Accelerated Free-Fall

What is AFF?

Developed in the early 1980's in the USA, AFF is a system of training student parachutists by starting to free-fall from jump number 1. The learning curve is steep, and the training personalised and intensive. As well as one-to-one instruction on the ground, you also receive coaching, in air, by 2 instructors for the first few jumps, and 1 instructor for the remainder.

Your AFF Instructors are highly qualified. As well as being experienced skydivers, they are also experienced instructors. They must have a minimum of 1000 jumps, and 10 hours of accumulated time in free-fall, just to attend the evaluation course.

The system consists of 8 Levels:

LEVEL 1

After a days training, you are ready to leave the aircraft at 13,000', with your 2 AFF instructors hanging on to you. On the way down, you practice pulling the ripcord, and maintaining heading and altitude awareness, whilst travelling at 120mph. At 5,000' you deploy the parachute and fly it back to the landing area.

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LEVEL 2

After a little more instruction, you again exit the aircraft with 2 instructors. This time, you learn to control movement, whilst maintaining heading and altitude awareness. At 5,000' you signal to the instructors and open your parachute.

LEVEL 3

On level 3, you maintain a heading and demonstrate control in free-fall. If you are doing ok, the instructors will release you. Don't forget, you still need to maintain heading and altitude awareness.

LEVEL 4

Now that you have mastered the basics, you learn to start, control and stop turns while in free-fall. Just one instructor accompanies you from level 4 onwards.

LEVEL 5

Controlled 360º turns in front of your instructor, still maintaining altitude awareness.

LEVEL 6

More advanced techniques now. Spatial orientation, and moving forward horizontally (tracking) through the air. By now, you are ready to put all you have learned into practice on...

LEVEL 7

After exiting the aircraft, you are required to complete a set sequence of 2x360º turns, a backloop, and a short track before deploying your parachute at 4000'.

LEVEL 8

The final test - leave the aircraft on your own for the 1st time, and deploy your parachute within 10 seconds. Congratulations, you've just graduated.

After graduation, there follow 10 jumps on your own to consolidate the skills that you have learned, before being awarded British Parachute Association Category 8 Parachutist status, and your "A" Licence - an internationally recognised qualification.

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