Head-Up 202

Demonstrate crest-standard head-up flying

The assessed crest flow: dock, front flip, back flip, dock, flown to a standard.

What the course is about

You'll fly the head-up crest's assessment jumps with a coach, each to a set dive flow and without help in the air, bringing together everything from Head-Up 201. This follows Head-Up 201, because these jumps test the 2-way skills it teaches.

In Australia, the two jumps are Stages 1 and 2 of the Freefly Training Table, the jumps the head-up freefly crest asks for. You need the crest for head-up jumps of more than three.

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.

3.7

Exit unlinked into head-up and fly to a face-off within 5 metres of the coach's base.

Can you leave the aircraft unlinked, in head up, and fly to a face-off within five metres of a stationary flyer?

3.9

Perform a front flip and a back flip on the coach's signals, returning to the sit on heading within 3 seconds each.

On the coach’s signals, can you fly a front flip and a back flip, each one finishing back in the sit on heading within about three seconds?

3.10

Perform a 360° on signal and re-take the hand-to-hand dock.

From the dock, on a signal, can you turn 360 degrees and then take the hand-to-hand dock again?

3.12 Safety critical

Execute the vertical recovery position immediately on any loss of control, re-approaching only when stable.

Through a whole assessment flow, if you become unstable, do you recover to back-fly, in the recovery position, automatically, with no going back in until you are stable?

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

3.12

Execute the vertical recovery position immediately on any loss of control, re-approaching only when stable.

Through a whole assessment flow, if you become unstable, do you recover to back-fly, in the recovery position, automatically, with no going back in until you are stable?

Everything this course says about breakoff and deployment

1.3

State breakoff (5,500 ft guide, the recommended minimum for any head-up group) and deployment altitudes, and the lost-partner plan.

4.1

Initiate breakoff unprompted at the briefed altitude (within −0/+300 ft).

4.3

Deploy at the planned altitude after visually clearing airspace, with separation completed at least 1,000 ft above planned deployment.

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 and compile evidence.

5.1

Debrief each assessment jump against the published checklist using the video.

5.2

Self-assess each criterion Satisfactory / Not Yet Satisfactory from own video before receiving the assessor's marks, justifying any difference.

5.3

Compile the evidence pack (videos, signed checklists, logbook entries, knowledge-evidence record) and present it for the sign-off chain.

5.4

Write both jumps up in the logbook naming the unit and skills assessed (e.g. "FFP-HU202 assessment jump 1, Stage 1 flow") with reflections, criteria results and the coach's countersignature, entries that name the unit make the logbook legible to the drop zone safety officer and chief instructor who sign from it.

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.

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This card is a summary. The full Head-Up 202 course page carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.