Skydive Ratings

Coach course May 4-5 ,2013

admin — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:59:34 +0000

This weekend just Carla Brey from Palatka in class. We should be done by Sunday evening. I like an all woman’s course

AFF Instructor course April 27 – May 2, 2013

elly — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:29:27 +0000

This weeks course started of nicely with a weekend with beautiful weather. Derek Thomas is helping us this week with the air and ground evaluations.Taking the course are Scott Jawidzik from Orange Virginia and Romulo Antunes from Brazil. Thomas Dahl tried out some practice jumps during the weekend.

We almost completed the pre-course. Scott and Romu are both almost ready for evaluation jumps. Today we did just one jump and are in class for the remainder of the day.

Here are some images

Today is May 1 All of the ground work is done. We saw some great category C and D student briefings and all we have to do now is wait for the weather to clear. Three more loads and the course is finished

Strong Tandem rating course April 24-26

elly — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:59:12 +0000

We had a real nice course starting April 24 with John Rogers and Jeff Plisko from Tradewinds Skysports in North Carolina and Jordan Ermer from Skydive Wissota in Wisconsin. Great group, lots of learning and a little bit of fun here and there as well. John and Jeff just got their Phase I jumps done before they had to head back to NC to be hom on time to open the DZ on Saturday morning. Jordan could stay through the weekend and was able to complete both phase I and phase II.

Sigma Tandem rating course April 20-22, 2013

elly — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:08:48 +0000

Today is the start of a new Sigma Instructor course with Angela from Tennessee and Matt from Pennsylvania are with us to become Tandem Instructors. David Helton is teaching today for the most part. Hopefully the weather will hold up. It has been cloudy with several layers but good enough for jumping so we’re keeping our fingers crossed.

Dan O’Connell from NY state is working on getting his tandem rating current at the same time. Most of the class is done at this time. Everyone passed the harness test so almolst time to jump. First jump in the Sigma course is a Tandem solo jump.

Here are some pictures:

AFF course April 13-18, 2013

elly — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:40:28 +0000

Last weeks AFF course was a great group with 7 skydivers . Joey Allen and Lawrence Maulsby from Canada, Benoit Foulon from France/Canada and Derek Slade, Kyle Salvato, Matt O Gwynn, Allen Heitz from different areas of our own country. Thanks for coming to us and let us know how you like doing real AFF!

AFF course March 9-13, 2013

admin — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:02:15 +0000

Matt OGwynn was with us for a few days to make practice jumps and Jarod, Waylon and Jan Kruger from Germany were here to take the AFF pre-course and Instructor course.
We are almost done with the course and are hoping to finish the last evaluations today

Coach course February 19-20, 2013

admin — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:04:20 +0000

Chris from England, Bob from Canada and Adam from Missouri are in the Coach rating course this time.
Class is done and most of the jumps as well. working on ground evaluations at the moment

Sigma tandem instructor course February 18-20

admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:52:11 +0000

Today is another tandem instructor course with 3 new candidates. Jerry Borek ,already a Tandem Instructor
from Skydive Chicago came down to refresh on the class material.
Here are some images:

Coach course January 26-28, 2013

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:55:23 +0000

8 people showed up on Saturday morning to take our Coach rating course.A real nice group with some of our local Skydive City skydivers and also skydivers from other DZ’s as far as Kansas.
Here are some images

Sigma Tandem instructor rating course January 19-21

admin — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:30:48 +0000

Nick and Ken arrived Friday afternoon to be ready for the Tandem course to begin on Saturday morning.
Almost a full day of class and we’re up to jumping as I speak.