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1) What happens to a jumper's fall rate when performing
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rolls, loops, or other freeflying maneuvers?
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|\ a) Increases.
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|\ b) Decreases.
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|\ c) Stays the same. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a) Increases.
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2) What happens to a visual altimeter when it's in the
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jumper's burble? |\




|\ a) Reads unreliably.
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|\ b) Nothing.
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c) Reads high. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a) Reads
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unreliably.


3) What is the best way to recover from a stall to full
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glide?


|\ a) Quickly counteract with toggle input.
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|\ b) Pull legs up into a tight ball.
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, c) Smoothly raise the controls. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔c) Smoothly raise the controls.
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4) Describe an aerodynamic stall as it applies to a ram-air
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canopy?
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a) Sudden state of increased glide and increased rate of
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descent.
b) Stable state of decreased glide and increased rate of
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descent.
c) Stable state of increased glide and descreased rate of
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descent. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔b) Stable state of
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decreased glide and increased rate of descent. |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




5) When does a dynamic stall occur?
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|\ a) When the front risers are pulled down quickly.
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b) At the end of a flare when the jumper begins to rock
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back under the canopy.
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|\ c) At the beginning of a flare. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔b)
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|\ At the end of a flare when the jumper begins to rock back
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|\ under the canopy. |\ |\




6) What happens after a dynamic stall if the tail is held
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lower than the nose? |\ |\ |\

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