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Dynamic · Relative · The brief

Dynamic 202

Fly a near-vertical belly angle and transition to back

The belly slot, and the transition to back that recovers everything above it.

What the course is about

You'll learn to hold a belly slot as the group dives toward vertical and pulls out, then transition to your back in slot as the line flattens. That transition is the bail-out every later Dynamic course relies on. Dynamic 201 comes first, because the back slot on a near-vertical line is where this jump ends.
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 to watch

What to watch

The same short list the flyer sees on their card, in the same words.

3.2
Hold the belly slot with continuous visual on the leader as the group steepens toward vertical and pulls back out, staying on level and in slot throughout. 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 a belly slot on level with continuous sight of the leader as the group steepens and pulls back out?

3.3 Safety critical
Clear own airspace visually before every transition, no blind transitions.

Do you clear your own airspace visually before every transition, with no blind transitions?

3.4
Transition belly→back in slot on the briefed key as the line flattens, driving the formation-side shoulder up and over the body, never dropping a shoulder under, re-establishing level and slot promptly.

Can you transition belly to back in slot on the key, driving the formation-side shoulder up and over rather than dropping it underneath?

Screen 3 · What blocks a sign-off

What blocks a sign-off

A safety-critical item marked not yet stops the sign-off, however good the rest of the flying was. The rest of the jump cannot make up for it.

Safety-critical items on the short list

3.3
Clear own airspace visually before every transition, no blind transitions.

Do you clear your own airspace visually before every transition, with no blind transitions?

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 (transition to back, turn onto a back angle, and follow the group from below).
4.1
Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft).
4.4
Deploy at the planned altitude after clearing airspace.

Recording a sign-off says what you saw on one jump. Permission to jump, and anything the drop zone requires, stay with the drop zone.

Screen 4 · Conditions

Conditions

Where the evidence is allowed to come from, and how much of it there needs to be.

Assessment conditions

- Sky jumps from 10,000 ft or higher (recommended), with a real group of 2–3 plus the coach-leader.
Video of every assessment jump, with the flyer identifiable: leader-flown, outside or helmet-mounted.
Equipment: a visual altimeter, a working audible (two recommended for mixed-orientation work), an AAD (recommended) and freefly-suitable gear.
Conditions within the flyer's cleared limits, with calm to mild upper winds recommended for evaluation jumps.
The assessor is a freefly coach current in both angle and vertical coaching and approved to lead movement jumps at the host drop zone.
Each criterion is marked Satisfactory or Not Yet Satisfactory. The result completes the Dynamic 200 tier within this curriculum and confers no licence, crest, endorsement or jump permission.
The bail-out roll (2.2) is always shown live. Prior evidence covers the rest only with one challenge evaluation jump against elements 3 and 4, with a coach leading.
Tunnel time can replace up to one skill-development jump (flips, layouts, carving), never an evaluation jump.
As a guide, it takes at least 4 coached group jumps, over at least two days or sets of conditions, within six months.
Tunnel time on belly-to-back flips, layouts and carving can stand in for one practice jump.
If you already fly steep angles on belly and back, your coach can assess you on one evaluation jump with a coach leading, backed by your logbook, tunnel records and video. You still show the bail-out live first. Finishing gives no licence, crest, endorsement or jump permission.

Performance evidence

After each jump, debrief your transition on video with your coach and log one correction. You've finished Dynamic 202 when you fly two evaluation jumps in a row that meet everything on the coach's checklist below.

Screen 5 · Debrief

Debrief

Safety first, then fun, then learning. In that order, every time.

Coaching priorities

Safety first, then fun, then learning. Hold the bold criteria to the standard above, and have the entry-standard conversation openly before anyone spends money. Explain the belly-flyer-low scenario before the first jump, so the flyer knows why they are showing the bail-out roll.
Evaluate the flyer in both orientations and put the development into the weaker one, usually belly. Explain up front that this is a safety decision. The same evaluation sets which side the flyer starts on for the first pass-through in Dynamic 303.
Offer a flyer below the entry standards the belly and back angle development path. End each debrief on something that went well, with one thing to improve.

One fault, one correction

Ask for their read before you give yours. Then leave them with one fault and one correction, in their words if you can get them. One of each is easier to carry onto the next load than six points.

A jump marked not yet is a jump to fly again. Tell them that as part of the debrief.

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