High Wind Speed
Overview
In order to get approved for this skill, you must completed each of the two sections that are detailed within the High Wind Speed training syllabus. Instructors and Trainers have access to this document via STN 4/19.
The High Wind Speed Training encompasses many skills including:
- Walk quickly in all directions including carving
- Complete a series of range of motion moves
- Demonstrate that you can return to your feet from a back flying position
- Complete a serious of spotting scenarios succesfully and to the satisfaction of the authorizing trainer
Pre-requisites
Prior to training for this checkbox, you will need to be a current Level II Instructor and have experience with a range of first time students and return flyers. It will be advantageous to you if your flying abilities with regard to the wind speed are similar to the wind speeds required for the training to achieve the sign off for this rating. Understanding how to control yourself at higher wind speed will make you an overal better flyer and much more aware and competent Instructor.
Objectives
The objective for training and receiving the sign off for this skill is so that you are able to manage the wind tunnel environment during high speed operations. Once flyers skills increase, so will the need for them to receive higher flight wind speeds to match their progression. Even at this stage in the game, after receiving this sign off, you still won't necessarily be teaching them or spotting them during the learning stages of their advanced progression, but once they have been approved to fly their skills with a qualified Instructor, it will mean that you have the ability to monitor them during a session and if it becomes necessary, you can safely enter the tunnel if the need arises to arrest any situation.
Preparation
The best preparation for this training is to continuously work on being an aware Instructor. From taking first time flyer classes through to FS and back flying return flyer groups, being able to watch and understand the characteristics of how the body moves in the wind and how rapid an incorrect position can change the course of someones flight. Having the ability to see situations occur sooner rather than later, being able to read the potential outcome in advance will help to train the brain when it comes to studying similar scenarios at higher wind speeds.
Also, having the personal flying ability in as many orientations as possible and practicing maneuvers at higher wind speeds will help prepare you for how to control yourself if and when you may need to enter the tunnel to control an unstable situation.