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Toogs DZ e-News #307 (4-10 Dec. 2017)
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
- Skydive Ramblers
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Achievements
Jared Eppelstun – Completed AFF
Emma Ceolin – Certificate A
Timothy Laycock – Certificate B
Shelby du Moulin – Certificate B
Tim Kelly – Certificate D
Cherish Camacho Dobson – Head Up Freefly Crest
Matthew Smith – Head Down Freefly Crest
Newsletter time again, it’s Monday 4th December and it’s raining! Actually the whole day was rained out, but on Tuesday we had a few regular jumpers here utilising Charlie the Cessna 182.
On Wednesday the weather was back to normal. We got the 182 and Marj the Caravan up for a couple of loads each. Our new tandems were Taylor and Lachlan Kerr, and Andres Real Prieto – a friend of Kevin Stone. Mid week fun jumpers filled the loads.
Thursday was a beauty! Marj did 4 loads and Charlie did 5. Andres Real Prieto did another tandem. Our two students here were Cory Teunissen who did Stages 3 & 4 and Rafael Faria who knocked over Stage 5.
There were 10 midweek fun jumpers here. The pilots were happy.
Friday started out promising, people everywhere but…. you guessed it. It was all over after 2 good, big loads when the weather moved in. However our two new tandem people, Caitlin and Stuart Gellach managed to get up there and had a ball. So did our new students Dylan Ackroyd-Laycock and Andrew Fraser-Scott who did Stage 1 of their Wind Tunnel Skydiving Course. Jeff Teunissen also did Stage 2 and Cory Teunissen did Stage 5 their AFF Courses. Rafael Faria did Stage 6.
Saturday was a good day despite the weather forecast. We are getting a DZ weather station, coming soon! We had a mixed bag of everything; Tandems, students and 24 funnies were here. Our tandems were Daniel and Katie Schloss, Clint and Lisa Audoss, Danielle MacDonald, Greg Reinke and Kristine “Kit” Forsdike, all friends of Hollies.
Dylan and Andrew did Stage 1 of their Wind Tunnel Skydive Course and Andrew, and Brodie Irwin did Stage 2 also.
Rafael Faria did Stages 7 & 8 of his AFF Course.
Cameron Osborn was back for a new start.
There were a few B-Rels happening too.
Ben, Jon, Sarge and Jason – as Santa – jumped into the Town’s Christmas party – just before the storm! It was a great demo, the kids loved it.
Sunday was sort of the same as Saturday. There were a few more funnies here, about 30. Our only tandem for the day was Stephanie Frick. Brodie carried on with Stages 3 & 4 and Andrew Fraser-Scott did Stages 3, 4 & 5.
Jared Eppelstun did Stages 8 and 9 – completing his AFF, congratulations!
There were lots of people doing B-Rels. The loads were full.
Thanks Team. See ya,
Visitor Book Comment
Kit Forsdike – Was an awesome experience.
Bill, Just a note to say thanks to you mate for your continued support it was a great trip. I would also like to bring to your leadership teams attention the exceptional support provided by Andy who did the tandem jump with a great friend of mine, Julie. To say Julie was petrified on the lead up to the big day would be a huge understatement. I had my doubts that she would actually exit on the day. I put her decision to exit firmly in the hands of Andy who excelled in calming her down, reassuring her whilst having a bit of a laugh along the way. The manner in which he guided her through what was to her a daunting task was oustanding to watch. He should be commended not only for his flight skills but also his raport and interaction with the customer. I was not surprised to find out he had a military background. Ramblers should be proud to have such fine men on their books as you and Andy, Bill.
“exceptional support”, “reassuring… whilst having a bit of a laugh” – by John D. – Julie’s Tandem
