ACCELERATED FREEFALL TRAINING DISCIPLINE
Florida’s Best Skydiving School™ at Skydive City has trained thousands to become experienced licensed skydivers. Our AFF skydiving program is the gateway to jumping for fun and competition at Skydive City and other drop zones worldwide.
The program starts with a full day ground school intensive. In a series of progressive training and jumps (called a ‘category’), instructors hold onto the student’s harness in freefall as the student demonstrates proficiency in skills necessary to skydive independently.
Our Accelerated Freefall (AFF), and later, Advanced Freefall & Canopy Flight training, is modeled on the USPA curriculum published in the Student Information Manual. Earn your United States Parachute Association (USPA) ‘A’ License.
Each jump ‘category’ in our AFF skydiving course advances your skills and completes the steps to become a licensed skydiver. On every jump, you receive training on equipment, aircraft procedures, freefall, canopy (parachute) flight and other technical information until you become a competent skydiver.
Category ‘A’ - the First Jump
Category A = Ground School plus your first AFF jump. Ground School is 5-6 hours of practical and classroom training.
Because you wear your own parachute, you will be trained on equipment, aircraft, freefall, parachute deployment, flying and landing, and malfunctions and emergency procedures.
Often the next day, you fly to 13,500 feet with 2 instructors. All three exit the airplane and freefall together for 60 seconds. You deploy your own parachute at 5,000 feet. You steer your parachute yourself to land at the drop zone, while an experienced skydiver attempts to radio assist).
After the jump, we debrief, review the skydive, complete your logbook and prepare for Jump Number Two!
Each successive jump teaches more about freefall skydiving and parachuting.
