1. Your USPA Representatives
2. USPA Leadership
3. USPA Policy Making
4. The USPA Headquarters Staff
5. USPA Constitution and By-Laws

Section 2 Summary

1. How the BSRs affect safety
2. Waivers and changes to the BSRs

2-1: Basic Safety Requirements

1. Applicability
2. Compliance with Federal regulations
3. Medical requirements
4. Age requirements
5. Student skydivers
6. Winds
7. Minimum opening altitudes
8. Drop zone requirements
9. Pre-jump requirements
10. Extraordinary skydives
11. Parachute equipment
12. Special altitude equipment and supplementary oxygen

2-2: Waivers to the Basic Safety Requirements

1. Why BSRs may need to be waived
2. Classification of waivers
3. Procedures for filing waivers
4. Filing of waivers

3-1: USPA Licenses

1. Background
2. General conditions for licenses
3. Logging jumps for licenses and ratings
4. Verification of Application
5. License privileges and requirements
6. Restricted USPA licenses

3-2: License Exam and Application Procedures

1. License exam instructions
2. Presenting a completed license application
3. License application checklist

3-3: Ratings

1. USPA instructional ratings
2. USPA PRO Professional Exhibition Rating
3. USPA Judge rating
4. FAA ratings

4-1: Student Skill and Knowledge Sets (.pdf)
4-2: Categories A-H: Objectives Overview
4-3: USPA Integrated Student Program: An Introduction

1. Recommendation
2. What is the ISP?
3. Choosing a school
4. What to expect
5. Student equipment
6. Training priorities

5-1: Skydiving Emergencies

1. Practice emergency procedures
2. Prevention and preparation
3. Take action
4. Aircraft emergencies
5. Equipment emergencies
6. Landing emergencies
7. Freefall collisions
8. Canopy collisions
9. Low turns

5-2: Recurrency Training

1. Students
2. Licensed skydivers
3. Changes in procedures
4. Long lay-offs

5-3: Equipment

1. Federal regulations on equipment
2. Main parachute
3. Reserve parachute
4. Harness and container system
5. Main pilot chute
6. Reserve static line (RSL)
7. Automatic activation device (AAD)
8. Static line (main)
9. Borrowing or changing equipment
10. Use of altimeters
11. Accessories
12. Main parachute packing
13. Parachute maintenance

5-4: Pre-Jump Safety Checks and Briefings

1. Equipment preparation is essential
2. Briefings
3. Equipment checklist

5-5: Weather

1. Determining winds
2. Hazardous weather
3. Density altitude

5-6: Aircraft
5-7: Spotting

1. Why spotting is important
2. Priorities
3. Group separation on jump run

6-1: Group Freefall (relative work)

1. What is relative work?
2. Training and procedures
3. Breakoff
4. Other references

6-2: Freeflying, freestyle, and skysurfing

1. The scope of freeflying
2. Qualifications
3. Equipment
4. Training
5. Hazards associated with group freeflying

6-3: Freefall rate of descent and time table

1. A logging aid
2. Computation

6-4: Night jumps

1. Why jump at night?
2. Qualifications
3. Challenges
4. Special equipment
5. Procedures
6. General
7. Group jumps: freefall and canopy

6-5: Water landings

1. Why jump in the water?
2. Training for unintentional water landings
3. Intentional water landings
4. High performance landings in water
5. Water jump safety checks and briefings

6-6: Canopy formations

1. What is canopy relative work?
2. General
3. Qualifications and initial training
4. Equipment
5. Rules of engagement
6. Emergency procedures
7. Night canopy formations

6-7: High altitude and oxygen use

1. Preparation and planning critical
2. Scope
3. Altitude classifications
4. Experience recommended
5. Training recommendations
6. Recommended equipment
7. Recommended preparations
8. Oxygen use procedures
9. Spotting procedures
10. Hazards of openings at higher altitudes

6-8: Camera flying recommendations

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Purpose
4. Equipment
5. Procedures
6. Considerations for filming students

6-9: Wing suit recommendations

1. Purpose
2. Background
3. Qualifications and preparation
4. Equipment
5. Exit techniques
6. Deployment
7. Emergency procedures
8. Initial wing-suit flights
9. Deployment altitude
10. Fly-bys

6-10: Advanced Canopy Flight

1. Introduction and purpose
2. Scope of performance
3. Performance progression
4. Downsizing progression
5. Design progression
6. Practice area

6-11: Advanced Canopy Piloting Topics

Overview
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Scope
4. Instructor qualifications
5. Evaluation
6. Risk assumption

Section 1: Equipment
1. Equipment choice considerations
2. Wing loading
3. Performance enhancing designs
4. Drag reduction
5. Controls: toggles and beyond
6. Accessories
7. Speed
8. Glide

Section 2: Maintenance
1. Environment
2. Collapsible pilot chute and slider
3. Suspension lines
4. Brake lines
5. Packing for an on-heading opening
6. Equipment inspection

Section 3: Breakoff, opening, separation, and canopy traffic
1. Breakoff
2. Traffic

Advanced Exercises
1. General procedures
2. Jump 1—Evaluation jump
3. Jump 2—Basic aerodynamics and effective flaring
4. Jump 3—Flat turns and braked canopy flight
5. Jump 4—Stalls
6. Jump 5—Long spot

Section 7-1: Exhibition jumping

1. Definition
2. How to approach a demo jump
3. Experience and ability
4. Attitude
5. Landing areas
6. Turbulence and target placement
7. Maximum winds
8. Equipment
9. Aerial maneuvers
10. Crowd control
11. Ground signals
12. Announcer
13. Other activities
14. Advice and approval
15. Insurance
16. Related Readings

Section 7-2: Professional Exhibition Rating

1. What is a PRO Rating?
2. Qualifications and procedures

Section 7-3: Instructions for completing FAA Form 7711-2

8-1: Service Awards

1. Introduction
2. Procedures

8-1.1: Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) General Awards

1. Paul Tissandier Diploma
2. FAI Honorary Group Diploma
3. FAI Parachuting Awards

8-1.2: National Aeronautic Association (NAA) Service Awards

1. Frank Brewer Trophy
2. Elder Statesman of Aviation

8-1.3: USPA Service Awards

1. USPA Lifetime Achievement Award
2. USPA Gold Medal for Meritorious Service
3. USPA Chesley Judy Safety Award

8-1.4: Recipients of the USPA Lifetime Achievement Award
8-1.5: Recipients of the USPA Gold Medal for Meritorious Achievement
8-2: Achievement Awards

1. Achievement awards for jump experience
2. Cumulative jumps and freefall time
3. General requirements
4. Presentation

8-3: Performance Awards

1. Awards for Skydiving Skill
2. Prerequisites
3. Canopy award categories
4. Qualifications
5. Application

8-4: Tenure Awards

1. Tenure awards
2. Qualifications

9-1: Federal Aviation Regulations
9-2: Advisory Circulars
9-3: Air Traffic Bulletins