly with you for the rest of your student training.

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