Freefly knowledge, written down and organised into courses.

The mission

The Freefly Project is a set of freefly courses and articles. Much of what experienced freeflyers know has never been written down in one place. It sits with coaches, tunnel instructors and competition teams, and in 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 it, organise it, and keep it somewhere any freeflyer can find it.

The site covers Head Up, Head Down, Angles and Dynamic. General skydiving topics appear only where they help with freefly training, coaching, safety or performance.

The method

Sources first. Every technical claim traces to a source: federation guides, incident reports, GPS data, competition experience, coaches' experience and flight science. Where coaches or sources disagree, the page records the disagreement. No single method is called the correct one, and no coach is ranked.

A national training format. Each course is written in the format Australia uses for vocational training. It lists what a coach can watch you do in the air, and your coach marks each point as met or not yet met. You move on when you can fly the skill, and jump counts are a guide. To our knowledge it is the first freefly progression, tunnel or sky, written to a national training framework.

Where the format comes from. Australia's accredited skydiving qualification, a Certificate III under the Australian Qualifications Framework, lapsed in 2018 and was never replaced. These courses are written to that standard, though no accreditation is available for them at present.

Contributing

Freeflyers anywhere can contribute. The aim is one accurate, well-organised reference for modern freefly.

Every content page has a Suggest a change link. We read corrections, additions and new perspectives, and work the accepted ones 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.

Recommendations with reasons

The Freefly Project is an educational resource for jumpers anywhere. Each page makes recommendations and gives the reasons for them. National regulations appear in italics, as context for the country they apply in. Nothing here is regulatory, safety or legal advice. Follow your federation's rules and your drop zone's policies.

In Australia, where a page here differs from the APF Operational Regulations or the APF Training Operations Manual, those documents prevail.

What was missing

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 training framework. These courses fill all three gaps, and every claim is cited.

Review and status

We review and approve every page before it goes live. Safety content gets a second review, after a cooling-off period, before it is published. Every course shows its version and status.

At launch the courses are published as drafts under review. Coaches and flyers can read them and respond, and each one is marked as not yet formally approved.

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The long-term aim is for this site to be an accurate, cited answer when a jumper asks where to learn freefly.