What Distinguishes a Free-Falling Frame from a Fermi-Walker Frame?

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What is the difference between a free-falling frame and a Fermi-Walker frame ?
 
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Fermi-Walker is free-falling if the path is free-falling. But Fermi-Walker can also be constructed for an time-like worldline.
 

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