u/clarissaswallowsall

Downwind standing landing?

New to diving and I did my AFF Cat A and Cat B today. My instructor was excellent and definitely made the experience great for me, but I was wondering if she was being nice when she said that landing standing on a downwind was hard? I kind of got a little nervous on my Cat B. Our winds kept changing direction by the time we were up today so we had to do different landing patterns on the fly but I'm also a small person on a student canopy so I have crazy long airtime before I hit 1000 ft to get to holding. Then I caught the downwind at 300ft and it pushed me pretty far down the field..I was honestly trying to avoid an obstacle (big pile of rocks) and only stood up because I was afraid if I fell back I would hit the rocks.. my instructor just started cheering for me and I thought she was trying to make me feel better for the jump. Am I right or is it actually a thing thats impressive?

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u/clarissaswallowsall — 3 days ago