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| Category C Dive Flows
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| Category C Freefall Dive Flows
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AFF
- 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 5,500 feet and deploy by 4,000 feet.
IAD and Static Line
Dive Plan #1: Clear and Pull
- Exit on command with legs extended.
- Initiate deployment sequence as practiced on prior jumps, regardless of stability.
- Check canopy.
Dive Plan #2: Ten-Second Freefall (two jumps)
- Exit with legs extended.
- Relax into neutral.
- Maintain count to ten by thousands while checking altimeter.
- Wave-off at seven seconds or 4,500 feet and initiate deployment by ten seconds or 4,000 feet, regardless of stability.
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| Category C Canopy Dive Flow
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- Release brakes and address any routine opening problems.
- Look left, turn left.
- Look right, turn right.
- Flare.
- Check altitude, position, and traffic.
- Find the landing area and pattern entry point.
- Divide the flight path by thousands of feet.
- Identify suspect areas of turbulence.
- Verify landing pattern and adjust as necessary.
- Steer over correct portion of flight path until 1,000 feet.
- Follow planned pattern over landing area or alternate.
- Flare to land and PLF.
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| Category C Instructor Notes:
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- Following release by their AFF Instructors, AFF students who have not received turn training in Category B may encounter heading drift. These students should be taught to recognize a heading change, consider it acceptable, and to correct it using the "altitude, arch, legs, relax" procedure.
- Students who were taught turn technique in Category B may add "correct turn" at the end of that sequence, placing emphasis on the other four, more important points. Relaxed stability must first be established for proper, relaxed control.
- The instructor should advance students only according to the recommended progression during the rudimentary skills training in Categories A-D. Repetition of fewer basic skills improves success later.
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