DZ e-News #301 (23-29 Oct. 2017)

Achievements

Shelby Du Moulin – Completed AFF
Anton Williams – Completed AFF
Darren Hoehe – Completed AFF
Tina Spence – Certificate A
Jackson Brockwell – Certificate A
Clinton Deland – Certificate B

This week’s Newsletter starts on Tuesday 24th October. Actually Shelby Du Moulin was here yesterday for the 1st Jump Course and did Stages 1, 2, & 3 of her 20 Jump Package today.

Jessica Watts dropped by for a tandem.

Attila Szvetko did Stage 5 & 6 of his AFF Course.

There was also a bunch of funjumpers here so we managed a few Caravan loads as well as 8 Cessna 182 loads.

On Wednesday we sent Darren to do a “Jump 4 Joy” Demo in Toowoomba with Glen Hanssen in tandem. (Click here to read the article: “Toowoomba Teacher’s incredible 6500ft Skydive Jump”, The Chronicle – including video footage!)

Steven Lindley also did a tandem.

Students Anton Williams did Stages 3 & 4 of his AFF Course, Melissa Dempsey did Stage 4, Shelby Du Moulin did Stages 4 & 5 and Attila did Stage 6. Wow! And along with the same group of experienced jumpers here we managed a heap of loads in the 182 and a couple out of the Caravan again.

Thursday was a bit slower, we only did a couple of loads but both were from the Caravan.  Our new jumpers all kept at it. Darren Hoehne did Stage 2 of his AFF Course, Connor Klein did Stage 3, Anton Williams did Stages 5 & 6, and Shelby did Stages 6 & 7.

On Funtastic Friday we had more fun jumpers arrive but it was a bit slow due to the conditions. We got a couple of big loads away. Student Darren Hoehne did Stages 3 & 4 of his AFF Course and Anton Williams did Stage 7.

The Sausage Sizzle went down well. So did the fooze!

Saturday was verging on huge. There were over 50 funnies here. Dave Girvin was organising Star Crests and Emily Hatfield was also helping out with all girl Star Crests!!

There were lots of tandems here. Ryu Okada, Nicholas Aird, Michael Beil, Ashley Moore, Bern O’Connell, and Paul & Shayne Parsons celebrating Shayne’s 13th Birthday!  Happy Birthday Shayne!!!  Check the photos below!

Student Lyle Douglas did Static Line Stages 2 & 3, James Gentle did Stages 2, 3 & 4 of his AFF Course, Darren Hoehne did Stages 5, 6 & 7, Anton Williams did Stages 7 & 8. Shelby Du Moulin did Stages 8 & 9 – completing her AFF, congratulations!

The pace continued on Sunday but not quite as fast as yesterday. The Star Crest jumps were still happening.

Lyle Douglas did Stage 1 conventional of his AFF Course, and he did real well!

James Gentle did Stages 5, 6 & 7.

Darren Hoehne did Stages 8 & 9 and Anton Williams Stage 9 – both completing their AFF Courses. Well done fellas!

It was a great week. The weather wasn’t always perfect but people got their jumps in. C-17 jumps coming up this coming Saturday. I’m nervous already!

See ya!

Macca and the Ramblers Team.