
USPA outlines training changes for 2027: instructor continuity and more canopy development
The most relevant USPA training decisions from August, with context for AFF instructors and experienced jumpers.
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Changes to AFF training programmes, licence requirements and federation decisions, with a note on whether they apply in Poland. Always sourced.

The most relevant USPA training decisions from August, with context for AFF instructors and experienced jumpers.
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Why matching handle colours on every student rig could save a student seconds, what USPA rules require today and where a student learns the equipment they jump.
Read storyChanges to training programmes, licence requirements, and what is happening to the AFF course outside Poland — standards usually reach us late, and it is worth knowing what has moved before it moves here.
If you want an answer rather than news, where to start is covered in tandem or AFF. How sources are chosen is in the editorial standard.
From the training programmes and board decisions of the federations, above all USPA and British Skydiving, which publish their manuals in full. A change announced abroad does not become a requirement in Poland, and we always say so. The Polish requirements for a skydiver's certificate are in the guide after the AFF course.