Toogs DZ e-News #330 (14-20 May 2018)

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Achievements

Olli Dixon – First AFF Instructor Jump
Holly Godwin – First AFF Instructor Jump
Rangry Jas – First AFF Instructor Jump

It’s Monday the 14th and it’s Newsletter-time!! While Monday was pretty quiet, Cameron Luck and Emmanuel Gobert came out to Toogs to do their First-Jump-Course on Tuesday! After a couple hours of theory they did Stage 1 of their AFF Courses in the afternoon!

Emmanuel TAF Stage 1

The two boys came back on Wednesday and did Stages 2 & 3 of their AFF Courses. Our instructor Olli did his first AFF jump that day, well done, good on you mate!!

Cameron about to jump solo for the first time
Olli – First jump as an instructor – Yee Ha – Photos by Sara
Emmanuel AFF Stage 3 with Sara – Photo Adrian
Cameron AFF Stage 3 with Adrian – Photo Olli

On Thursday half a dozen boys from the Sunshine Coast came out to do some fun jumping! They kept the 182 going all day!

Friday Stephen Roberts found his way to Toogoolawah to do Stages 7 & 8 of his AFF Course, Luke was here to smash out some B-Rels and Ayla came back to the Drop Zone after having a little break from skydiving! On top of that there were a few fun jumpers here mostly doing wingsuit-jumps!

Steve AFF Stage 7 – happy face – Photo Adrian
Steve deploying AFF Stage 8
Luke B-Rel 1.1 – Photos by Olli
Luke B-Rel 2 – Photo Adrian
Aila – check jump – Photo Olli

On Saturday Tess & Christian Pabst, Emma Flynn, Charlotte Thistlethwaite, Jacob & Nicholas Sinn and Rebecca Gray did a Tandem-jump here at Ramblers, yeeeew!

Jacob & Adrian exiting, and lovin’ freefall – Photos by Alex
Nick & Doyley in freefall – Photo Doyley
Bec & Sara in freefall

Meanwhile Students Emma Keegan, Harold Davies, Skye Marsh & Tyler Kluza were sitting in the classroom doing their First-Jump-Course to do their Stage 1 of the AFF Course in the afternoon!

Emma TAF Stage 1
Skye TAF Stage 1 – Photo Sara
Tyler in tandem with Scotty on TAF Stage 1 – Photos by Sara

Charles Grevell came back and did Stage 4, nice work!

Charles AFF Stage 4

And of course there were many of the regular Toogs-jumpers here to do some fun jumps!

Luke Head Up training– Photos by Doyley
Ryan refresher with Ollie – Photo Adrian

Cynthia Hickson did a Tandem on Sunday.

Cynthia & Ben in freefall – Photo Alex

And all the students from Saturday Skye Marsh, Emma Keegan, Tyler Kluza & Harold Davies were still around and kept our instructors busy all day! Well done guys!
Also our new instructors Holly and Rangry got to do their first AFF jumps!!! Congratulations!!

Skye – AFF Stage 2 with Rangry – Photo Adrian
Emma AFF Stage 2
Holly – First AFF Instructor jump with Emma AFF Stage 2 – Photos by Sara
Ryan refresher
Ryan AFF Stage 2 – Photos by Doyley
Harry AFF Stage 2
Tyler AFF Stage 3 – Photos by Olli
Tyler AFF Stage 3 – Photo Doyley
Tyler with Adrian – AFF Stage 4 – Photo Doyley

See ya!
Macca & Team Ramblers.

Visitor Book Comments

N. Sinn  –  Juileue!
Jacob Sinn – Adrian is awesome.  Mint.
Rebecca Gray – Unreal! Amazin’ instructors!!
Cynthia Hickson – Totally  awesome – would do again.

Went with them today for my first ever skydiving. It was amazing, exhilarating and exciting. Don't be scared, there's nothing terrifying about it. Once you are out of the plane, it feels like you're flying.

“amazing, exhilarating and exciting” – by Jeremy So

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