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1. Ask a friend or the DZ camera to film from the side of the landing area.
2. Watch it with your FlySight track open at the same moment.
3. Write down one thing to keep and one to change.

What you'll feel: Often surprising — most pilots think they flare more evenly than they do.

Why it works: Video shows the body and wing; FlySight shows speeds and heights. Together they explain each other.

In your data: Landing Video Studio syncs video to your FlySight data. Open

1. Find a coach or course; bring your goals and your logbook.
2. Agree on one skill per jump.
3. Debrief with video and data.

What you'll feel: Less guessing, faster progress.

Why it works: A coach sees the pattern behind single jumps and knows the next step for your wing and conditions.

In your data: Share a jump with a coach through a secure review link. Open

1. After a break, dial everything back: bigger margins, straight-in or the landing you're most comfortable with.
2. Re-do your up-high checks (sweet spot, stalls) on the first jumps back.

What you'll feel: The ground arrives faster than you remember.

Why it works: Timing and judgement are learned feel; they decay without practice.

In your data: Progression shows gaps between jumps and how your numbers moved. Open

1. Feet and knees together, knees slightly bent, chin down.
2. Roll along the side of the body in that order — on grass, from standing, then from a small jump.

What you'll feel: Awkward at first, automatic after a few sessions.

Why it works: Spreading the stop over the body's large muscles instead of the ankles is what reduces the load.

1. Up high, in full flight, flare slowly.
2. Find the point where the horizon stops rising, where your body has swung forward between the A and B lines, or (only with lots of height) where it feels level with eyes closed.
3. Note where your hands are — waist, hips, below?

What you'll feel: The wing goes quiet; your body swings forward and settles.

Why it works: Toggles add camber and angle of attack: speed turns into lift until it balances the descent for a moment.

In your data: Measurement mode on the 270 page reads vertical and horizontal speed between two points. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Read the manufacturer's notes on stalls first.
2. High, clear air: slowly, symmetrically, deeper and deeper brakes.
3. At the first stall signs, let up slowly and evenly; expect a surge.

What you'll feel: Soft wing, rocking, trailing edge flutter, air on the back of your legs — then you drop back.

Why it works: Past the critical angle of attack the airflow separates from the top skin. Uneven hands stall one side first.

In your data: Your track shows the stall as horizontal speed collapsing while vertical speed jumps. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Toggles in hands; grab the rears high.
2. Pull slowly and evenly; learn the look and sound.
3. Let up SLOWLY and stop the surge.

What you'll feel: Very little warning compared with toggles; a few centimetres decide it.

Why it works: Rears raise the angle of attack of the whole wing without much drag, so the stall comes at a higher airspeed and more suddenly.

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Toggles stowed; then again with toggles released and in hand.
2. Then a whole practice pattern on rears — up high.

What you'll feel: Flat, efficient heading changes with little height used.

Why it works: A rear riser raises the angle of attack on one side: that side slows and the wing yaws toward it while the glide stays flat — an avoidance tool.

In your data: The 270 page shows heading change and height used for any turn you tag. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Legs together and up; shift hips and shoulders toward the turn.
2. Compare with a toggle turn of the same size.

What you'll feel: Smooth and balanced; the turn tightens the longer you hold it.

Why it works: Loading one side of the lines rolls the wing without distorting it; as it rolls it dives, so the second 90° comes faster than the first.

In your data: Compare turn rate and height per 90° between harness and toggle turns. Open

1. Settle at sweet-spot depth.
2. Let one toggle up a little (or pull the other a little) to turn.

What you'll feel: Slow, gentle turn with little height used.

Why it works: The wing is already slow with a low descent rate; a small difference between the sides turns it without a dive.

In your data: Compare the height used with a full-flight turn of the same size. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Look where you are going first.
2. Line up head, shoulders and hips; lean into the harness before and during the toggle or riser input.

What you'll feel: The canopy answers sooner and more smoothly.

Why it works: The harness input and the toggle or riser now ask the wing for the same thing instead of fighting each other.

1. Up high first: a whole pattern in light brakes.
2. Then on a real approach, back to full flight well before the flare — the article describes several seconds (8–10) of full flight so the wing has its speed back.

What you'll feel: A slower, flatter or steeper path depending on your wing — learn which.

Why it works: Light brakes change speed and descent rate together; the change in glide is different for each canopy, which is why you measure it.

In your data: Measurement mode gives the glide ratio over any stretch of the track. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Practise the flare from brakes up high many times.
2. Less speed = less flare power: the flare is smaller and finishes sooner.

What you'll feel: Gentle, slow arrival with a short flare.

Why it works: Speed is what the flare turns into lift; starting slower leaves less of it.

1. Keep the same pattern in the same wind.
2. Adjust where you start each leg, not the heights.
3. Pick ground references for each leg.

What you'll feel: The landing spot stops being a surprise.

Why it works: A repeatable pattern leaves only one variable — where you enter — so errors become easy to see and correct.

In your data: The combined map shows the spread of your touchdowns. Open

1. Up high, fly the same distance in full flight, light brakes and on rears — into wind, downwind and crosswind.
2. Note which gets you furthest on your wing.

What you'll feel: Surprising differences — the answer changes with wind.

Why it works: Glide over the ground is airspeed glide plus or minus the wind; a slower configuration gains into wind less than it loses.

In your data: The wind & glide lab and Measurement mode show glide over the ground. Open

1. Start in light winds.
2. Hold the wing level and the heading steady, a little extra pressure on the upwind toggle in the flare.

What you'll feel: The ground slides sideways under you.

Why it works: The canopy flies through the air; the air moves sideways, so the track drifts. A level wing and a clear area come first.

In your data: Your jump page shows ground track against heading and the wind context. Open

1. Uphill: the ground comes sooner — flare harder and quicker.
2. Downhill: the ground falls away — flare softer and slower.

What you'll feel: Timing changes even when everything else is the same.

Why it works: The flare timing depends on the ground under you, not the level of the landing area you started from.

1. Start from no wind and progress very gradually with your coach.
2. Flare gradually so you don't use up the lift early; be ready to run or slide, and to PLF.

What you'll feel: Fast over the ground, normal in the air.

Why it works: Airspeed (flare power) is unchanged; only ground speed rises — so the flare is the same, the run-out is longer.

1. Up high first, many times.
2. Then under coaching, small changes first.

What you'll feel: The wing turns slower and less in the flare than in full flight.

Why it works: Deeper in the flare there is less speed and the wing is closer to the stall, so the same input turns it less and a big input can drop a wing.

1. Learn rear-riser stalls first (above).
2. Practise rear-riser flares up high many times; then with one brake released as if a line had broken.
3. Whether to land on rears at all is your coach's call for your wing and skill.

What you'll feel: Powerful, with a short range before the stall.

Why it works: Rears stall the wing at a higher speed than toggles; a mistimed rear flare means a fast arrival.

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Up high, lots of room: a hard 90° toggle turn.
2. Match the other toggle to stop the turn, then both toggles together.

What you'll feel: The turn stops and the dive flattens out.

Why it works: Matching the toggles takes away the difference between the sides that drives the turn; adding both raises the angle of attack and ends the dive.

In your data: The 270 page shows turn end, peak descent and the recovery arc. Open

1. Up high: induce a front-riser turn, stop it with both toggles.
2. Then experiment with more toggle on either side to control heading.
3. The article notes rears are not effective for stopping the dive.

What you'll feel: Strong pressure, then the wing levels out.

Why it works: Toggles add camber and angle of attack quickly, turning the dive's speed back into lift.

In your data: See the recovery as vertical speed falling back on the 270 page. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. The article sets a prerequisite of many jumps dedicated to canopy work (it names 200) plus coaching.
2. Up high first with small, gentle riser input.
3. Set up higher than normal — your coach plans the details.

What you'll feel: Speed builds fast; the recovery takes more height than it looks.

Why it works: Fronts lower the angle of attack and trade height for speed; the wing needs height to swing back and level out.

In your data: Compare height per 90° and recovery between approaches. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Up high, toggles in your hands: pull both front risers down a few centimetres and hold.
2. Feel the pressure grow and notice how long the wing holds the dive before the risers want to come back up.
3. Let the risers up gently and watch the wing recover by itself — the natural recovery arc; read your altimeter for the height each dive used.
4. The article's rule: let the wing fly normally for several seconds before any flare; never flare with the fronts still down.

What you'll feel: Riser pressure builds every centimetre; the ground comes faster; the wing settles back to trim on its own if you let it.

Why it works: Fronts lower the angle of attack, so height is traded for airspeed. Pulling further only deforms the wing — it does not add speed. The wing then pitches back up by itself, and that arc takes height.

In your data: The 270 page shows the dive, the peak descent rate and the recovery arc of any tagged turn. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. Toggles stay in your hands throughout; grip the rears with the toggles held.
2. Up high, out of a gentle dive: a small rear-riser input to flatten the glide while the speed is still there.
3. Before the rears get heavy or the wing goes quiet, release them and continue the flare on the toggles — one smooth motion, no pause.
4. Repeat until the hand-off needs no thought; your coach decides if and when it belongs anywhere near a landing.

What you'll feel: Rears plane the wing out with the speed kept; the toggles then take over as the speed bleeds off — a soft, continuous feel when timed right, a drop when the rears are held too long.

Why it works: Rears raise the angle of attack without much drag, so they keep airspeed while flattening the path — but they stall early and abruptly. Toggles add camber and drag: less efficient, far more stall margin. Hand off while the speed is high and the rears are light.

In your data: Measurement mode reads horizontal and vertical speed through the plane-out. Open

See it in the explorer: open the sweet spot & stall explorer at this position

1. High, planned, with an experienced partner on a similar wing.
2. One flies base, one chases; neither flies straight at the other.

What you'll feel: Every input becomes visible against the other canopy.

Why it works: Matching another wing forces you to use toggles, rears, fronts and harness precisely.