Toogs DZ e-News #363 (31 Dec. 2018 – 6 Jan. 2019)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Taine Davidson – Completed AFF
Byron Birch – Completed AFF
Matt Ranken – Completed AFF
Sian Almond – Completed AFF
Terry Frey – Completed AFF
Tim Mingay – Completed AFF

Giovanni Pitzalis – Certificate A
Andre Dantos dos Santos – Certificate A
Heath Bamford – Certificate B
Masayuki Onishi – Certificate B
Darren Bundy – Certificate C

Angus Robertson – Head Up & Head Down Freefly Crests
Simon Backman – Head Up Freefly Crest
Jamie Lindsay – First jump in 5 years!
Steven Moppet – First jump in 8 years!
Ryan Baradas – First jump in 10 years!
Mick Tilly – 500 hrs
Olli Dixon – First jump in 2019.
Aaron Cost – Finished 1st Log Book.

Monday 31st December. We had a few new tandem jumpers here, Denise Kaitu, Kelsie & Jackson Mahon, Tanna Kelleher, Loche Scullion, and Claire Stephens.  Also, Matt Ranken did AFF Stages 7 & 8 and Taine Davidson did Stages 8 & 9 – completing his AFF! It was a great day, lots of party people here and a wedding proposal on the DZ, er, above the DZ! And the party started!

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Tuesday 1st January 2019. Happy New Year!  How fast did 2108 travel! The DZ was closed for the day, and the party continued – until about 3.00 pm, then….not a sole to be seen!

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It was back to normal by Wednesday. Two new tandem jumpers kicked off our New year; Western Moss and Charlotte Noonan took to the skies.  Joel Pearson was here for Stage 3 of his AFF Course. David Pearson and Jared Moore both did Stages 3 & 4 of their Course. Ron Woonan did Stage 4, Sian Almond did Stages 6 & 7, and Byron Birch and Matt Ranken both did Stage 9 – completing their AFF! Fun jumpers emerged for a few loads. What a great start to the year.

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Thursday and again we had more new tandems arrive, Brett Craig and Jules Sarta took to the skies.  Lots of student were also here. Joel Pearson did Stages 4, 5, & 6, David Pearson and Ron Noonan did Stage 5, Jared Moore did Stages 5 & 6, and Sian Almond did Stages 8 & 9 – completing her AFF! Great stuff.

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On Friday Connor Vennard arrived for a tandem, and did two! Plus Terry Frey did Stages 7, 8 & 9 – completing his AFF! Other novices, B-Rels and experienced skydivers filled the loads.

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It was a bit of a quiet weekend, still on Saturday two more tandem jumpers, Nathan Barradas and Tim Keiler were here for their big leap. Bevan Walsh got stuck into it & did AFF Stages 2, 3 & 4. Tim Mingay completed his AFF with Stage 9, well done! The regular jump crew were here along with a few new faces. Plus Costa had a crew of swoopers here utilising the Cessna 182 for hop and pops.

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Sunday was a crusie day. A few of our regular staff actually had a day off. Not Bevan Walsh though, Bevan did AFF 5, 6 & 7. Or the swoopers. Or the novices. Or the regulars and other fun jumpers! It was a great weekend start to 2019.

See ya! And Happy New Year from all of us here at the Drop Zone.

Macca & Team Ramblers.

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