e-News #298 (2-8 Oct. 2017)

Achievements

Thomas Plevnik – Completed AFF
Cameron Candy – Certificate A
Tim Allonby – Certificate C
Lachlan Neill – Certificate C
Taylor Janssan – Certificate C & Star Crest
Guillaume Cornet – Star Crest
Craig Kelly – Certificate D

Richard Martin – Head-Up Freefly Crest
Alicia Moisel – Head-Up Freefly Crest
Michael Oro – Head Up Freefly Crest
Ian Purvis – Head-Up Freefly Crest
Chris Smith – Head-Up Freefly Crest
Jamie Cooper – Head-Down Freefly Crest
Dmitry Khryukin – Head-Up & Head-Down Freefly Crest
Ben Skuce – Head-Up Freefly Crest & Certificate D

Monday 2nd October started a huge freefly week with the “Down Under Dynamics” team.  Luckily there was plenty of briefing to be done as the first day’s weather turned out pretty bad.  Head Coach Mason Corby, with coaches Matt Boags, Simon Colmer, Richie Convery, Dimitri Di Denko, Tayne Farrant, Keith Grealy, Danny Helmy, Stewart Kemp, Ben Lucock, Reed Ramage, Scott Hiscoe, Andrew Keir, Jimmy Cooper and camera flyer Tommy Siera were all assembled.

On Tuesday the weather started ordinary but came good when the fog lifted. The Dynamics were underway, and jump hard all 77 members did. Ramblers had  two tandems to take care of, well done Rebecca Martin and Courtney Ewing.

Also our 1st Jump Course graduate from Monday, student Thomas Plevnik did Stages 1 and 2 of his AFF.

Wednesday’s weather was almost perfect. Thomas Plevnik did Stages 3 & 4 of his AFF Course.

Mason’s group managed 25 loads for the day. Marj our new Cessna Caravan didn’t know what hit here!! Welcome to Skydiving!

Thursday was busy with both aircraft flat out all day till sunset. The Freefliers did 32 loads & they were happy. So was our newest student Connor Klein who did Stages 1 & 2 of his AFF Course.

Roger Mulckey arrived with  Wind Tunnel students Elise Smith-Bessen and Marlies Stanek who did AFF Stages 1, 2, & 3.

Thomas did Stages 5, 6 & 7.

Friday was almost as good with 27 loads done. Our newest tandem was Arshvir Madan who loved his family’s Gift Voucher.

Marlies Stanek did Stage 4 and Elise did Stages 4 & 5 of their Wind Tunnel Freefall Courses

Ellery Miles and Ben Galvin did Stages 5 & 6 of their AFF Courses and Thomas Plevnik completed Stage 9 of his AFF! Well done Tom!

Saturday didn’t happen. It was clouded out for most of the day. The Dynamics end of boogie kicked in.

On Sunday things were back to normal. Our tandems were Lue-Shane Bentley, Eric Lim, Holiday Say Hoon Tan, Darren Wooster and Steven Thomas..

Our newest students into the Sport were James Gentle, Glenn Isaac and Jackson Brockwell who all did Stage 1 AFF. Also Greg Casey and Aaron Brogden both did their Stage 5.

It was the end of a great week, thank you Mason and your terrific staff and group of Dynamites, it was a pleasure having you all here. And it is also a big thank you to Cameron Candy our dynamic pilot of the last 9 months who is off for bluer flying skies in his home New Zealand.

See ya!
Macca & Team Ramblers.