Jason Munster – Certificate A Ryan Hastings – Certificate A Harold Davies – Certificate A Phil Comyn – Head Up Freefly Crest Kristina Hicks – Cert D + Cert B Coach rating
Monday – Mossy was here taking Matt, Adrian, Dave, Potter and Luke through their Instructor B course. The 4 Korean jumpers kept the plane in the air all day with 7 loads. Yay!
Tuesday – More fun jumpers arrived and we managed to get 8 loads in the air. Nate continued with his currency jump and Cassandra was back in the air after having an 8 month break from the sport. James, Chris and Dan worked on their freeflying skills. Our resident packer Alex managed to get a fun jump too.
Wednesday – The Koreas were at it again, jumping hard for their last day in OZ, they also had a quick trip to the indoor pistol shooting range. The Dropzone farewelled the boys with dinner and drinks at our local pub.
Thanks for visiting our DZ to Sukil Choi, Jaeson Park, Yong Soo Park Shangchul You, Jeong Unju, Dae Ryuk Hicks, Jongha Kim, and Dou Kim. See you again soon!
Thursday – All the staff gathered together for Equinox 2018 planning. Things are looking awesome for this event scheduled for October 20th-28th, 2018. We got one load away early morning but then the westerly winds put an end to our jumping day.
Friday – Two Tandems for the day were Michael Cotton and Riley Lourigan. Congratulations to both of you for taking the ‘Leap’ with us.
Student Jason Munster completed Stages 2, 3 & 4 of his B-Rel jumps.
Everyone started turning up for the weekend, a lot of new and old faces were seen at the Dropzone today
Saturday – Alisha celebrated her 18th B’day in style with a skydive, she also had 7 friends and family jump too Jessica Chaplin, Zoe Cray-Graham, Emma Lennon, Kelly McNamara, Alisha Grieve, Charyn Chaplin & Kate Fisher. Family and friends stayed in our camping grounds and enjoyed there night. Other Tandems for that day were Kyal McAuliffe and Malachi Plum. Zehua Bai completed his Stage1. Student Oliver Morris did his first jump of his Addiction Package.
Mossy held his canopy course with everyone learning new skills under canopy and landing.
We had 8 teams register for the ‘4 Ways 4 Everyone’ competition, hosted by the South East Queensland Skydivers Club. First Place was Team 2 – Alex Cattaneo, Kerry Hook, Jason Schloss, Blake Dickson and Archie, congratulations!
For more amazing photography, check out Steve Fitch’s 4W4E1 Fitchimages Facebook album!
Sunday – Only one load today, the winter westerly winds picked up!
Ramblers flag jump at Red Thunder Airshow
Watt’s Bridge Memorial Airfield (25&26 May)
Photos by Scott P (missed in e-News #331)
For photos & video by Dave Brown, read our blog about this epic weekend:
Was anxious-as coming in to start my AFF course, but these guys truly put me at ease. Felt more like joining a members club than just buying a commercial course. Great atmosphere - encouraging staff - awesome experience.....Now I just gotta get back and complete the course!
“truly put me at ease” – by Gordon Price (AFF Course)