Rambling On ⭐️ Drop Zone Action e-News #561 (22-28 May 2023)

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

🎉 Achievements 🎉

⭐️ Nathaniel – completed AFF Course
⭐️ Joseph – completed AFF Course

Welcome to skydiving. When you finish AFF, remember to apply for your AFF Stage 9 $100 rebate from the Queensland Parachuting Association, and keep jumping!

⭐️ Josh – A Certificate
⭐️ Alex – B Certificate

⭐️ Aaron – 1000th Jump

Congratulations! 👏

On Monday 22nd May we had great start to the week, there were 23 fun jumpers and 7 loads were done. Our Tandems today were Ben, Georgia, Nicholas, Lachlan & Peta.

New AFF Course student Diana did Stage 1, Steven did Stage 3, Logan did Stages 2, 3 & 4 of his AFF. Morgan did a B-Rel Coach jump with Reece.

🎶 And in the afternoon our local radio station River 94.9 set up in front of the rigging loft for an outside broadcast promoting the Town of Toogoolawah for the Top Tiny Town Tourism Awards. They played great music into the evening and mentioned the skydivers having fun all day, and Peta from 94.9 too to the skies. Thanks for dropping in!

Peta from River 94.9 – rocking her tandem – sunset load – photo by Robin

Tuesday 23rd – 11 fun jumpers got onto 7 loads. New AFF student Diana did Stages 2, 3 & 4, and Laura did Stages 6 & 7.

Wednesday 24th – Numbers swelled to 16 fun jumpers and 3 loads done. New AFF student Diana did Stages 4 & 5, and Joseph did Stage 9 – completing his Course. Congratulations 🎉! Kody, Kseniia, Cameron, David & Jared did 2 B-Rel Coach jumps.

Kody B-Rel Stages 2 & 3 – photo by Shelby

On Thursday 10 fun jumpers got 3 loads done. Kody and Joshua did B-Rel Coach jumps.

On Friday was a slow day. We had 9 fun jumpers on 1 load. Our Tandems today were Tyler and Elouise.

Saturday 27th there were 81 fun jumpers and 14 loads went up. Our Tandems today were Samantha, Shaun, Charlie, Aimee and Edrich. New AFF student Mark did Stages 1, 2 & 3, and Nathaniel did Stages 7 & 8. Matt and Mitchell did B-Rel Coach jumps.

And the Belly Bashers took over for Load Organising with Dawn & Chris.

Samantha tandem freefall – photo by Adrian

Belly Bash

Attendees: Chris & Dawn, Cat, Glenn, Travis, Samir, Holly, Steve, Brendan, James, Kerry, Jeffrey, Greg, Farrell, Fred, Milly, John B., Paul O., Wayne, Michael Y., Jason C., and Craig.

“Another month – another epic BellyBash! We were blessed with crystal clear skies, zero winds, and an influx of SOS legends joining us to get current and hone in their Big-Way skills ahead of next months SOS Australian record attempt! We had an absolute belter organising you guys!!

Thanks again to our super talented camera dudes, Michael and Cambo for making us look good, and to our sponsors: Ramblers, TSC, SQPC, APF and Mee Loft!

Next BellyBash will be on 1st July!”

Chris Dodds.

Sunday there were 47 fun jumpers still here and 9 loads went up. Our Tandems today were Stacie, Maria and Kebin. AFF students Mark did Stage 4, Logan did Stage 5, and Nathaniel did Stage 9. 7 B-Rel Coach jumps were done by Jamie, Ozden, Marcello and Matt.