AIRWARENESS

After ground training, it’s time for your first jump. You’ll go with two instructors who guide you from exit all the way to deployment. Under canopy, we coach you via radio to a safe landing.

• Focus: stability, altitude checks, pull at the right moment
• Under canopy: basic steering, landing pattern, flare timing
• After landing: video debrief with one clear focus point for jump 2

Jump two follows the same structure. Repetition creates calm. You’ll notice you have more mental space to actually feel what you’re doing, instead of simply “doing what you have to do.”

• Focus: more consistent stability, more awareness in your body position
• Under canopy: more control and calm in your circuit
• After landing: video debrief, a small adjustment with a big impact

As your foundation gets stronger, we build on it. In jump three, heading control is added: controlled 360-degree turns to the left and right, and returning cleanly to your original heading.

• Focus: controlled turns, stopping on the correct heading
• Under canopy: more independent flying, better timing on your landing
• After landing: video debrief, precision over power

Jump four feels like a real milestone for many people. You start combining multiple elements in one jump. You learn to initiate a movement and return to stable flight straight away, with control.

• Focus: forward loops and immediately regaining control
• Under canopy: a more consistent pattern, a calmer final approach
• After landing: video debrief, where you gain efficiency

In jump five, we move into skills you’ll use everywhere later on. You’ll get introduced to backflying and learn tracking, so you understand how to create safe separation in the air.

• Focus: backfly basics, controlled return to belly
• Tracking: body position, direction, awareness
• After landing: video debrief, space and timing

This is your exam jump. You show that you can do what you’ve learned so far. Once this is complete, you’re ready to jump solo.

• Focus: executing everything with calm and awareness
• Safety: procedures on time and clean
• After landing: debrief, checklists, ready for solo

After your final jump, we wrap up the AFF phase. Your foundation is solid, and now the fun part starts: building jump numbers and expanding your skills.

Now that you’re cleared for solo, we build routine. You learn to prepare your jump independently, execute your plan, and make conscious choices. This is where many people feel it really starts to “click.”

• Focus: independent jump run awareness, altitudes, stable procedures
• Under canopy: a tighter pattern, better distance and altitude judgement
• After landing: short debrief, take one concrete improvement point into the next jump

Once your solo basics are under control, you’ll start jumping with other skydivers. In five jumps you learn the fundamentals of formation skydiving: approaching safely, taking grips, holding levels, and most of all: awareness.

• Focus: approach, slowing down, levels, clear communication
• Safety: separation and break-off discipline
• After landing: video debrief and clear agreements for the next jump

Your parachute isn’t a “taxi down,” it’s a flight phase. In five canopy control jumps you work on control, awareness, and safety. You improve your circuit, timing, and landings, and learn how to deal consciously with traffic in the landing area.

• Focus: pattern discipline, predictable flying, flare timing
• Skills: altitude management, reading the wind, safe separation under canopy
• Result: more confidence, better landings, less “guesswork”

On this jump, you exit at 1,200 meters and deploy after a few seconds. This builds calm and routine in your procedures, and gives you extra time to train under canopy with intention.

• Focus: exit, staying stable, a clean deployment sequence
• Under canopy: focused canopy control training

These are your jump numbers. You use them to practice, repeat, and develop your own style. Sometimes you jump purely for fun, sometimes you plan a focused training jump, and sometimes you do a simple formation.

• Focus: independence, consistency, calm procedures
• Optional: simple formations, tracking discipline, personal training goals

You learn to pack your parachute independently. Not just because you need to, but because it makes you truly understand your gear. That builds confidence, and it makes you a more complete skydiver.

To keep progressing, you need knowledge of regulations, equipment, meteorology, and core skydiving principles. You’ll get study materials and we plan moments to go through questions. At the end of the week, you take the theory exam.

When all parts are complete, we finish with the presentation of your A-license. This is the point where you’re no longer “someone who just started,” but can truly take part as an independent skydiver.

Want to keep going after Airwareness? You can do extra jumps and simply pay per jump. We’ll help you choose what makes the most sense at that moment: more routine, more coaching, or simply building jump numbers.