Toogs DZ e-News #417 (13-19 January 2020)

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

ACHIEVEMENTS

Luke Mears – Completed AFF
Chris Anderson – Completed AFF & Certificate A
Sean Walker – Completed AFF & Certificate A
Rosie Dodgson – B Licence
Zacky – New Canopy

Monday 13th – New start to the skydiving week Yaa-hoo. New students for today were Chris Anderson and Sean Walker. Both boys completing Stage 1 of the AFF Course this afternoon. Local skydivers kept the plane loads full.

Tuesday 14th – Weather man was wrong again. A beautiful day for skydiving. Students Chris Anderson and Sean Walker smashed out Stages 2, 3 & 4 of their AFF Courses whilst Luke Mears completed Stage 9 – completing his AFF! Congratulations. 4 Caravan loads for the day, 22 skydivers all happy.

Sean AFF Stage 4 with Robin – Photos by Adrian

Wednesday 15th – So much for that rain that was forecasted, not a drop fell as it all missed the DZ. The new students were at it again, Sean Walker completed Stages 5 & 6 of his AFF Course whilst Chris Anderson had a huge day completing Stages 5, 6, 7 & 8 of his AFF course.

Thursday 16th – New student for today was Edward Keating. Ed completed his theory with instructor Adrian and Robbie took him for Stage 1 of his AFF Course. Sean Walker did Stages 7 & 8, and Chris Anderson competed Stage 9 – completing his AFF! Luke Mears started his B-Rel training table with Oli. Bring on Funtastic Friday.

Sean AFF Stage 8 – tracking for days – Photos by Adrian

Friday 17th – Blue skies and light winds…what more could you want. Edward Keating completed Stages 2 & 3 of his AFF Course with instructors Robbie and Robin. Jason Schmidt returned and did Stage 4 with Adrian and Oli. Sean Walker completed Stage 9 – completing his AFF! Adrian took Shelby for a Tandem skydive, check out the epic photo below. 23 skydiver were here today, which filled the plane loads nicely.

Adrian and Shelby tandem exit on Sigma conversion

Adrian completing his Sigma conversion with Shelby as passenger – Photos by Adrian

Saturday 18th – Challenging weather conditions for today, but we still managed to get a few loads in-between the rain. Tandems today were Abigayl Schultz and Richard Moore, congrats to both of you. Jason Schmidt completed Stage 4 of his AFF Course. MS Exposed training camp was on, good turn out and great practice jump where had.

Nude practice jump – MS Exposed – Photos by Robbie

Zak, Minkley, Coops Head Up – Photo Coops

Sunday 19th – Once again it was challenging weather conditions, we still got 7 loads up. Tandems for today were Richard Burns and Jayden Petzler – congrats. Luke Mears completed B-Rel 2 and 3. Jasmine completed B-Rel 5 . MS Exposed training camp was in full swing all doing 4 jumps each. Kristina and Jasmine jumped the 182 for their FIRST time…..ya’ll know what that means.