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The Accelerated Free-Fall course, short AFF course, is a method of freefall training for student skydivers. It is called "accelerated" because it is internationally recognized as the most efficient form of freefall training and thus, the fastest way for skydiving students to learn the skills necessary in order to safely experience solo free-fall and skydive entirely self-supervised.

The USPA AFF course is based upon a series of nine successive levels, and follows a simple to complex skills development strategy. That means, you will have to satisfactorily complete the targeted learning objectives of each level before being allowed to progress to the next and more challenging level. Depending on the AFF student’s personal need and circumstances, it might therefore be necessary to repeat individual levels before being able to safely progress to the next task.

During the first 3 levels of the USPA AFF course you will be accompanied by 2 AFF instructors. On each level they will gradually grant you more and more freedom in free-fall. Typically, by jump # 3, the AFF student will experience his or her first full release, meaning that both AFF instructors will let go of you entirely, allowing for you to find your balance without anybody hanging on to the student harness.

Once an AFF student has proven basic survival and free-fall skills such as stability-, heading- and hover control and is able to deploy his or her parachute unassisted at a pre-assigned altitude, training will resume with only one AFF instructor in USPA AFF course levels 4 through 9.

During these later stages of the Accelerated Free-Fall course, the AFF instructor will allow the AFF student maximum freedom to find his or her own wings. Your AFF instructor will guide you step-by-step through more advanced skydiving tricks, like determining the right spot over ground to exit the aircraft, performing solo exits and fly-aways, maintaining free-fall control around all axis with turns, rolls and loops, re-gaining stability within 5 seconds after performing aerobatics and landing your parachute without radio assistance in a designated landing area.

Once an AFF skydiving student has successfully demonstrated all necessary skills to pass AFF course level 9, he or she will be cleared for free-fall self-supervision and can go for the first ever solo free-fall skydive.