DZ Round-up #16

Hello and welcome again to Newsletter 16, our last one for 2011. It’s a beauty, lots of photos, hope you enjoy it.

Well, picking up from Friday the 9th, the dz was still wet. 

  
Belgy’s splashdown - Photos by Louis
 

Still, we had two new First Jumpers back after doing the course earlier but who got weathered out. Chris Demaine and Tony Fox...   

Tony Fox - AFF Stage 3 with Moci - Photo by Phil Kemper
 

…did Stages 1, 2, 3, and 4!! We also had another 3 First Jumpers, Shirley Nicholson & Daniel Turner-Smith do AFF 1 and Daniel Light do his first Static Line jump.

Danny Light 1st Static Line jump - Photo by Wade
 

Plus Adrian Van Trier did his stage 9. Congratulations!

Adrian Van Trier - Photo by Belgy
 

Plus Julie Wills did 3 jumps and earned her A License. What a Friday! Plus Alan Wills was here, of course, along with Jackson Montgomery,

Jackson Montgomery - B-Rel 3 / 4 - Photo by Phil Kemper
 

Joel Martin, Naomi Adam, Brett Ogden, Gordon Baker, Brody and Dave Bleakley. All our regular instructors were kept busy! And our other staff!

GO the workers ! Linda on the way to a bit of dz rolling!

Saturday was a bit light on due to iffy weather. It was ok for static line jumping though and Daniel did two more. Tony and Chris also managed to get in stages 5&6.

Chris Demaine - Stage 6 - Photo by Wade
 

Elizabeth did our only tandem. John Bucknel, Jackson, Kyle and Brett Ogden kept at it but that was about it.  ....Except for Louis and Dave Bleakley doing an off-dz down-plane and S.A.T. Dave ended up in hospital with a busted leg! 

Sunday was a bit better. Dan Light did another 4 jumps including his first freefall – yahoo! And Tony and Chris did stages 7, 8 & 9...

Tony Fox - Stage 9 - Photo by Louis
 

Chris - Stage 7 - Photo by Belgy

– yahoo again! Michelle Hyde was back and so was David Schuttermaier with his brand new gear! Andy Rose and Veronica Cawood did their static line FJC and Andy got 2 in.

Licensed jumpers included Simon Fox, Christine Clarke, Kyle, Chloe O’Brien, Mat Blaiklock, Ollie Hamalainen, Rob Burke and Brett. 

Monday was a 182 day but Chris and Tony were on all 3 loads. We got Homer going Tuesday and Tony and Chris we again on all 4 loads.

Stefan Klapper...

Stefan - tandem with Moci - Photo by Phil

...did a tandem. Vedran Maslic continued through his Accreditation Package and Jackson, Steve Wainberg, Martin Klappem and Brett filled the loads.

Wednesday was much the same...

Tony Fox front loops out the door - Photo by Macca
 

Tony and Chris finished their 20 jump package...

Chris - Jump no.10 - Photo by Louis
 

and qualified for their A License and Vedran soldiered on, and Marco Bimmerlein from Russia did his 1st jump of his Addiction package. (He’s still here as I write this!)

Marco - Stage 6 - Photo by Belgy

Jason and Cheryl Curtis did a tandem. Ryan Dunstan...

Ryan exits - Photo by Macca

and Simon Fox...

  
Simon headdown & Simon sits - Photos by Macca
 

…paid a visit and Brody and Brett jumped. 

Brett Ogden exit - Photo by Macca

On Thursday Monty Pierce did his second static line jump, Marco did his second AFF jump and Peter Leaviss was back to continue on doing stage 5. Luke Smith rocked up for a jump but once again the weather was against us a bit. Friday was better. We did 4 Homer loads and 3 x 182 loads. Marco did stages 3,4&5. Andy Rose did his first freefall and Peter Leaviss did stages 6&7, Brett was still at it and Rebecca did a jump! And Jack Smith did a tandem.

Last weekend was pretty good. On Saturday Marco, Peter and Adrian Cox continued on with their training jumps...

Adrian Cox - B-Rel - Photo by Wade

We had 6 tandems and 16 fun jumpers all made up the six loads we did. It was good to see and jump with Tristan Birch...

  
Macca head down - Photos by Tristan
 

and Little Ben Fuller, thanks men. Adrian Bramwell got stuck into his B-Rels and had a ball. Dion was back along with Sam Golds, Clay, Mat Coles, Ollie, Brett (he’s been jumping everyday!), Martin McKenzie, Chloe, Ben Wotton and Marty Bowd. Phil and Louis did a freefly. 

Louis and Phil - Photo by Tristan

Ben and Riss arrived in time for the pub and left Sunday morning, staunch dz’ers they are! 

Camp fire - Photo by Ben

Sunday was much the same but bigger. We did 8 tandems including Tracy and John Gallacher who did two each! Peter and Marco got their stage 9’s done...

Peter Lieviss - Stage 9 exit - Photo by Wade

…and Issac Goodland did stage 3. Christine Clarke was back and jumped her brand new gear, and landed off-drops!! Peter Flannagan, MT and Ben Sirasch did 3 jumps, Tristan, Greg White and Doug Pender did 5, and another bunch of regular jumpers all had a leap or two.

Monday was good. Only 3 loads from Homer but we had students Marco, Mathew Micallaf and Peter Leaviss get stuck into it.

Peter Leaviss - backloop exit jump no.10 - Photo by Wade

Jeff Bradtke was on all 3 loads as was Ben Sirasch and Tristan, and father Chris Collier and sons Nick and Ryan did a tandem – well done!

Tuesday was a beauty! I was away all day but we did 2 loads from Homer and 4 x 182 loads. We had loads of students including local Glen Miller doing 2 statics and his first freefall, Mat Micallaf did Stages 7, 8 & 9,

Mat Micallaf - Stage 7 - Photo by Belgy

Marco, Jeff Bradtke, James White and Peter carried on, Andy Rose continued his Static Line course and father John and son Tim Thorogood did Stages 4 & 5 respectively. Steve Fitchett did a few jumps with Tim Lemch and Brody couldn’t stay on the ground. All our instructors – Belgy, Wade, Louis, Phil and Moci  - were kept busy,...

Wade exit - Photo by Wade!!

…and then they went to the cricket to watch Warney spin his balls. Wednesday, today was another compact little beauty. We did 4 Homer loads. John and Tim Thorogood did another AFF stage each. 

Tim Thorogood - Stage 6 - Photo by Louis
 

John Thorogood - Stage 5 - Photo by Belgy

Marco did a couple. Jimmy James brought Wayne Beavis along for some B-Rels (4).

Wayne Beavis doing B-Rels - Photos by Jimmy James
 

Tim Leitch, Joel Martin and John Bucknell also did 4 jumps. Brody a I did one too. I had a beauty, I solo-atmoed towards a high, puffy cloud, opened at 8 grand just above it and soared down and through the edges of it!

And on that high note;
Merry Christmas

Magpies - it's the Silly Season at the DZ!

...from me and all the Ramblers Team
living here at the Toogoolawah DZ (the Lifers!).

Belgie
Wade
Moci
Rodney
Margaret and Egon
Phil
Roger and Linda
John McMahon
Louis
Kevie and Margaret
Al White
Maureen
Ali
Bruce
Brody
Rebecca (Retired!)
John McEvoy  

See ya 
....in the New Year.

Macca

Quick Links

Contact Ramblers

Call the Drop Zone on: 07 5423 1159

or email us.

Like us on Facebook!

Join us on Twitter!

Discover Feedback

Let us know your thoughts!

e-News Join up!

Meet the Team!

Tandem Skydiving

Book a Tandem Skydive!

Learn to Skydive!

Freecall
1800 999 014
for a FREE DVD!

Become a qualified Skydiver!

Book your Course

What's Next?

Sport Skydiving

Learning Curve Camps

Team Training

See the action!

Video Gallery

Ramblers
on YouTube

Famous For Fun!

Ramblers in the media!

Read about Skysisters in the Media!

Female Skydiving Convention

Ramblers Events

Check out our
Calendar of events
for upcoming action!

Learning Curve Camps 2012

January 23rd-27th
April 23rd-27th
July 2nd-6th
September 24th-28th
December 3rd-7th

Xmas Feelgood Boogie

26th Dec. 2011
- 1st Jan. 2012

Post Equinox Boogie 

20th - 28th October 2012 - Music & Skydiving for 9 days!

Discover...