A knowledge base for modern freeflight, organised as a coaching curriculum.

The mission

The Freefly Project is a coaching curriculum and knowledge base for freefly. Most of what experienced freeflyers know has never been written down in one place. It sits with coaches, tunnel instructors and competition teams, scattered across federation documents, forum posts, blogs and videos.

A lot of it is hard to find, and some of it is lost when people move on. We gather that knowledge, organise it, and keep it where the next generation of freeflyers can reach it.

The scope is deliberately narrow: Head Up, Head Down, Angles and Dynamic flying. General skydiving topics appear only where they directly serve freefly training, coaching, progression, safety or performance.

The method

Evidence before opinion. Every technical claim traces to a source: federation guides, incident records, GPS data, competition experience, coach testimony, flight science. Where coaches or the evidence disagree, the disagreement stays documented. The project declares no single "correct" method and ranks no coaches.

A competency framework. The curriculum is authored as units of competency in the Australian VET/AQF format: observable performance criteria, judged competent or not yet competent. Progress is measured on demonstrated skill rather than jump counts. To our knowledge it is the first freefly progression, tunnel or sky, built on a national competency framework.

AQF heritage. Australia's AQF-accredited skydiving qualification (a Certificate III) lapsed in 2018 and was never replaced. This curriculum is written to that standard even though no accreditation is currently available for it.

Contributing

The project is set up so freeflyers anywhere can contribute. The aim is a single, accurate and well-organised reference for modern freefly.

Every content page carries a Suggest a change link. We read corrections, additions and new perspectives, and work accepted suggestions into the site.

Contributors

Contributors who opt in are listed here as their accepted suggestions land. Have something to add? Use the Suggest a change link on any page, and tick the contributor box.

Contributors will appear here as suggestions are accepted.

Advisory by design

The Freefly Project is a global educational resource. It makes recommendations and gives the reasons behind them; it issues no mandates. National regulations appear as clearly-labelled jurisdictional context rather than as the site's own rules. Nothing here is regulatory, safety or legal advice. Always comply with your federation and your drop zone.

The documented gap

Australia has been working to formalise angle training since 2018: a technical directive, then a 2019 Angle Crest proposal that was never adopted, then a 2025 draft national syllabus that was never published. No national body anywhere defines sky dynamic, and no freefly progression is built on a national competency framework. This curriculum covers all three gaps, with every claim cited.

Review and status

We review and approve every page before it goes live, and give safety-relevant content an additional cooling-off review before publication. Every published course carries its version and status. At launch, the units are published as drafts under review: visible, so coaches and flyers can read and respond, and clearly marked as not yet formally approved.

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The long-term aim: when a flyer asks where to learn modern freeflying, this site should be an accurate, well-organised and cited answer.