USPA B-License Courses
CCD 1.1: Canopy Proficiency — Essential Canopy Skills
CCD 1.2: Water Landing Training
- Take both courses (details below) to cover the USPA B-License Requiremens
'Water Landing Training'
(SIM Sec. 3-1 E 2. d.) and
'Canopy Proficiency Card' (SIM Sec. 3-1 E 2. e.). - Written B-License exam is available.
- The B-License is a Competitor Qualification Requirement for the following USPA disciplines/events:
- Canopy Formation (2-Way Advanced)
- Formation Skydiving (Intermediate)
- Formation Skydiving (Advanced)
- Mixed Formation Skydiving (Advanced)
CCD 1.1:
Canopy Proficiency —
Essential Canopy Skills
Contents: Self-accountability. Situational awareness. Analyzing your environment and making educated decisions. Flying precise and predictable patterns. Learning proper flare technique. Improving accuracy. Learn to fly defensively (do not confuse with "passively"!).
Your training jumps will start at app. 5,000 feet AGL, where you will deploy immediately so you can completely focus on flying your canopy.
Each jump focuses on a different essential skill:
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Jump 1
Equipment, practice flares, and evaluation
Jump 2
Basic aerodynamics and effective flaring
Jump 3
Braked canopy flight
Jump 4
Rear riser applications and long spot navigation
Jump 5
Toggle stalls and stall recovery
All Jumps
An Axis coach will watch your entire canopy flight and take a video of your approach and landing. There will be a video debrief and theoretical class work with power point slides between each jump.
B-License Exam
The written USPA B License exam can be administered on request.
CCD 1.2: Water Landing Training
Next Dates
Same dates as Course CCD 1.1.
Topics of discussion
will be:
Decision Altitude
- What it is and how to apply it properly
- Appropriate adjustments to decision altitude
Water Landings Theory
- Potential causes for unintentional landings in water
- Risks and variables when in the water
- Intentional water landings
- Look at different environments
- Prepare for a water landing
- Once in the water
Application
- Apply the theory in the pool
- You must be a proficient swimmer to participate!
B-License Exam
The written USPA B License exam can be administered on request.
Organizational Information
Your Agenda for the Day
Here is a quick break down of what you can expect for the course:
- Arrive at 0800 at AXIS HQ
(Please let your coach know if you need time to rent gear) - Start with a quick chat and talk about the performance objectives for the day.
- Buy 5 Hop and Pop tickets and hand them to your AXIS coach who will coordinate the jumps with manifest.
- As you will be on 40 minute calls throughout the day, a packer is required!
- Each jump is filmed by an AXIS coach from the ground and then debriefed in the class room.
- Generally jumping finishes around 1500.
- Water Landing Training and the Written Exam can be added on to the end of the day.
If you are interested in live water landing training you must be a proficient swimmer!
Please bring your swimming trunks and a towel (DZ has showers).
The Next Course is scheduled for
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Courses CCD 1.1 and CCD 1.2 usually take place on the same day
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More Than Just a Sign-Off — Training for Water Landings
Training for intentional and unintentional water landings is an important part of a skydiver's learning progression and is required to receive the USPA B license. Unfortunately, most jumpers rarely give it much thought after their instructors sign them off for this skill, and few take the time to carefully consider the dangers involved.
Why Stall?
Anyone who takes a quick look at the USPA Canopy Piloting Proficiency Card (the completion of which is required to receive a B license) will notice that most of the maneuvers are of the slowflight variety. The big question jumpers always ask is, "Why do I need to perform stalls? What practical application does it offer?" Learning more about slow flight and stalls not only prepares you to land your parachute better, but also teaches you just how versatile your wing can be.
Reading Surface Wind Conditions
Increase your situational awareness and increase your ability to make better landing pattern and directions decisions. Better anticipate your movement across the ground (holding, running, and crabbing). Anticipate and avoid turbulent conditions.
Braked Canopy Flight
Increase your awareness of a canopy's control range, bank angle and angle of attack.
Increase your landing proficiency and improve your long-spot navigation with a tailwind (when pilot is upwind of the target).
Increase your mobility in breaked flight and thereby ease congestion in the landing pattern through vertical separation.
Relative Glide
Understanding the difference between glide ration and relative glide.
Understanding how to best manipulate your canopy's control range to affect relative glide.
Rear-Riser Stall
Increase your awareness of the slow-flight range of your canopy. Learn to recover from a stall with minimum loss of altitude. Understand when you are no longer maximizing forward glide. Learn how to prevent high-speed stalls (particularly for high-performance canopy pilots).
Toggle Stalls
Understand your canopy's slow-flight characteristics and its limits (the stall point). Improve your landings by making smoother and more precise inputs. Further your knowledge of braked (flat) turns for obstacle avoidance, to minimize altitude loss when turning and to maintain vertical separation from others when turning in the pattern.