Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #521 (25-31 July 2022)

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Jason C – Completed AFF
Luis M – Completed AFF
Mark C – Completed AFF
Sid – License
Claire B – E License – back after 18 years!

Monday 25th July and our new students Jason C, Kirsty M & Michael H all did well and completed AFF Stages 3, 4 & 5. 17 jumpers were here and 4 loads were done.

George AFF Stage 4 – doing great – photos by Sara

Kirsty AFF Stage 3 with Fisch – photo OliM

Kirsty AFF Stage 4 with Bear – photo Fisch

On Tuesday there were 20 skydivers here. Another 4 load day. Michael H did AFF Stage 6, Kirsty M did Stages 6 & 7, Jason C did Stages 6, 7 & 8. B-Rel Coach jumps were done by Jon B and Michael H.

Jason AFF Stage 8 – yeeha – photos by Sara

Wednesday was too windy for jumping. Thursday was a bit better weather – wise. 3 loads were done. We had 12 jumpers here. Our Tandem today was Danny C. AFF students Michael H did Stages 7 & 8, Kirsty M did Stage 8, Jason C did Stage 9 – completing his AFF Course. Congratulations! B-Rel Coach jumpers were Tiana H and Corey W.

On Friday we had 21 jumpers here. Cameron C did AFF Stages 5 & 6. B-Rel Coach jumpers were Adrian S and Corey W. It wasn’t the best weather but 5 loads were done.

Saturday dawned and the weather was perfect! There were skydivers everywhere. 72 of them filled the 16 loads that were done, including a 182 load! Our Tandems today were Angela D V and Max S.

B-Rel Coach jumps were done by Sijian (Sid) L and Michael McC. New students Conan V and Yifang Eva L did Stage 1 of their AFF Courses. George N did Stages 4 & 5, and Luis M did Stage 9 – another Congratulations! It was a terrific day.

Mossy had a large crew on his Canopy Handling Course and Dawn and Chris’s Belly Bash had a successful day of Rel Work happening. Susie McLachlan was busy chasing up Intermediate level jumpers. (Keep an eye out for Susie and hit her up for a skydive!). Angels were happening everywhere. It was a great day topped off with a beaut bonfire.

Max ready for duty – photos by Skydive Ramblers

Belly Bash #2

Belly Bash – 6-way spider – photo Charmaine N

Belly Bash – Busting Points – photo Alan R

Belly Bash Kids: Alan, Liam, Li, Charmaine, Travis, Chris, Clinton, Dawn, Jag, Hannah – Photo by Skydive Ramblers

“What’s got 26 legs and 100 sausages?! Belly Bash!

This week saw Ramblers July Belly Bash – a load organising event which is all about building and refining flat flying skills and having fun.

It was amazing to see everyone’s flying progressing over the day as we worked up towards a beautiful sunset bigway on the last load of the day. If you want to see what we got up to over the last two Belly Bash events, see https://vimeo.com/735375008

Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen and to Ramblers, TSC and SQPC for supporting this event.

The August Belly Bash is on the 21st August- check out the Facebook event for more information. “

Chris Dodds

On Sunday morning the weather was not the best. People started leaving early. However our new student Jack C got his AFF Stage 1 done. We did 9 loads altogether and 27 jumpers did them.