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Dynamic 402

Mirror the leader

Mirroring: two flyers doing the same thing at each other.

What the course is about

You'll learn to mirror: keep the other flyers in sight and match their moves across a gap, side by side, in a pass and face to face. Dynamic 401 comes first, because this flow is built from the following and carving you learn there.

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.

3.3
Move to a stand on the leader's initiation, driving forward past each other and mirroring each other's speed and line through the pass.

Can you move to a stand on the leader’s initiation and mirror their speed and line as you drive past each other?

3.4 Safety critical
Hold visual contact with the crossing flyers throughout the pass; on losing sight mid-pass, hold the briefed line and level and fly the pass through, never turning into the crossing lane, then re-acquire visual or separate per the brief.

If you lose sight of a crossing flyer mid-pass, do you hold the briefed line and level and fly the pass through, never turning into them?

3.7
Copy the leader's push-through, the transition to head-up through the belly, pushed through the formation, so the group finishes facing each other in head-up.

Can you copy a push-through, transitioning to head up through the belly and finishing facing the other flyer?

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
Hold visual contact with the crossing flyers throughout the pass; on losing sight mid-pass, hold the briefed line and level and fly the pass through, never turning into the crossing lane, then re-acquire visual or separate per the brief.

If you lose sight of a crossing flyer mid-pass, do you hold the briefed line and level and fly the pass through, never turning into them?

Everything this course says about breakoff and deployment

1.5
State the breakoff plan, the jump ends head-up, so the breakoff floor rises to 6,000 ft minimum (6,500 ft for a larger group, the FFP head-up standard applied in FFP-AN301); each flyer rotates to a head-first orientation (head-down or belly) before tracking the assigned fan-out radial; deployment altitudes stated, with separation complete at least 1,000 ft above the planned deployment height.
4.1
Initiate breakoff at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft) by rotating from head-up to a head-first orientation, head-down or belly, then tracking the assigned fan-out radial away from the group; never back-track away while still head-up.
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 the flow phase by phase against the plan on video, in the shared vocabulary.
5.2
Analyse own execution against the competition-derived quality criteria: closeness of passes, synchronisation, uniformity of body position, no loss of balance.
5.3
Design the next jump's variation, any formation in which flyers face each other, from the debrief's findings.
5.4
Log the jump in the logbook naming the unit and skills flown (e.g. "DY402, stand pass and push-through"), 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 402 course page carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.