Student putting on a white helmet after landing, canopy on the grass behind him

Guided AFF Route · March 2026

Learning not to fight the door

I thought the course would teach me to be brave. It taught me to be prepared.

Marta

Marta booked a tandem two years ago and never went back for a second one. What stayed with her was not the fall but the feeling of having no idea what was happening. When she wrote to the school, that was her goal: to understand the jump, not to survive it.

The first briefing

“The first morning we did not go anywhere near the aircraft. We stood in the hangar with the mock-up and walked through the exit until I could say each step before doing it. That was the moment I stopped being a passenger.”

Student lying on a mat in the hangar practising the arched body position while Andrew corrects it

What the debrief changed

“Every jump ended at the same table with the same question: what did you notice? I kept a list. By the end the list was about the sky, not about me.” Andrew’s framing was the same each day: the next task follows what she could show, not the plan on the wall.

Marta finished the route with her AFF stages behind her and a clear note about what to work on next. She says the school gave her a way of thinking she now uses well outside the airfield.

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