I am a new AFF student. I did a Tandem and ground school and had a two week break and did my first jump course today. During the break I bought a New Viplo FT50 from Chutingstar. On the way up I checked the Alti with my Instructors at 0, 1k, 2.5k, and 13k. All Good. Exit, COA, Practice Touches Etc, pulled at 5,500. Under Canopy I turned into the Pattern at 1k and felt high. Instructor came over radio and said do some turns and burn altitude your too high, then told me to turn base. When I made my base turn my Alti said 300 but I knew I was way higher than that. He told me to turn Final and my Alti said 0. When I landed it was -300. Now I picked the FT50 because I liked the Dial face and it had good reviews. I do think the under 1k part is hard to read, but it being off this much concerns me as without the instructor on the radio I would have been out of whack and way to high etc. Thoughts? Again I zeroed on the ground and in Freefall it was on point. I had a stuck slider on deployment but other than that no issues under canopy.
