FJC Lesson Plan

[Zeppo 0]

I'm looking to get my rating to teach the FJC and I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their FJC lesson plan that I could use and build from for my own lesson plan.

Thanks.

What goes up, must come DOWN!!!

[JustChuteMeNow 0]

I certainly don't mind sharing our FJC but most places have their own format. Also assuming that you are getting your coaches rating, a coach can only teach under the supervisioin of an instructor and again I would think that the instructor would have a syllabus.

Send me a PM if you are looking to compare some different training lesson plans. Good luck on your course.

Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that statistically half of them are stupider than that.

[loudtom 5]

How about the SIM!!
It is what USPA recommends!
If you get your rating with Bram and Ellie that is the
lesson plan you will need.
Doesn't get any easier than that.
Shout out to Bram and Ellie!!!!
lt

tom #90 #54 #08 and now #5 with a Bronze :-)

[Zeppo 0]

I didn't even think of using the SIM's (I'm a Canadian trained skydiver, and have never read the SIM's.)

This will help out alot.

Thanks.

What goes up, must come DOWN!!!

[Danger 0]

You may want to contact your Chief Instructor @ SWOOP. I believe it is still Scott McEwan. He will have the necessary documents for you. Your numbers are a little light to take the course, but perhaps your profile isn't up to date.

To take the CSPA course the prerequesites are:
Coach 1 trained
CSPA B CoP
200 jumps
Posses a set of FJC plans
Completed SSI Pre-course Journal to include ... observe 2 full FJC within the past year, taught 2 modules of the FJC under supervision and complete the course preperation review.

[always 0]

Complete the pre-course learning journal from the cwc site. It is meant to help you get ready. The course requirement is that you have a copy of the FJC lesson plans from your dropzone (swoop).

Order the new SSI manual from cspa. You don't have to be on course to get it.

[tdog 0]

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I'm looking to get my rating to teach the FJC and I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their FJC lesson plan that I could use and build from for my own lesson plan.

Thanks.

I have taught the FJC to about 20 groups in the last year, ranging from 3 to 13 students per class.

I have dialed it in pretty well. Every time I change something to see how it works. When I see a yawn, I take note for the next class.

Everything in the SIM FJC gets covered, but in an order that I found efficient. I actually never use the SIM with the students, who want's to read out of a book???

What I recommend - make your own lesson plan using the resources you have available. That way you will be comfortable with it.

My lesson plan is now 100% memorized. I look over the SIM at breaks to make sure I am not missing stuff, but, I find I am not. It is because I have taken "ownership" in the flow and don't think of it as a lesson plan, but more like a conversation that makes sense to me in the order in which I would discuss something with a friend. I never read an outline in front of the students, or look to a lesson plan. I used to and found that it was boring for the students.

I always welcome questions. When a student asks a question, I tend to answer it - even if it means moving a whole section earlier. I see this as a challenge to adapt, and to see if the student's thought process is better than my own.

Beyond the nuts and bolts - I find spending a large chunk of time on getting the class excited goes a long way. I have for an example taken a lot of the "what is the USPA, what is the FAA, why we can't fly thru clouds" stuff out, knowing that will come in the progression if I can get them hooked - but put in "let me show you a sit fly video", "let me show you my wingsuit, anyone want to try it on." A FJC student needs to know how to be excited and how to do the jump - the politics and rules will come in time, once they choose to do more jumps.

When the class sees what is beyond the FJC, and can already identify a discipline they want to work towards, they get so excited. I generally speaking know what each student wants to do by the end of the course - freefly, a single jump to get it off their list, etc. They are pretty honest, the one time jumpers will tell you if you ask.


Here is my general order. But if you print it out and teach from it, you will bore your students because it will not be your own... I recommend you type yours up. Delete the file. Type it again. Delete the file. Type it again. Delete the file. When you can type it twice in a row the same way without thinking about it, you will be ready to teach spontaneously and confidently to your students:

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Pull Hand Signal - Most Important Thing in Skydiving.
Introduce myself
Have the class tell me about themselves (experience)
Show videos of skydiving (I have a custom video I made for the FJC with every discipline).
Show and tell - wingsuits, etc
Talk about what it is like to fly.
Talk about how to learn.
Progression (AFF to Coach to A to D to Instructor)

Medical conditions/concerns/medications

Gear (Accessories SHAGGR)
Gear - Rig (Reserve, AAD, Handles, PC, Main, ETC) while in classroom

Gear - Tear open a main with student with most experience wearing harness. Teach all components. Quiz class on names

Gear - while student wearing harness - toggles, rear riser inputs, break fire, and how to control with a broken line


Bathroom Break and review

Classroom - pull priorities

Classroom - body position and all hand signals for body position corrections

Classroom - dive flow for freefall and all hand signals for reminders of diveflow

Mockup - practice exits, twice for everyone

Horizontal trainer - practice diveflow, twice for everyone while wearing a rig and throwing the PC.

Break and review

Classroom - Canopy Ground Speed, Airspeed, windsocks, landing into the wind

Classroom - major fatality risk, low turns. Brake turns, have students demonstrate with hands a brake turn.

Classroom - how a canopy flares (advanced stuff I know, but they get it). Pendulum effect, angle of attacks effect on speed and lift.

Classroom - flaring too high, too low.

Classroom - landing pattern, adjusting

Classroom - photos of landing area, obstacles.

Outside - watch a load land. Find the worst flare and have a student repeat back to the class why the flare did not work using the scientific terms of angle of attack, lift, speed, etc

Outside - identify landing area, outs, hazards. Walk a pattern based upon current winds.

Outside - PLF into the peas

LUNCH

Aircraft emergencies

Canopy - there, square, steerable

Canopy - fixable mals, (line twists, hung slider, brake fire, horseshoe)

Canopy - video - malfunctions (including two out, line twists, etc)

Break and review

EPS - hard pull, impossible pull.

Vests - practice EPs

Hanging harness - EPs

Quiz verbal

Quiz written

Final questions

How to pass AFF

Jump

Note - a lot of the breaks are not shown in my list. In a class of more than a few - you can tell people to take a breather when you are working one-on-one with others. The hanging harness and horizontal trainers are good times for people to get a few quiet moments.

[riggerrob 643]

Try asking Tim Grech - over at Niagara Skydive Center. He has a pretty good lesson plan.