Out of 10,000 feet of fall, always remember
that the last half inch hurts the most
Congratulations to Jolanda Blum to her IAF course.
Finally our "social butterfly" has completed her IAF course in Lido, Indonesia. She has been seen a few weeks later in Perth / Australia jumping from the sky. Her next dropzone in her skydiving career will be in Pattaya in the middle of september.
Another member of the freeflychicks?
Once again, SkydiveAsia CONGRATULATES her on her conquest.
Skydiveasia proudly presents the new Freefly Team "Freeflychicks Asia".
The team members are:
Natasha was trained in Perth / Australia
BTW: just to let you know: Natasha made her 200th jump and owes lots of Beer
Wanni took some lessons with the FLYBOYZ in Perris Valley / CA
Good luck girls.
Although Segamat has been used as a drop zone since many years, we had to check the possibility to go skydiving there independantly of any commercial structure or any proper association. Ashley organised it for us and, apart for the cost, it was quite succesful. Saturday 27 July 2002, we woke up at 5am (gosh, that was a short night, i packed my canopy at 1am) and 3 taxis later, Ashley, Natasha and me were at the flying club in Senai airport. Danniel was driving to Segamat with Marcus. We boarded the aircraft at 8am (should take of earlier next time), with Aziz as a pilot. 50 minutes later we reached Segamat, had a look at the airstrip from 2000 feet, then climbed to 10000 feet for our first jump.
Alltogether we made 5 sorties. we could have done two more but the weather was not with us and we got heavy rain soon after 3pm. Each rotation takes between 45 and 50 minutes. With 6 skydivers it would be perfect: far enough time for packing, dirtdiving and even a short rest between two jumps.
The airstrip is in the middle of a golf course, and the local flying club has a clubhouse providing drinks, food and even, maybe, accomodation. For more information, please contact Ashley.
This event was organized over five days, from April 14 to April 18, in Malacca, near Batu Berendam Airport.
A total of seven rounds were jumped by eleven teams. The CN-235 was used for this competition.
The results will be published later.
Several kampong residents are in the process of becoming USPA-certified skydive coaches. Theory lessons (using the shine-y new USPA instruction manual and carried out by Uncle) have started and some of the required jumps were made 6-7 April. Marcus still has to take the plunge and return to belly flight for a whole 3 jumps life can be tough for freeflyers.
Ashley and Come got their USPA coach ratings in may 2002.
Since the beginning of september the Pilatus Porter is back in Kalijati.
Kept busy on its first weekend of skydiving operations on 8-9 Sept with a new Indonesian 4-way team preparing for the national competition on 21-22 Sept, a demo jump and Indonesian jumpers happy to be in the air again after several weeks of no altitude. Oh yes, and Wanni and Natasha couldn't resist the last-minute news and went over to check it out... we have good ideas sometimes.
You may not realize it walking down Orchard Rd, but Singapore is seriously under-populated. We know this from reading the Straits Times. So, the kampong community is doing its part to service national needs... members will provide at least 2 units towards solving the baby crisis by the end of the year. Well done Skybabe, Uncle and Yen, Herman and Anette.
What is harder to explain is the possibility that Steve BLACK will be providingthe same service for Indonesia sometime soon, given his views on population levels generally. Actually, just explaining how he got one step towards that possibility is hard enough. Must have been the romantic proposal. Terrific result anyway Black, and uh, congratulations to your fiancée.Just for the record: Wanni still owes something for her 100 jump. When will it be, Wanni?
Come promises to tell us more sometime about flying the nitron 98 after putting a few more jumps on his new toy. And when he's finished his physics discussion on canopy size, he's going to confirm that lightweight intermediate jumpers can jump sub-100 canopies if we shorten our arms. Right?