Instructional Rating Manual Skydiving
USPA has just released the latest versions of the Skydiver’s Information Manual and Instructional Rating Manual. As in past years, the manuals have a two-year production cycle, which means they are valid for rating courses in 2016 and 2017. Examiners and candidates at any USPA Rating Course that takes place following the release of the manuals must use the new versions. This will eliminate confusion caused by course candidates or examiners using different manuals, especially in coach and tandem courses, since the new manuals contain many changes for those training methods. Ms Excel 2007 Formula Tutorial Pdf Free Download here.
Several years ago, the USPA Board began allowing coaches to supervise and jump with freefall students while they are progressing through static-line or instructor-assisted-deployment training programs. Once a student progresses beyond Category B and starts to freefall with short delays, a coach may supervise the student in the airplane and observe the student’s exit and freefall.
The coach-course information in the IRM now includes guidelines for this. Additionally, coach candidates now have the option of making one of their evaluation jumps in Category D. This means that the coach candidates observe exit, freefall and deployment then debrief the skydives using the same rules and guidelines that apply to static-line and IAD instructors. Because tandem instructor candidates will have already received this solo-evaluation-jump training (since holding a previous instructional rating is a prerequisite for attending the tandem course), USPA removed it from the Tandem Instructor Rating Course. Although the printed SIM and IRM remain unchanged during their two-year cycles, USPA makes revision documents available for download at uspa.org. The online SIM incorporates these changes soon after the board approves them, so the online version stays as current as possible. Otis Jet Engine Book Free here. USPA is currently researching the best way to provide a digital copy of the IRM since many members—mostly from foreign countries—have requested one.