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Dynamic 403

Fly eagles

Eagles: passing another flyer over or under, on a call.

What the course is about

You'll learn to fly eagles: you and one partner face each other, fly toward each other and pass over or under in opposite vertical orientations. Dynamic 402 comes first, because an eagle is built on reading and mirroring a leader. In Australia, a two-way freefly jump needs the drop zone safety officer's approval.

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 Safety critical
Commit the over/under call early on every approach; on a missed or late call, an ambiguous height read or conflicting movement, both flyers abort the pass and break to their pre-assigned offset sides, never force a crossing, and never resolve height ambiguity inside the closure.

Do you commit the over or under call early on every approach, and break to your pre-assigned offset side rather than forcing a crossing on any ambiguity?

3.5
Fly the follower role, initiating the signalled high-speed front or back layout and passing over or under the leader, with vertical displacement and relativity held through the pass.

Can you fly the signalled front or back layout and pass over or under the leader, holding vertical displacement and relativity right through the pass?

3.9 Safety critical
Fly the over-pass clear of the partner's burble column with the briefed vertical displacement; never decelerate beneath the partner, a blown layout aborts outward with lateral offset.

Do you fly the over-pass clear of the other flyer’s burble with the briefed vertical displacement, never slowing down underneath them?

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

3.4
Commit the over/under call early on every approach; on a missed or late call, an ambiguous height read or conflicting movement, both flyers abort the pass and break to their pre-assigned offset sides, never force a crossing, and never resolve height ambiguity inside the closure.

Do you commit the over or under call early on every approach, and break to your pre-assigned offset side rather than forcing a crossing on any ambiguity?

3.9
Fly the over-pass clear of the partner's burble column with the briefed vertical displacement; never decelerate beneath the partner, a blown layout aborts outward with lateral offset.

Do you fly the over-pass clear of the other flyer’s burble with the briefed vertical displacement, never slowing down underneath them?

Everything this course says about breakoff and deployment

1.5
State the breakoff plan, breakoff altitude, the last-pass floor (no pass begun below breakoff plus 1,000 ft), the head-up rotate-head-first rule, the back-flyer roll rule and deployment altitudes, with separation complete at least 1,000 ft above the planned deployment height (guides: 5,000 ft for freefly groups up to 4-way, noting most modern jumpers use 5,500 ft for any freefly group and will generally not accept 4,500 ft; the head-up passes make this a head-up movement jump and raise the floor to 6,000 ft minimum).
3.11
Begin no pass below the last-pass floor, breakoff altitude plus 1,000 ft.
4.1
Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft), rotating from head-up to a head-first orientation first if the jump ends head-up, then turning onto a clear radial while flattening pitch to a track; never back-track away while still head-up.
4.2
If on the back at breakoff, roll to belly only once on a clear trajectory with no one above.
4.3
Deploy at the planned altitude, inside the group's planned opening airspace, after checking own 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 every pass against the plan on video, in the shared vocabulary, over or under, through belly or back, front or back layout, eagle or reverse eagle.
5.2
Analyse own execution against competition-derived quality criteria: closeness of passes, synchronisation, uniformity of body position, no loss of balance.
5.3
Evaluate the follower's reading of each pass, how much was flown on the signal and how much read from the leader's relative height and body movement, setting the next jump's signal reliance toward passes flown intuitively, without a signal, with eye contact, vertical displacement and relativity maintained.
5.4
Log the jump in the logbook naming the unit and skills flown (e.g. "DY403, over through belly, back layout under"), with criteria results and a short reflection, the curriculum is what makes the log entry meaningful.

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 403 course page carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.