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Angles 402

Fly mixed-orientation angles

Angles with orientations mixed through the group.

What this unit covers

The flying half of the Angles 400 mastery tier: tight, fast angle jumps flown across mixed orientations, slight belly, back, head-up and head-down, with transitions from back to belly and belly to back, never through vertical.
The through-vertical case is Dynamic doctrine (FFP-DY201 onward), not angles: staying off vertical is the boundary that keeps the jump an angle (the project's coaching doctrine). The organiser's half of the tier, multi-group movement days and big-way angles, is FFP-AN401.
The rest of it
One course, one job: this card is the mixed-orientation slot and the transitions that hold it. Every jump in this unit is a led group: the active leader flies belly-to-earth, always, and flyers join only with a trained or approved leader (APF006 §5.12; the project's coaching doctrine belly-led doctrine).
Groups stay small: the leader sizes them to the least experienced flyer, smaller than an equivalent single-orientation angle group, because every orientation change is a fall-rate change waiting to happen.
Head-up angle content runs at 4 or fewer with more experienced participants (the project's coaching doctrine). Environment: sky for the movement content. The tunnel evidences orientation control and transition mechanics only; navigation, breakoff and group flow are sky-only. **Mastery tier: there is no sign-off.
Completion is a milestone recognising mixed-orientation angle capability, not a permission to lead, organise or approve any jump.**

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.

3.1 Safety critical
Hold slot through orientation changes: change orientation without changing level or closing speed, bridging the fall-rate difference with speed range on belly and back rather than letting the transition scatter the group (the project's coaching doctrine, the participant speed-range skill).

Can you change orientation without changing your level or your closing speed, bridging the fall-rate difference with speed range?

3.2
Fly each transition on the leader's key, staying on the line of flight, for head-up-to-head-first conversions use a team layout around a centre point, never the in-place layout Carlton names as the worst option (Carlton; the project's coaching doctrine).

Do you make each transition on the leader’s key, staying on the line of flight?

3.3 Safety critical
Never transition through vertical. If a transition goes long or unstable, recover to the nearest stable orientation on the line and rebuild the slot, never over-rotate through vertical to save it (the project's coaching doctrine).

If a transition goes long or unstable, do you recover to the nearest stable orientation on the line rather than carrying on through vertical?

Screen 3 · Safety and altitudes

Safety and altitudes

Everything here is a recommendation with a reason behind it, not a rule. The drop zone you are jumping at, and your own limits on the day, decide what actually happens.

Safety-critical criteria on the short list

3.1
Hold slot through orientation changes: change orientation without changing level or closing speed, bridging the fall-rate difference with speed range on belly and back rather than letting the transition scatter the group (the project's coaching doctrine, the participant speed-range skill).

Can you change orientation without changing your level or your closing speed, bridging the fall-rate difference with speed range?

3.3
Never transition through vertical. If a transition goes long or unstable, recover to the nearest stable orientation on the line and rebuild the slot, never over-rotate through vertical to save it (the project's coaching doctrine).

If a transition goes long or unstable, do you recover to the nearest stable orientation on the line rather than carrying on through vertical?

Everything this unit says about breakoff and deployment

1.4
Set the breakoff to the angle standards, guides 5,000 ft up to a 4-way, 5,500 ft for five or more, and raise the floor for head-up content: minimum 6,000 ft, 6,500 ft for a larger group, with the head-first transition initiated by ~6,500–7,000 ft (Carlton). Keep at least 1,000 ft between breakoff and planned deployment (mandatory in Australia, the APF Operational Regulations) (the project's coaching doctrine breakoff standards; FFP-AN301 knowledge evidence).
4.1
Where head-up content is flown, be head-first by the briefed window (~6,500–7,000 ft) so the track has spent its acceleration lag before the breakoff floor arrives (Carlton, the 1,500–2,000 ft lag; the project's coaching doctrine).
4.2
Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude in the briefed fan, each flyer tracking in a head-first orientation, peeling no more than ~90°, never turning back toward jump run (APF006 §5.10; the project's coaching doctrine breakoff standards).
4.3
Deploy at the planned altitude after visually clearing the airspace in all directions, always assuming somebody is there (APF006 §3.3).

Altitudes here are the guides this curriculum recommends and argues for. Where the drop zone briefs something different, the drop zone is what you fly.

Screen 4 · After the jump

After the jump

From this unit's own closing element, review.

5.1
Debrief against video to the protocol: participants first, the whole video once through, safety points first, end on a win.
5.2
Locate every fall-rate excursion at a transition and attribute it, key timing, speed range, or orientation mechanics, and name one correction to train next.
5.3
Log the jump naming the unit, the orientations and transitions flown, and the next focus.

One fault, one correction

Before the video, before anyone else speaks: name the single thing that went wrong, and the single thing you will do differently next jump. One of each. A list of six is a list you will not 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

Most records are the flyer's own, and that is the point: your own read of your own flying is worth keeping. A record only counts as verified once a coach signs it.

Your notes for this unit

Saved on this device only. Nothing is sent anywhere, there is nowhere for it to go, and no account is involved. They will be here next time you open this card.

This card is a summary. The full Angles 402 unit carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.