After half a day of ground training, you will leave the plane, the main canopy being deployed by a static line attached to the plane. You will experience between 2 or 3 seconds of falling.

After two good static line jumps, you will be trained to pull the ripcord by yourself. You will, then, do 3 more static line jumps where you demonstrate your ability by pulling a dummy ripcord as you leave the plane.The static line is still initiating the deployment. You are, then, cleared to do your first actual freefall.