Post-AFF Free Coaching Program:
Skydive Perris is pleased to offer a coaching program for newly graduated AFF students to support your continued development and learning! This is a fantastic opportunity to continue your training with USPA licensed coaches who will introduce additional skills to practice in a 1 on 1 coaching environment! Your coaches will also spend additional time with you discussing things like spotting, gear checks, and how to get involved in the skydiving community once you are licensed.
Welcome to our sport and family!
Congratulations on graduating from our AFF program! This is an amazing accomplishment and something most people don’t even dream of. You are one of the elite! Now that you’ve graduatedAFF and completed your formal coach jumps, you may ask yourself, “What’s next?” Our Post AFF coaching program is just for you!
What is it?
The Post AFF coaching program offers free coached jumps to AFF graduates who have completed their formal coach jumps. Every weekend, Skydive Perris provides USPA-rated individual coaching for you, providing a continued environment for you to develop your flying skills, as well as ground instruction to reinforce all of the information you just learned in your AFF program! This continues your skydiving education with an experienced coach to help you maximize your learning. Your skydives will even be videoed and debriefed for more learning.
When can I jump with a coach?
Skydive Perris offers coaching every weekend! Your skydives will be structured to focus on skills such as tracking, fall rate, turns, side slides, and proximity flying. Additionally, you will get to work on different exiting techniques, such as diving, floating, and poised exits. While on the ground with your coach, you will review things like gear checks, aircraft spotting, and canopy skills. They will also help you get involved in the amazing experienced skydiver community at Perris!
How do I sign up to jump with a coach?
You will find a white board in the Perris Load Organizers room, which will have the name of the coach available each day. Write your first and last name on the board, and a coach will find you.
Is there a fee?
The only cost for a mentor jump is your jump ticket and rig rental if needed. The coach’s slots are covered by Skydive Perris.
We look forward to flying with you this weekend!
The Jumps:
Phase II Coach jumps.
Optional exit defined as either dive, floater or poised.
1. Tracking dive; optional exit:
Student turns 90⁰ off line of flight and tracks for 5 seconds
Altimeter check
Student turns 180⁰ and tracks for 5 seconds
Altimeter check
Repeat until 7,000 ft.
Student turns 180⁰ and tracks for 5 seconds
Student deploys at 4,500 ft.
2. Fall rate with heading changes; optional exit:
Student faces coach within 3-5 feet
Coach slides around to side of student (90⁰) and initiates fall rate change
Student turns to face coach then adjusts fall rate to match coach
Altimeter check
Coach slides around in opposite direction to side of student (90⁰) and initiates fall rate change
Student turns to face coach then adjusts fall rate to match coach
Altimeter check
Repeat until 7,000 ft.
Student turns 180⁰ and tracks for 5 seconds
Student deploys at 4,500 ft.
3. Level proximity with 360⁰ turns; optional exit:
Student faces coach within 2-3 feet
Student initiates a 360⁰ right turn while maintaining level & close proximity
Altimeter check
Student initiates a 360⁰ left turn while maintaining level & close proximity
Altimeter check
Repeat until 7,000 ft.
Student turns 180⁰ and tracks for 5 seconds
Student deploys at 4,500 ft.
4. Side slides; floater exit:
Coach dives to student to within 2-3 feet of student
Coach will slide left 6 ft.
Student will initiate a side slide to their right to face coach
Altimeter check
Coach will slide right 6 ft.
Student will initiate a side slide to their left to face coach
Altimeter check
Repeat until 7,000 ft.
Student turns 180⁰ and tracks for 5 seconds
Student deploys at 4,500 ft.
5. Side slides/360⁰ turns; dive exit:
Student dives and docks on coach in an right hand open accordion
Student releases and initiates a right 360⁰ turn then slides to right and
docks on coach in a left hand open accordion
Altimeter check
Student releases and initiates a left 360⁰ turn then slides to left and
docks on coach in a right hand open accordion
Altimeter check
Repeat until 7,000 ft.
Student turns 180⁰ and tracks for 5 seconds
Student deploys at 4,500 ft.
6. Proximity flying/heading change/side slides; dive exit:
Student will face coach and dock
Altimeter check
Student will release and in a clockwise direction fly around to the side of the coach and dock to make a sidebody formation, maintaining level & close proximity, (altimeter check) then student will release and continue to fly around to the other side of the coach and dock to make another sidebody (altimeter check), then student will release and continue to fly around to the front of the coach and redock
Altimeter check
Student will release and in a counter-clockwise direction fly around to the side of the coach and dock to make a sidebody formation, maintaining level & close proximity, (altimeter check) then student will release and continue to fly around to the other side of the coach and dock to make another sidebody (altimeter check), then student will release and continue to fly around to the front of the coach and redock
Altimeter check
Repeat until 7,000 ft.
Student turns 180⁰ and tracks for 5 seconds
Student deploys at 4,500 ft.
