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Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #515 (13-19 June 2022)
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
- Skydive Ramblers
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Don B – Completed AFF
Jade C – Completed AFF
Kye R – Completed AFF
Scott R – Completed AFF
Mikey – A-Certificate
Lachlan J – First wingsuit
Adrian C – B-Rels and 50 Jumps
Cambo – 200th Jump
Kylie D – 400th Jump
Monday 13th June – June Learning Curve Camp has come around again, sixteen skydivers were ready to go and the weather was perfect! Congratulations Don B who did Stages 8 & 9 – completing his AFF Course. We did 6 loads altogether with 30 jumpers here and 15 B-Rel Coach jumps done by Glenn M, Nicolas D, Dylan S, Aaron G, Craig C & Adrian C. As per usual Harvey Hutchinson videoed the landings and the nightly debrief was off to a good start.
On Tuesday the weather was still perfect. We did 7 loads today and 24 people did them, including Wade Y-T did Stages 3 & 4 of his AFF Course. Tish organised some successful Star Crest loads. People were getting organised and getting their jumps done. And about midday some big machines arrived and started digging the swoop pond hole! Yahoo!
Swoop Pond prep!
Wednesday started with fog all morning. When the fog lifted, about midday, 24 Learning Curve Campers got stuck into it and 4 loads were done. More Star Crests and some B-Rels were successfully achieved. And Jade C did Stage 9 – completing her AFF Course. Congratulations Jade!
On Thursday it was another foggy start to the day. But when it lifted. Sara’s Canopy Course was underway. 9 loads were done and 41 jumpers did them including Dylan S, Luke I, Mark M, Savannah N and Kahl S who all did some B-Rel Coach jumps.
And the Swoop Pond hole was completed. Now we have to fill up the hole with water!
Friday was special. It was the last day of the Learning Curve Camp and the weather was back to perfect. More people arrived. There were 54 jumpers here and 11 loads done including one load of night jumps with 3 Tandems and six fun jumpers on board. Nick W, Natalie W and Dylan L did the night Tandems. Travis B did Stages 6, 7 & 8, and Kye R did Stages 8 & 9 – completing his AFF Course, another Congratulations! Luke I and Cye K did B-Rel Coach jumps. Cheers to Harvey for all the landing videos.
Saturday was another beauty although the winds were a bit strong for our students in the middle of the day. We did 14 loads altogether with 77 jumpers here. Tandems for today were Shane B and Georgia S.
Lots of students did get stuck into it. Jesse McJ did Stage 2, Daniel K did Stages 2 & 3, Harley P did Stage 3, Kennedy N did Stages 4 & 5, Adam W did Stages 5, 6 & 7, Sitjian L (Sid) did Stage 6, Nanci Danielle (Danni) G did Stage 7, and Matthew K did Stage 8 of his AFF Course. It was Tish’s birthday and Saturday night was party night!
Sunday was beautiful weather again, but it was a bit slower to get started. Our students were keen. Jesse McJ did Stages 3, 4 & 5, Daniel K did Stages 4, 5 & 6, Yash K did Stages 5, 6 & 7, and Nanci Danielle G did Stage 8, and Scott R did his Stage 9 – completing his AFF Course. Congratulations Scott! Intermediates Benjamin L and Chloe N did B-Rel Coach jumps. We did eight loads altogether with 54 jumpers here. What a week!
TSC Star Crests
“Thanks to Southeast Queensland Parachute Council for another successful weekend of Starcrests at Skydive Ramblers. Congratulations to Lee Huang and Adam Harmey for completing their crests and to Achraf Dreif and Matteo Pelonzi for partial completions!! And big hugs and appreciation for all jumpers who contributed one or more jumps to help our up and coming skydivers!
Look out for the upcoming starcrests 16 July x”
Emily Hatfield.
See ya,
Macca and Team Ramblers.
Reviews & Visitor Book Comments
Benjamin D. (Facebook post re: Sara‘s Canopy Course): “This course was a solid 10/10, thanks Sara and everyone! I learned so much!!!”
DZ Flashback – Blast From The Past
Visit our Ramblers history webpage for more info…
- June 25-26 – Canopy Course with Mossy
- June 25 – Belly Bash – Load Organising with Dawn & Chris
- August 15-19 – Learning Curve Camp (Full Moon 20th)
- August 15-19 – Aussie Bigways: Bigways Training Event
- October 10-14 – Learning Curve Camp (Full Moon 10th)
- November 7-11 – Aussie Bigways: Remembrance Day Bigways Event
- December – Learning Curve Camp 12-16 (No Full Moon)
Great experience, absolutely unforgettable, staff are all friendly and professional Making the whole experience easy, worry free and exhilarating. 100/10 experience worth visiting worth doing. : )
“easy, worry free and exhilarating” – by Kiara Kirby
