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Head Up · Relative · The jump

Head-Up 202

Demonstrate crest-standard head-up flying

The assessed crest flow: dock, front loop, backloop, dock, flown to a standard.

What this unit covers

The head-up assessment unit.
Covers demonstrating, on two prescribed 2-way assessment jumps, the complete head-up relative skill set to the standard the head-up crest sign-off consumes: exit, face-off, in-place rotations, recovery, forward drive, level matching, approach, hand-to-hand docks, signalled transitions, and breakoff/track/deployment discipline.
The rest of it
The two assessment dive flows are the APF Freefly Training Table Stages 1–2 (the APF Training Operations Manual), enriched to the union with the Freefly and Angles Guide Head Up 1 & 2 flows (APF006 §8.5). the APF Training Operations Manual is the authorised manual: it defines the minimum acceptable standard and always prevails.
The additional Freefly and Angles Guide manoeuvres are training and evidence enrichment layered on top, so a single evidence pack satisfies both documents.
The unit's output is a defined evidence pack: exactly what a Freefly Coach and a drop zone safety officer/chief instructor need to complete the crest sign-off chain without further evidence-gathering. Applies to flyers who have completed FFP-HU201 (coached head-up 2-ways). Environment: sky.
Assessment jumps are sky jumps from a recommended 10,000 ft minimum (APF006 §3.2); tunnel time may support rehearsal but never substitutes for the assessment jumps. Supervision: coach passive, moving to unassisted.
The coach flies the coach slot in each dive flow (base, signals, level changes) and gives no in-air correction on assessment jumps; every criterion specifies unsupported performance.

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 loop and a backloop 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 loop and a backloop, 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, is the vertical recovery position automatic on any loss of control, 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, 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

3.12
Execute the vertical recovery position immediately on any loss of control, re-approaching only when stable.

Through a whole assessment flow, is the vertical recovery position automatic on any loss of control, with no going back in until you are stable?

Everything this unit 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.

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 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, 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 Head-Up 202 unit carries the reasoning, the sources and everything left off here. All briefing cards.