Ramblers Drop Zone Action ⭐️ e-News #556 (17-23 April 2023)

Thursday, April 27, 2023

 Bryce – A Certificate
 Aaron – Head-Up Crest
 
John – E Certificate

 
Steve Fitchett – 40 years of skydiving


Monday 17th April – 31 fun jumpers were still here and 5 loads done. AFF students Nathaniel did Stages 5 & 6 and Sebastian did Stages 5, 6 & 7.   Nanci Daniella did a B-Rel Coach jump.

Nathaniel AFF Stage 5
Nathaniel AFF Stage 6 – photos by Sara
Seb AFF Stage 5
Seb AFF Stage 6
Seb AFF Stage 7 – photos by OliM

On Tuesday the 10 fun jumpers got 2 loads done.


Wednesday 14 fun jumpers got 3 loads done. New student Lancelot did TAFF Stage 1.  Jayden (x 2) & Matthew did 3 B-Rel Coach jumps.

Lance TAFF Stage 1 – photo OliM
Jayden B-Rels – photo by Skydive Ramblers
Jayden B-Rels – photo by Skydive Ramblers

On Thursday 14 fun jumpers got 3 loads done. Lancelot did AFF Stage 2 & Renee did AFF Stage 5.  Jayden did 2 B-Rel Coach jumps.

Lance ready for AFF stage 2
Renee AFF Stage 5 – photos by Sara
Jayden B-Rel 4 – photo Skydive Ramblers

Friday was too windy to jump.


Saturday there were 28 fun jumpers and 3 loads done. Our Tandem today was done by Don. New AFF students Hannah did Stage 1!  Bryce did a B-Rel Coach jump.

Don tandem freefall – photo Adrian
Cool exit – photo Reece

Sunday we got 5 loads done by the 45 fun jumpers here, and Chris ran the Belly Bash event.

The CYPRES and Performance Designs demo tour arrived at our Toogs DZ! Joel Strickland from Airtec GmbH & Co. Kg and Rich Madeley from PD will be here for our Learning Curve Camp next week with a selection of PD canopies available to demo for FREE! They will answer any questions you may have and hold packing seminars. 🪂

Packing lesson in lead up to Learning Curve
Cypres tent – photos by Skydive Ramblers

Belly Bash

We beat the weather (sort of)! Thanks to everyone who ignored the forecast and defiantly made it out to Belly Bash today! We may have only managed one load before the winds went ballistic but the jumps were epic!

Special shout-out to guest organiser Emily for getting us on load 2 and ensuring there was zero chance of us missing our weather window!! As ever, huge thanks to our camera legends Michael, Steve and Jason for capturing the evidence, and to our sponsors, Skydive Ramblers, Toogoolawah Skydivers Club Inc, South Queensland Parachute Council, Australian Parachute Federation and Mee Loft.

Chris Dodds. 

Belly Bash Squashed Spider Formations – photo by Michael Young
Belly Bash Sidebody Pins – photo by Steve Fitchett – www.fitchimages.com

Belly Bash – photo by Steve Fitchett – www.Fitchimages.com

Sorry to say the Learning Curve Camp week is looking a touch frosty!!!

See ya,

Macca and Team Ramblers.


Reviews & Visitor Book Comments

 Liam“Thanks for the awesome experience.“

Testimonials


DZ Flashback – Blast From The Past

Click on the album below for historical photos.

And visit our Ramblers history webpage for more info…

The experience was amazing, Oli Adrian and Sara were really nice.  I keep re-watching the video over and over again, this will be a favourite memory for a life time. Can't wait to do it again. 

Selina

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