Toogs DZ e-News #381 (6-12 May 2019)

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

ACHIEVEMENTS

Harrison Carrodus – Completed AFF
Todd Pickering – Completed AFF
Michael Douglas – Completed AFF
Fred Rae – Certificate A
Cory Cassell – 100th Jump
Kim Doun – 1000th Jump

Monday 6th. A wonderful start to the week, blues skies are here. Tandems for the day were Darren Sippel, Kelli Jones and Gary Jones, who all loved their skydives. Student Michael Douglas continued through his AFF Stages 7 & 8, Harrison Carrodus did Stages 8 & 9, and Todd Pickering did Stage 9 – completing their AFF! Well done boys. Tayia Merrett continued towards her accuracy jumps. The Koreans were at it again, they all did 7 jumps each. There were 11 loads and 48 jumpers.

Gary in tandem with Adrian – Photo Shelby

Tuesday. The weather was beautiful today. The Tandem for today was Barry Gregory. Student Michael Douglas completed his Stage 9 – competing his AFF Course. Once again the Korean boys were jumping today. 7 caravan loads for today.

Hop n Pops for dayz with Ty sending it – Photos by Drewy

Wednesday. Another 7 fantastic loads went up today, the weather was amazing light winds and blue skies. Cory Cassell, Eddie Ljungdahl, Erik Nadorp, Ross Kowald, Alex Lay, Shelby and Adrian kept the plane turning all day.

Shelby freeflying and head up – Photos by Adrian

Adrian and Shelby tracking – Photo Shelby

Erik playing footsies with Adrian – Photo Adrian

Cory B-Rel 6 with Ollie and Eddie freeflying his slot 8

Thursday. The skies are blue again. Student Sky completed his B-Rel stage 1 with Olli. Janelle completed B-Rel 6 with the help of Darren. There were 7 loads and 15 jumpers. Check out the sunset photo taken by Karen.

Friday. New students for today were Navinn Nava and Ailin Shao whom completed Stage 1 of their AFF Courses. The usual crew were here today keeping the plane in the air all day. Mick Douglas worked towards his accuracy jumps. Jaeson Park and his crew also helped fill the plane. There were 7 loads and 27 jumpers.

Choi Suk Il, Woo Byung Hun, Youn Se Cho, Macca, Jaeson and Shangchul – Photo Karen

On Saturday students Marcarla Stiler and James Clippingdale did Stage 1 of their AFF Courses. The westerly winds picked up today, only experienced jumpers took to the skies. There were 5 loads and 31 jumpers.

James TAF Stage 1 with Darren – Photos by Oli M

Sunday. Today we had much better weather. Tandems were Kelly Burow and Christine Knappstein. Gregg Thomas did Stage 1 of his AFF Course and Ailin Shao powered through her Stages 2, 3 & 4. Mick Douglas was at it again working on his accuracy landings. There were 8 loads and 33 jumpers.