Kieran Hebron – Certificate A Ryan Newis – Certificate A Tayia Merrett – Certificate B Robin Spedding – AFF Instructor Rating Johnny Hamilton – AFF Instructor Rating Oli Morris – AFF Instructor Rating Smithy – Foot Angle Flossy – 1st Leading Headup Angle
Monday 23rd September – A slowish start to the skydiving week. Today we had Luke Tomkins and Alexis Aberdeen who completed a Tandem jump with instructors Darren and Sara. Justin Price and Cooper McClymount returned and did some fun jumps.
Luke’s tandem – Photo SaraAlexis’s jump – Photo Doyley
Tuesday 24th – Colin Gaudry dropped by for a Tandem with Adrian. The AFF instructor course was in full swing with Robin, Oli and Johnny all doing their practical lessons today.
Colin tandem exitColin tandem freefall – Photos by AdrianEddie AFF Stage 7 with Robin – Photo Marge
Wednesday 25th – Maria Rau come out to do a refresher after a 7year gap – welcome back. The new AFF instructors powered thru their AFF training. The local crew kept the plane full today. Nothing happened on Thursday.
Maria refresher jump 1Maria refresher jump 2 – Photos by SaraGladys AFF Stage 7 – Photo Irish
Thursday 26th – nothing happened.
Friday 27th – Benjamin Hoiberg came out for a Tandem with Darren. Chris Tennie did B-Rel 1 with Darren. It was a great day, lots of fun jumpers here. Only 5 loads for today, but they were fun loads.
Chris B-Rel 1Chris B-Rel 2 – Photos by Doyley
Saturday 28th – A beautiful start to the morning. We got a few loads in before the afternoon storms hit. The DZ is now looking very green. Chris was back in the air working towards B-Rel 3 with Darren. Brandon completed a refresher jump with Adrian.
Chris B-Rel 3Brandon refresher – Photos by Adrian
Sunday 29th – It was another great day. There were a few tandems today were Ben Sippel, Judy Groom, Michael Groom, Jason Schmidt, Abigail Schultz. New students Brad Fitzwater and Clinton Howard did Stage 1 of their AFF Courses, Jarrod Potter did Stages 6, 7 & 8 and Adam Young did a Refresher. Then we did a NIGHT Tandem load, straight after sunset. It was fantastic. Josh Gray and Jade Butterworth were the culprits! 12 funtastic loads flew today.
Ben’s tandemMichael Tan sun SaraCongratulations to Judi & Michael for their second Tandem with us! Photo by KarenJason tandem exitJason tandem freefallScotty chasing Jason’s tandem – Photos by AdrianBrad TAFF 1Clinton TAFF 1 – Photos by AndyBurke, Georgi caterpillarBurke, Georgi caterpillar track – Photos by JohnHDavid B-Rel 5 with help of QJarrod AFF Stage 6 – Photos by AdrianJarrod AFF Stage 7 with Jesse backloopJarrod AFF Stage 8 – Photos by Jesse
Two night visitors for night jumps – Photos by AliJosh and Andy night tandemJosh, Andy, Sara, Ty, Jade and Oli night jumpSara and Jade night tandemJade and JoshCharmaine, Jade and Josh – Photos by Ellen
Ramblers is a great club and a great drop zone. It was 39 years ago and it is now. I have just gone through the photos of my tandem jump with Darren and relived the whole exhilarating experience again - even my husband was impressed. Congratulations to Dave McEvoy for such a fantastic venue.