Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #497 (3-9 Jan. 2022)

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

 Patrick Rynan – Completed AFF
 Achraf Dreif Bennany – Completed AFF


Monday 3rd January 2022. Today was still a holiday and there were 52 jumpers still here! More keen Tandems came along. Brothers David & Robert Lentile, Nicholas Seibel and Bahareh Shahrestanaki all made a leap.

New AFF students Billy Reynolds and David Gaul did Stage 1. Joseph Gipp and Ethan Stamper did AFF  Stage 2, Hossein (Hamed) Mehrgoo did Stages 3 & 4, Luke Munroe did Stage 5, and Achraf Dreif Bennany did Stages 7 & 8. And congratulations to Patrick Rynan who did Stage 9 – completing his AFF Course.  Along with a few coach jumps happening there was also a lot of fun jumping going on.

Nicholas having a blast – Photo by Sara
Joe ready for AFF Stage 2 – Photo by Sara
Ethan AFF Stage 2 – Photo JohnH
Hossein AFF Stage 4 – Photo Sara
Luke AFF Stage 5 repeat – Photo JohnH
Ach jumping into AFF Stage 7 – Photo Robin
Dean B-Rel Stage 5 – Photo JohnH

On Tuesday there was a fair bit of student activity happening. David Gaul and Billy Reynolds did Stage 2, Joseph Gipp and Ethan Stamper did Stage 3, Hossein (Hamed) Mehrgoo did Stage 5 of their AFF Courses. Shane Avis McAnally did a solo. There were 20 fun jumpers and a few coaching jumps got done.

David ready for AFF Stage 2
Ethan doing great AFF Stage 3 – Photos by Sara
Jo doing some turns on AFF Stage 3 – Photo Adrian
Hamed AFF Stage 5 freefall
Hamed AFF 5 opening
Yash AFF Stage 4 – Photos by JohnH

Wednesday – Saturday – Ex- cyclone SETH visited and hung around for a few days. No Skydiving !! The Ramblers Rapids were in full flow and Liam and Dom (crazy pilots) were wake-boarding instead of flying!

Dom the pilot wakeboarding the Ramblers Rapids – Photos by Skydive Ramblers

Sunday was better weather-wise, but only just! Showers and clouds restricted activities a bit but we still got a few sorties done (but not enough!). Our two Tandems for the day were Kim Dinh and Scott Ward. Struan Roxborourgh, Thomas Rixon  & Tredoux Pretorius started their training all did Stage 1. Hossein (Hamed) Mehrgoo did Stages 5 & 6 and Yash Dosanjh did a solo. Achraf Dreif Bennany did Stage 9 – completing his AFF Course, another Congratulations and a great way to end the wet week.

Kim tandem exit
Struan TAFF 1 Alticheck – Photos by Adrian
Thomas TAFF Stage 1
Tredoux TAFF Stage 1 – Photos by Sara
Hamed AFF 5 repeat
Hamed AFF Stage 6 – Photos by JohnH

See ya,

Macca and Team Ramblers.


Reviews & Visitor Book Comments

 Michael Brown: “Great place to go, felt very safe, good vibe, lovely instructors overall amazing experience. If you wanna jump out of a plane this is the place to go …also you pass Fernvale bakery on the way home so its a win win.”

 Robert Lentile: “What a blast!  I waited 71 yrs to do that.  Waited half my life.”

 David Lentile: “Thank you so much!  An awesome experience.”

 Kim Dinh: “I’ve waited for 22 years for this moment. It was bought for me as a birthday present.  Best present EVER.  UNBELIEVABLE!  AMAZING EXPERIENCE.  Thanks to staff!”

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An absolute Blast. Totally exhilarating. Sarah, my diving buddy was totally professional and competent. She rehearsed my moves. Gave me an opportunity to bail (which was never going to happen but would have been appreciated by a possible nervous type), was a very good tourist guide on the climb out so fabulous experience all round.
Thanks to everyone there.
Cheers, Carol.

Carol Browne

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