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Angles 202

Demonstrate endorsement-standard angle flying

The angle flying an endorsement consumes as evidence.

What the course is about

You'll fly a series of angle jumps behind a leader, with no help in the air, to the standard a drop zone uses to clear you for bigger angle groups. Belly and back are flown and passed separately. Angles 201 comes first for belly and Angles 203 for back, because these jumps test what those courses teach.

What comes before it

Screen 2 · What you are watched on

What you are watched on

The same short list a coach ticks, in the same words. Nothing is hidden from you.

3.4

Hold the slot at docking distance, on level and in quadrant, legs never passing the leader's head (Workshop), through the leader's briefed speed and pitch changes.

Can you stay in slot and on level while the leader changes speed and pitch, with your legs never passing the leader’s head?

3.7

Hold slot and level through a briefed turn, flying the outside arc with speed rather than cutting inside, turns are curves, not corners (Workshop).

Can you hold slot and level through a turn in the outside slot, without getting left behind or cutting across the group?

3.9 Safety critical

Execute in-slot recovery as second nature on any instability: add speed in the group's direction on the jump's angle, never ball up, never track away. If separation persists, hold the group's heading and follow: stop the closure by ~7,000–7,500 ft, hold the distance, and break off on the group's timing, not its altitude, breaking off early, high and blind above a descending group is how followers meet deploying canopies (APF006 §4.3 "Do not track away!"; Workshop –).

If you get left behind, do you stop closing by about 7,000 feet and keep visual contact and distance from the group until breakoff, rather than pinning it at the group and risking a collision?

Screen 3 · Safety and altitudes

Safety and altitudes

Everything here is a recommendation with a reason behind it. The drop zone you are jumping at, and your own limits on the day, decide what happens.

Safety-critical items on the short list

3.9

If you get left behind, do you stop closing by about 7,000 feet and keep visual contact and distance from the group until breakoff, rather than pinning it at the group and risking a collision?

Everything this course says about breakoff and deployment

1.5

State the briefed breakoff altitude (guide: 5,000 ft for groups up to 4-way, 5,500 ft for 5-way or larger, and note most modern groups brief 5,500 ft regardless of size), the deployment altitude, the breakoff fan plan, and the left-behind and lost-group plans, a group whose members do not share these numbers has no shared timing at the most dangerous phase of the jump.

2.1

Complete a movement-jump gear check on self and cross-check the group: hand-deploy BOC or pull-out, bridle fully covered, tight riser covers and closing loop, secure handles and clothing, hard helmet, visual altimeter, audible altimeter checked and set to the briefed breakoff. On an angle jump the audible is the group's shared clock.

2.2

Walk the dive with the group, spending the most time on the breakoff fan, who peels where, with eye contact between breakoff neighbours ("I spend more time on getting the group together and breaking off than I do on actual walking", Workshop).

4.1

Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft), on the group's timing, the classic pull-time collision is a flyer still closing while the group slows to deploy (Workshop).

4.2

Fan off in the briefed order, leader continues straight, everyone else peels progressively to a maximum ~90°, looking before turning, turning flat from the hips, never turning in place, breakoff "is not so much of a race as it is a basketball game" (APF006 §5.10; Workshop –).

4.6

Deploy at the planned altitude after visually checking airspace in all directions, with relative work discontinued at least 1,000 ft above planned deployment (mandatory in Australia, the APF Operational Regulations); if directly above someone at pull height, deploy, never try to out-track them (APF006 §3.3).

The altitudes here are the guides this site recommends, with the reasons on the full course page. Where the drop zone briefs something different, fly what the drop zone briefs.

Screen 4 · After the jump

After the jump

From the course's closing section, review.

5.1

Debrief each jump against the published checklist using the jump video, talking through own decision-making, heading awareness, level, closure rate, altitude calls.

5.2

Self-assess each criterion Satisfactory / Not Yet Satisfactory from the footage before seeing the assessor's marks, justifying any differences.

5.3

If you have access to a GPS, compare the planned line, the line you think you flew, and the trace, the three-picture debrief is the fastest feedback loop in movement flying (Workshop); optional enrichment, not a requirement.

5.4

Log each jump (orientation stream, group size, leader's name) with criteria results and the assessor's countersignature, building the evidence pack.

One fault, one correction

Before the video, and before anyone else speaks, name the one fault from the jump and the one thing you will change on the next jump. Keep it to one of each, so you have one clear thing to fly.

Write them into your notes at the bottom of this card, and they will be here next time you open it.

Record this jump

You can record the jump yourself, because your own read of your flying is worth keeping. A record counts as verified once a coach signs it.

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This card is a summary. The full Angles 202 course page carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.