racer42 0 #26 March 20, 2003 Interesting. Does the AFFI candidate's partner have any requirement to meet. In other words can the partner simply be a trusted, relatively experienced ( A licence or better) jumper who assists the AFF candidate toward their rating?L.A.S.T. #24 Co-Founder Biscuit Brothers Freefly Team Electric Toaster #3 Co-Founder Team Non Sequitor Co-Founder Team Happy Sock Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
webracer 0 #27 March 20, 2003 Don't start passing out the respect yet, you're giving it up way too easily! And, as a note, your AFFI partner has to also be a candidate, or at least that's the way it was. Troy I am now free to exercise my downward mobility. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tonto 1 #28 March 26, 2003 Good question. I turned up at Perris the day before the course started. I got lumped with a massive (Size and attitude) german who told Don Yarling "No man kan srow me oonsable on de exit!" I remember looking at Don and rolling my eyes. When we launched that L3 eval dive - we started to spin. I got off. Don spun the cr*p out of that dude. He must have gone 200 feet when he finally lost his grip. I redocked and carried on. I passed the course OK. One of 6 out of 22. My only practice up until then had been camera for AFF. If I were to try and identify airskills, they would be 1. The ability to work exits 2. No contact flight 3. Range - (fallrate) 4. Vertical aggression when they go "3D" Don't - Chase your slot. Just do the job. If you have a partner - that's great. Just understand you have the power to sink each other on a dive - whether its an Eval - or a live AFF. Good luck! tIt's the year of the Pig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fred 0 #29 March 28, 2003 Quote-- What if the student starts to pull, then waves off? I was transitioning from SL to AFF, and in my SL program at 10 sec delays we still weren't taught to wave off. So he told me, probably 3 times, that if I did happen to just go to pull without waving off, I should just pull. "Don't," he said, "Don't stop your pull to go back and wave off." Naturally, 5500 hit, and I reached for the ripcord, touched it and thought, "Damn, I'm supposed to wave off!" Waved off and pulled. I was quite surprised he passed me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mustard 0 #30 March 29, 2003 So he told me, probably 3 times, that if I did happen t "Don't," he said, "Don't stop your pull to go back and wave off." Naturally, 5500 hit, and I reached for the ripcord, touched it and thought, "Damn, I'm supposed to wave off!" Waved off and pulled. I was quite surprised he passed me. That's so funny! When going through the AFF certification course, the Course Director will mention how much more efficient it is to suggest what you *should* do and avoid the use of the word "don't" because it almost always ends up with the student doing what you did. If someone says, "don't think about [whatever]," it's almost impossible to get your unconscious mind to think about anything else! With students, I usually say, "if you forget to wave, just keep going to the pull, that's what's the important part anyway, not the wave." And sometimes they wave, and sometimes they don't, but they (almost) always pull. *** DJan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
