In addition to the topics discussed for the SOLO Certificate, the following additional topics need to be discussed: 

Preparation 

• Independent weather assessments 
• Potential issues with new equipment, downsizing 

Inflight

• Issues on 2-way climb outs, and
• Emergency aircraft exit altitudes can be a bit lower now if needed.

Freefall

• Freefall 2-way problems, and
• Losing track of your 2-way partner
• Tracking direction 
• Hard deck for breakoff 

Canopy Control

• Canopy avoidance drills, and what to do if you can't avoid,
  • The two square canopies out scenarios (refer to SCE B)
    • Cutting away down planes,
    • Identifying the dominant canopy,
    • Steering and landing sides by sides, and
    • Steering and landing biplanes.
    • The novices need to understand the risk of entanglement if cutaways are performed
• Group landing patterns
• Techniques to correct direction on landing (refer to SCE) 
• Refine approach to malfunctions (low speed, high speed, correctible) 
• Hard deck. 
• Physically rehearse responses to low speed and high speed malfunctions 

Equipment

• EPs need to be rehearsed and updated with each gear transition 
• RSL’s, and AAD’s have limitations and the novice needs to be aware of the situations where these devices could be a disadvantage.
  • Spinning malfunctions, prolonged level flights, and high-speed landings
• Offset settings for altimeters and AADs
• Discuss gear transitions and borrowing gear. See PIM 2B. 
• AAD auto power off settings 

Technical Knowledge

• Water Landing (A full unintentional water landing briefing is mandatory at this point).
  • There are many key points to stress:
    • Avoidance,
    • Get to solid ground or shallow water if possible,
    • Avoid moving water,
    • Preparation,
      • Loosening the harness,
      • Shoes, gloves, helmet (open visor, remove gloves/shoes if time permits)
      • Inflate floatation device (if available),
    • Flare as normal,
    • After landing
      • Long deep breaths to retain oxygen,
      • Release RSL,
      • Release main canopy,
      • Front loop down and out of the harness,
      • Swim away from the canopy,
      • Tread water and disrobe,
      • Swim for shore, 
    • Do not attempt to cut away prior to landing
    • Saving the equipment is not the priority 
• Low Visibility Landing Jumps
  • Specifically discuss the following generic concepts:
    • Eyewear selection
    • Visor selection
    • Altimeter backlight
    • Selecting safe alterate landing areas
    • Obstacle awareness
    • Landing in deep brakes
    • PLF
• The full night and water jump endorsements must be acquired by the novice prior to intentionally performing these types of jumps. A SSE is responsible for certifying this endorsement.