Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #455 (8-14 March 2021)

 Ross Nihill – Completed AFF
 Kieran McKenzie – Completed AFF
 Aaron Dean – Completed AFF
 David Moore – Completed AFF

PHOTO MISSED FROM LAST WEEK

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Monday 8th March. Our newest student Aaron Campbell continued his course and did Stages 2 & 3 of his AFF Course.  Ross Nihill and Kieran McKenzie both did Stages 7, 8 & 9 – completing their AFF Course. Congratulations, well done.

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On Tuesday we had two new first jump students arrive. David Moore and Laura Jones started their AFF Course.  Aaron Dean finished his after a successful Stage 9. Another Congratulations! Daniel Cunneen was back for Stages  5, 6 & 7.

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David and Laura got stuck into it on Wednesday, successfully completing Stages 2, 3 & 4 and Aaron Dean did jumps towards his B-Licence.

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Thursday was a bit quiet however David  did get AFF Stages 5 & 6 done.

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Friday started out a funky weather day. There were tricky winds and threatening clouds around. The 2021 Virtual Aussie National Champs were on and the competitors took to the skies and dodged the clouds. However 100 YEAR OLD Greg Lee was patient, and after the rain cleared and the winds turned perfect Greg Lee and Raynette Kise took to the skies for Greg’s historic Tandem, supporting Kidney Health Australia. After a terrific freefal from 12,000 feet Tandem Master Adrian made the perfect landing with Greg.

In other News Speed competitor Shane Turner smashed the Australian and World Freefall Record with a confirmed 513 kilometers and hour skydive!!!!

Not to be outdone David Moore successfully managed AFF Stages 7 & 8.

Also our Pilot Sarah did a Tandem with Oli.

Greg Lee’s 100th Birthday Tandem

Videos of Greg’s 100th Birthday Tandem Skydive

Greg Lee has done a tandem skydive on his 100th birthday to celebrate a wonderful life with his recently departed wife, Iris, that he would not have had without the work of Kidney Health Australia, the research they support and the generous donor that allowed a kidney transplant to save her life in 1977.

Please get behind Greg and donate as little or as much as you can to support the work of Kidney Health Australia including funding research that makes a difference to millions of lives with 1 in 10 people being affected worldwide with chronic kidney disease.

👉 https://www.mycause.com.au/page/244475/100th-birthday-skydive-supporting-kidney-health

10 News First Queensland

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There was an early start to the Nationals Competition on Saturday. The weather behaved. Both Cessna Caravans were busy. Charlie, Leticia and Noah De Mey arrived for Tandems for Leticia’s Birthday.

Our newest student Ben Gordon started his AFF Course.  Tony van der Linde was back for AFF Stages 2, 3 & 4. Matthew Elliott, Laura Jones and Todd Smith all did Stages 5 & 6, Chloe Nicol did Stages 6 & 7 and David Moore did Stage 9  – completing his AFF Course. Another Congratulations.

Lots of Fun Jumping was happening; flatties, B-Rels, freefliers and swoopers and other Fun Jumpers all had a great day.

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The Aussie Nationals Competition was up early again on Sunday. Business as usual! Competitors, fun jumpers, novices and students all dodged the clouds! New faces arrived; Jayden Stephens, Nicky Tai and Georgia Hill did Tandem jumps.  Ben Gordon did AFF Stages 2, 3 & 4 and Laura Jones continued with Stages 6 & 7. What a great weekend!

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2021 Virtual Australian National Skydiving Championships

Big Special “Well Done” to Ben the Competition Meet Director, and to our pilots flying the competition loads, and to our Manifest Staff for keeping everything moving along. And to the Coach House Café staff who kept us all fed!

8-way FS Inter

Team members of the ‘Zoonotic Spillovers’ were: Laura Fitzpatrick, Anna Van Der Vlugt (video), Dougal Munford, Geoffrey Moss, Kerry Hook, Jason Schloss, Martin Klapper, Chris Dodds, and Talis Steele.

4-way Blast

We had 3 Teams competing here at Toogoolawah in the 4-way Blast discipline.

• Team ‘NaSTy Flu“: Fred Rae, Shane Simons, Luke Everett, Todd Dowsley, and Shane Irving (video)
• Team ‘We’re not sick. We’re Sick!‘: Guy Richard Gobourn, Bhatt Parth, Adam Cosgrove, Stak McGlinchey, Kevin Young (video)
• Team ‘Chopsticks‘: Maria Rau, Kristina Truesdale, Zhi Jun Wei, Martin Klapper, and Christopher Blinks (video)

Speed Competitors

Speed competitors were Natisha Dingle, John Hannan, Shane Turner, Susann Guettler, Rosie Dodgson, Brendan Hunter, Jessica Johnston, Luke Everett, and Adrian Bramwell.

Speed competitor Shane Turner smashed the Australian and World Freefall Record with a confirmed 513 kilometers and hour skydive!!!!

Another record has just been ratified unanimously by the Sport and Competition Committee! Congratulations to Natisha Dingle who set a new Australian record for Speed Skydiving (female division), reaching a freefall speed of 473.72kph during round 1 of competition!

Wingsuit Performance Fliers

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Photo Album – Quick links

• Steve Fitchett – Ramblers website – event photo gallery – 2021 National Champs:

• Steve Fitchett’s Facebook page – event photo album: “2021 Australian Virtual Nationals – Toogoolawah part 1”
• Skydive Ramblers Facebook page – 2021 Nationals photo album – photos by Sonja Bruss & Steve Fitchett

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Ramblers YouTube – Nationals Playlist

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INTIME SCORING – RESULTS

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7 NEWS coverage

“Skydiving competitors are being judged from Melbourne”

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See ya,

Macca and Team Ramblers.

VISITOR BOOK COMMENTS

 Noah de Mey: “So good will be back.”

 Leticia de Mey: “Best Birthday present ever!  Thankyou for my memories with the boys!!”

 Georgia Hill (by Donna Beames): “Thankyou so much for the support from everyone as I was freaking out for my daughter! Massive thanks for Olly for taking great care of her.”