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Dynamic 201

Fly a near-vertical back angle

Holding a back slot as the line steepens toward vertical and shallows back out.

What the course is about

You'll learn to hold a back slot as the group dives toward vertical and pulls out onto the line it came in on. Angles 203 comes first, because you fly this course in a back-fly slot. Your coach checks your belly and back before you start, because dynamic jumps use both.
In Australia, these jumps come under the tracking and angle rules, which need at least a Certificate C and an approved leader.

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.

3.2
Hold the back slot with continuous visual on the leader as the group steepens toward vertical, staying on level and in slot through the dive. The coach judges slot competence as a whole, approaching from within your quadrant and holding position, rather than against a measured distance.

Can you hold your back slot on level with continuous sight of the leader as the group steepens toward vertical?

3.3
Hold the back slot through the pull-out as the group shallows back onto the entry line, matching the leader's pitch and speed changes.

Can you stay in the back slot through the pull-out, matching the leader’s pitch and speed as the group shallows back onto the entry line?

3.6 Safety critical
Execute the lost-leader protocol immediately on losing visual contact, already below the group: stay on back, shallow onto a following back angle, and follow the group from below; level with or above the group: hold the shallow back angle, never descend to chase, and deploy higher after checking above.

If you lose sight of the leader, do you stay on your back and follow from below, never descending to chase if you are level with or above the group?

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

3.6
Execute the lost-leader protocol immediately on losing visual contact, already below the group: stay on back, shallow onto a following back angle, and follow the group from below; level with or above the group: hold the shallow back angle, never descend to chase, and deploy higher after checking above.

If you lose sight of the leader, do you stay on your back and follow from below, never descending to chase if you are level with or above the group?

Everything this course says about breakoff and deployment

1.4
State breakoff (guide: 5,000 ft for groups up to a 4-way, 5,500 ft for a 5-way or larger; set at least 1,000 ft above the highest planned deployment) and deployment altitudes, and the lost-leader protocol for a back flyer, split by position, already below the group: stay on back, shallow onto a following back angle, and follow the group from below; level with or above the group: hold the shallow back angle, never descend to chase, and deploy higher after checking above.
4.1
Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft).
4.4
Deploy at the planned altitude after clearing airspace.

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 against the declared objective using video.
5.2
Analyse own dive and pull-out on video for slot displacement and level error through the pitch changes, identifying one correction for the next jump.
5.3
Write the jump up in the logbook with reflections naming the unit and skills assessed (e.g. "DY201 near-vertical back angle"), criteria results and current standing against the entry standards, the curriculum gives log entries meaning.

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.

Your notes for this course

Saved on this device only, with no account. They will be here next time you open this card.

This card is a summary. The full Dynamic 201 course page carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.