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Dynamic 302

Fly movement into vertical

Arriving on a line and turning it vertical.

What this unit covers

This unit is a movement jump into vertical. The group starts the jump moving, transitions to vertical (head-up or head-down), builds a round, then an accordion.
It is the harder direction of the two component parts for anyone without solid vertical skills, and the one that leans hardest on vertical skill: the jump tests being in slot and tight in the angle as it steepens toward vertical, carrying near-vertical speed and pitch on the way in, and then in the vertical position itself.
The rest of it
FFP-DY301 trains the opposite direction (vertical into movement), and FFP-DY303 links the two into the pass-through.
For extra difficulty the group concludes the jump by moving again: grips break and the group follows the leader back onto a line under the FFP-DY301 slot-to-orientation assignment, ending the jump on an angle.
Whether to fly that closing segment is the coach's call, resting on the group's tightness through the vertical build. That closing departure is the manoeuvre APF006 cautions against, a radical level change on a vertical jump, with the transition to belly its named example (§3.3).
The simultaneous grip-release key and the assigned orientations are the control: every flyer changes level at the same moment, in a briefed direction, into airspace they have just cleared.
A flyer who misses the key does not chase the departing line: hold orientation, let the group depart, and follow from below. The abort geometry. The group goes vertical only from a tight angle.
When the group is not in slot and tight as the line steepens, the leader shallows the line back out and the jump stays an angle, the same pull-out-the-way-you-came-in geometry the 200 tier is built on.
A loose group steepening toward vertical sets up the low-flyer and closing-speed hazards the track's discipline exists to prevent. Leadership. The leader is on belly whenever the group is moving: the belly leader reads the ground and the line directly and owns navigation and the opening point.
This jump steepens into vertical and stops there rather than passing through, so the moving segments carry a single belly leader, with the vertical build keyed as a formation. The full through-vertical leadership doctrine, two approved leaders and the belly-led handover, lives in FFP-DY303 and FFP-DY304.
Fly dynamic small: start at 2-way, build to 3-way, then 4-way, group sizes 2–4 are the guide for this unit. Anything over 6 is highly advanced and best avoided; that scale belongs to dedicated competition-style teams working up incrementally, not a weekend load.
Mastery-track note: the Dynamic track carries no sign-off, completion of this unit is a milestone, not a permission, and its prerequisites are course-internal safety standards. Environment: sky, with tunnel drills (angle-to-vertical transition mechanics, vertical formation craft) as preparation.
Exits, navigation, group flow and breakoff are sky-only skills. Supervision: the coach leads. The candidate flies the line slot through the steepening and the vertical build; the closing movement segment joins the jump when the coach judges the group ready.

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 briefed slot and level, tight to the formation, as the leader steepens the line toward vertical, matching the leader's speed and pitch (entering the leader's zone, no line busts).

Can you hold slot and level, tight to the formation, as the leader steepens the line toward vertical?

3.4
Transition to vertical (head-up or head-down) on the briefed key, holding slot and level through the transition.

Can you transition to vertical on the briefed key while holding slot and level?

3.5 Safety critical
Hold the angle slot when late on the transition key, transitioning only once the flyer ahead is vertical and own airspace is clear, never while closing on the group.

If you are late on the key, do you hold the angle slot and transition only once the flyer ahead is vertical and your airspace is clear?

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

3.5
Hold the angle slot when late on the transition key, transitioning only once the flyer ahead is vertical and own airspace is clear, never while closing on the group.

If you are late on the key, do you hold the angle slot and transition only once the flyer ahead is vertical and your airspace is clear?

Everything this unit says about breakoff and deployment

1.6
State the breakoff and deployment altitudes (guides: 5,000 ft up to a 4-way, 5,500 ft for five or more; where the jump is flown head-up the floor rises, head-up groups 5,500 ft minimum; breakoff at least 1,000 ft above the highest planned deployment), the fan-out plan, and the lost-leader protocol.
4.1
Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft).
4.4
Deploy at the planned altitude after clearing airspace.

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 the declared objective using video, marking angle faults (slot and level misses on the steepening line) and vertical-formation faults (transition, round and accordion) separately.
5.2
Identify one steepening-segment fault and one vertical-formation fault, with a correction for the next jump.
5.3
Log the jump with criteria results and a reflection naming the unit and skills assessed (e.g. "FFP-DY302 movement into vertical, held slot through the steepening, late on the accordion grip"), entries like this make the logbook a meaningful training record.

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 Dynamic 302 unit carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.