Rambling On ⭐️ Drop Zone Action e-News #577 (11-17 September 2023)

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Achievements

⭐️ Connor – Completed AFF
⭐️ Chaice – Completed AFF

⭐️ Natisha Dingle – “500 Club Baby!” – Womens’ Speed World Champion!

Congratulations! 

Tish – with Ron and Macca – who are wearing her 2 Gold Medals – photo by Skydive Ramblers

Monday 11th September  9 fun jumpers made 2 loads happen.
Chaice did AFF Stages 5 & 6, and Randall did AFF Stages 7 & 8.

Chaice AFF Stage 5 – photo by Robin
Chaice AFF Stage 6 – photo by Robin
Randall AFF Stage 8 – photo by OliM

Tuesday was not so busy. However there were 3 fun jumpers here and they got 3 Cessna 182 loads done.


Wednesday was busier. 10 fun jumpers were here and 5 loads happened.
Our Tandems today were Gabrielle J., Kendra K., Geethu M., Joyce M. and Mesnyl S..

Gaby tandem – photo by OliM
Geethu tandem – photo by OliM
Michelle tandem – photo by Robin

Thursday 6 fun jumpers were here and 1 load. Our Tandems today were Barrie & Lynden J..

Barrie & Lynden tandems – photo by OliM

Friday things picked up. 27 fun jumpers arrived and 6 loads were done.
Our Tandem today was Lindsay C.. Student Chaice did AFF Stages 7 & 8. Li did 2 B-Rel Coach jumps with Toddy.

Lindsay tandem – photo by OliM
Chaice AFF Stage 7 – photo by Adrian
Chaice AFF Stage 8 – photo by Adrian

Saturday was busy! There were 71 fun jumpers here and the plane didn’t shut down for 16 loads.
Our Tandems today were Olivia Z., Benjamin H., and Sina B.
David did AFF Stage 1.  Benjamin P. did AFF Stages 4 & 5, Connor did AFF Stages 5, 6 & 7 and Chaice did Stage 9 – completing his AFF Course. Congratulations!
Matthew & Yelsson did a B-Rel Coach jumps with Li.  And Mossy ran his canopy course over the weekend.

Olivia tandem – photo by Robin
Sina tandem – photo by OliM
David TAFF Stage 1 deployment – photo by Weaver
Ben AFF Stage 4 – photo by OliM
Ben AFF Stage 5 – photo by Adrian
Connor AFF Stage 5 – photo by OliM
Connor AFF Stage 6 – photo by OliM
Connor AFF Stage 7 – photo by OliM
Chaice AFF Stage 9 – photo by OliM
Will (on the left) with his dad Benjamin, who did a Tandem with OliM (on the right) – photo by Aaron Fels

On Sunday there were still 59 fun jumpers here and 15 loads went up. Our only Tandem today was Paul G..
David did AFF Stage 2,  Sameer did AFF Stages 3 & 4,  Benjamin P. did AFF Stages 6 & 7,  Connor did AFF Stage 8 & 9 – completing his AFF Course. Congratulations!

And Denzil did a B-Rel Coach jump. From our Load Energiser:

“Hey Team, I did 3 LO jumps on the weekend. First one was OS camera for Will. 2nd was a 3 way with Hamish and Denzil which went really well with 3 points, they went on to jump with each other again. 3rd was with Ken working on his fall rates.

Cheers. Aaron Fels.”

Paul tandem – photo by Adrian
David AFF Stage 2 – photo by Robin
Sam AFF Stage 3 – photo by Adrian
Sam AFF Stage 4 – photo by Adrian
Ben AFF Stage 6 – photo by OliM
Ben AFF Stage 7 – photo by OliM
Ben AFF Stage 7 – photo by Shelby
Connor AFF Stage 9 – photo by OliM
Ken – photo by Aaron Fels
Hamish & Denzil – photo by Aaron Fels

Bellas Training Weekend

Bellas smashed out nine training jumps in a little over 30 hours at Skydive Ramblers this weekend. They are gearing up for the State Championships on 11th-12th November – come along to cheer them on!

Photos by Michael Young
Bellas training – Photo by Michael Young
Bellas September training – Photo by Michael Young
Bellas September training – Photo by Michael Young

See ya,

Macca and Team Ramblers.


Reviews & Visitor Book Comments

🌟 Joyce M.: “Awesome experience!”
🌟 Geethu M.: “Thank you for awesome experience.”
🌟 Gabrielle J.: “Thank you for a wonderful time falling from the Sky!  Loved it 😊”
🌟 Kenra K.: “Thankyou!!!”
🌟 Karl H.: “Slaying dragons.”
🌟 Barrie J.: “Fantastic – love life!”
🌟 Olivia Z.: “Amazing!!  Best experience 😊 Thank you!!”
🌟 Sina B.: “It was breathtaking!  Thank you so much 😊.”
🌟 Paul G.: “Awesome experience.  Adrian the instructor was great can’t wait until next time.”

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