Heads Up
Are you still hiring parachute equipment? Do you know that if you bring a friend to do a Tandem you will be rewarded with FREE GEAR HIRE on your next jump! All you have to pay for is the re-pack. If your friend does an AFF package you get a FREE JUMP, FREE GEAR HIRE and a FREE RE-PACK! 👉 Contact the Drop Zone office for details BEFORE your friend’s jump and save a lot of dollar$ off your jump bill!
And if you have finished your training and you are looking for someone to jump with, let manifest know and they will put you in contact with our Load Energiser.
Achievements & Congratulations
⭐️ Hunter – 500th jump
⭐️ Hoff – Star Crest
Drop Zone Action
New week, new weather patterns. Not the best start to the week for the Learning Curve Camp. Day one saw us get 2-3 jumps before those big westerly winds kicked into gear. The winds were here to stay for the week. We did manage to get 1-2 jumps every day. Majority of the day we used wisely and ran several LCC seminars: 4way flat, load organiser, monthly maintenance, weather patterns, jump run, aircraft emergencies, buddy checks, FF basics, landing patterns, incident revision.
The weekend forecast lied and said it was beautiful conditions but that was proved wrong when the 30knt winds kicked in. But we preserved and waited it out and got a jump in at the end of the day. Next week looks great for skydiving, if you believe the forecast. Fingers crossed.
Students Robert and Morgan returned. And we welcomed our new AFF students Cameron and Andrew. B-Rel Coach jumps were done by Bailey and Jaide.
Tandem jumps were done by Joseph, Isabella, Abby, Brenda, Ciara, Billy and Jarrod. Congratulations!
Belly Bash
Well, the weather certainly wan’t kind to us for Belly Bash on Saturday, with 30kt gusts hammering us by late morning! But this did not stop us bracing the cold and getting our knees in the breeze on the first load! We planned and beautifully executed a 7-way carving race, where we took turns to carve in a circuit around our opposing group!! It was a one-jump-wonder, but muchos fun was had by all!
Many thanks to all of you for ignoring the forecast and coming out regardless – and big shout-out to Trav for expertly taking-on organising duties in Dawn’s absence!
As ever, many thanks to our sponsors – Skydive Ramblers, TSC, SQPC and Mee Loft, and our awesome camera fliers Michael Young and Camilla Rokke!
Attendees: Chris Dodds, Trav McC., Marin K., Adrian B., Aaron R., Sean L., Luke M., Michael Y., Camilla R., Greg M., MilleS., Farrell McK., Fred O., Holly A., and Rab McC.
DZ Flashback – Blast From The Past
Click on the album below for historical photos.
And visit our Ramblers history webpage for more info…
