Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #529 (19-25 Sept. 2022)

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Rawiri – Completed AFF
Jack – Completed AFF
John-Rima – Completed AFF
Taylor – Completed AFF
Stephanie – Completed AFF
Alfred – Completed AFF

Hannah – 100th Jump
Keegan – 100th Jump
 Laura – D License

Monday 19th September was a great day of skydiving to kick off the week. There were 35 fun jumpers here and 7 loads were done with 2 B-Rel Coach jumps Mitch and Luke.

Tandems today were Jennifer, Nicholas and Oliver.

New students Jamie, Zac and Lachlan did TAFF Stage 1. Students Noel did AFF Stages 2 & 3, Jack did Stages 3 & 4, Colin Stage 4, John-Rima Stages 4 & 5. Stephanie, Jaimie, Taylor & Lucas did Stages 5 & 6, and Rawiri Stage 6 of their AFF Courses.

John-Rima (Rowdy) AFF Stage 6 – doing some turns – photo Adrian

Then on Tuesday there were 34 jumpers here and 6 loads were done with 2 B-Rel Coach jumps – Keren and Jason.

Jamie, Zac, Alfred, & Lachlan did AFF Stages 2 & 3, Sherry did Stages 4 & 5, Jack Stages 5 & 6, John-Rima Stages 6, 7 & 8, and Rawiri, Lucas, Jaimie, Taylor & Stephanie did Stages 7 & 8.

Zac all smiles after landing on AFF Stage 2

Alfred ready for AFF Stage 2 – photos by Sara

John AFF Stage 7 – backflips – photos by Adrian

Jaimie AFF Stage 8 sunset – photo Adrian

Wednesday was rained out.

Thursday 1 load was done with 6 jumpers. Stephanie did Stage 9 – completing her AFF Course. Congratulations!

Friday 6 loads were done with 36 jumpers and 3 B-Rel Coach jumps – Aaron, Peter and Jesse.

AFF students Jack did Stage 2, James – Stage 4, Noel – Stages 4 & 5, Alfred – Stages 4, 5, 6 & 7, Jack B – Stages 7, 8 & 9; & John-Rima (Rowdy) and Rawiri did Stage 9 – completing their AFF Courses. Congratulations!

Alfred AFF Stage 5 – flying by himself for the first time

Alfred AFF Stage 7 – backflips – photo by Adrian

On Saturday 24th September we had 69 fun jumpers completed 15 loads, with 11 B-Rel Coach jumps by Conan, Anna, Taylor, Jaimie, Sid, Lee, Brendan, Marcela, Rawiri and Daniel, as well as Mikey, Aaron B, and Aaron McC.

Our Tandems today were Mackenzie, Lachlan, John and Daniel.

New students Reece, Julia, Nathan & Kai did TAFF Stage 1, and Alfred did AFF Stages 8 & 9 – completing his AFF Course. Congratulations!

Alfred AFF Stage 9 – congrats! – photos by Sara

Rawiri B-Rel 1 – flying well – photo Sara

Jaimie B-Rel 1 – doing great – photo Sara

Mikey B-Rel 5 – outside – photos by Skydive Ramblers

Aaron McC – final docks – photos by Charmaine

Sid and Michael going for the second revolution – photos by Susie

On Sunday 25th there were 83 jumpers here and 16 loads were done with 6 B-Rel Coach jumps – Jye, Conan, Kyleigh, Peter, Christer, & Jade.

Our Tandems today were Ronald Andies, Stefanya, Jacob, Andrew, Ekaterina, Holly, Moss, Eliza, Kaitlyn, Graham, Sebastian, Julian and Morgan.

Students Kai did AFF Stages 2 & 3, Reece, Nathan & Julia did AFF Stages 2, 3 & 4, and Kayla did AFF Stages 6 & 7 of their AFF Courses.