Welcome to June 2006 at the Freefall University Spain. Skydiving , Skydiving, BBQ, nightlife ,,skydiving … non stop ! Great midweek operation…dont struggle to get the jumps..

1st June 2006

The sunset load, possibly the best one of the day ( next to the first one 🙂 . Here a load full of Freefall University AFF graduates gets ready to take to the skies..

Here is the pilatus fresh back from the factory. Ready to claim the title of the fastest climber in Spain… Just got a part to put on the prop and were sorted..

Congratulations to Frank Carolan who finished his AFF course in Style. Frank is with the army and getting ready for selection. Getting his wings on this course was an important moment for him…well done.

Vidur Kipur who graduated our AFF course at the end of May has completed all his solo jumps , his CH1 and is still jumping to the max..well done!

David Donegan has also completed his A license..well done David.David is a soldier from Ireland and did fab on his course. Pleasure to meet you David and I look forward to seeing you out here again… best of luck house hunting !

Yes Sean, Life is good. Great to have you on our AFF course. We look forward to seeing you out here again soon!

Welcome Back to Louis Morell who trained on our AFF course some six weeks ago. He has come back to do some more solos skydiving and maybe get stuck into Lucies formation skydiving course.

Welcome back to Sam Stokes who trained with us a few weeks ago on one of our AFF courses. Sam is back to skydiving to the max and when we met in Aranjuez last night he seemed to be enjoying the nightlife too..

Aranjuez being a city of 100,000 people ( where your hotels are located ) is a ” Fiesta ” ( spanish for party ) town.. there is always something going on, concerts, fireworks, big clubs etc. ITs all there if you want it!

Nick Hybrid , Selmes ! Nicks being clocking up the jumps like theres no tommorrow. This is his fourth holiday with us since doing the AFF course earlier this year. He has completed his AFF course on teh last trip with us and is now not far from achieving his Freefly one ( FF1 ) qualificaiton.

Here is a photo of Lorin Finnie , who has completed his A license. He will be skydiving in Langar when he gets home and we also advised him to check out Hinton aswell as London Parachute Schools.

Here is Sean Foley on one of his consols… perfect body position. Sean .. a pleasure , look forward to seeing you out here again soon..

Here is Sean with some of the guys just before the jump.. Come out to the FFU .. not only will you have a great time skydiving but you will meet people from all walks of life..

2nd July 2006

Welcome to Claire Fletcher who is here to complete an AFF course.

Welcome to Tom Coley who is here to complete an AFF course.

3rd June 2006

Welcome to Christopher Woodcock from Cavan in Ireland who joins us to learn to skydive. He is pictured here getting ready for his level 5 AFF Skydive. Christopher selected Central Spain as it offers the best weather for AFF training with lower temps, less wind ( no sea breezes — bad ). This perfect weather combined with a fast turn around on both our aircraft ( our new porter is doing 10 minute climbs to 13.5K ) has allowed Chirs to progress rapidly in the two days he has been here.

No stranger to Ocaña , Leslie Potton a recent graduate is back for more freefall at the Freefall Uni. Leslie trained with us a number of weeks ago and has selected our centre for his continuation training.

Well done Tom! Ace progression. Tom has also rapidly advanced through the skydiving course and is now on level 6.

Claire Also , as she is pictured here getting ready to practice her AFF level 5 exit with the freefall doctor…

So , thinking about AFF training ? Come to the FFU Ocaña, but do call today , we have had to dissapoint many as we are becoming fully booked out for the rest of the summer. Sam or David in Client care are awaiting your call.

12th June 2006 – The week in review

Mark Griffith joined us for an AFF course. He is pictured here with his AFF instructor Andy Gregory.

Mark had a spot on course , he is getting ready for his AFF level 6.

Top man! Here he is locked on at 4000ft on his AFF level seven graduation dive with Andy giving him the thumbs up…

Emma Lane also joined us from London for an AFF course. Well post pics of her in freefall when they come in 🙂

Colin Curran has also joined us to completed the conversion from the Static Line course to the AFF course .

Welcome to Russell Bargery and Lea Teall but former graduates from last year at the FFU.. good to see you back guys..hope you like Ocana ( and Aranujuez nightlife )

One of our pilots takes some time out to jump with Peter our cameraman.. Here Peter is flying head down and Ed is in sit… both are doing about 150 mph only inches from each other.. sweet!

Welcome to Andrew Evans pictured here on the right who joins us to learn to skydive on the AFF course.

Nick Robins also joined us to complete an AFF course.

So too did Nick Elliot .. who is from the North of Ireland.. hes well into his AFF course now.

Simon King also joined us to get stuck into the AFF course and realise a life times ambition to learn to skydive ..welcome !

12th – 19th June 2006 – Week in review.

This week lots going on at the Freefall University. While some of the week was hampered by some spectacular and unusual thunderstorms we jumped every day with everybody completing the number of skydives they wanted. Some people managed to get ten jumps per day over the weekend…

Freefly to the max. Louis is growing the community of fun jumpers practicing and learning to freefly. Freshly boosted from his silver medal in the Hib Grand Prix Louis now has his focus when not training new freeflyers on getting ready for the world championships and British Nationals.

Our tandem passengers have their own aircraft allowing us cater for over 50 tandems one day this week without disturbing the capacity for fun jumpers who wanted to get upwards on ten skydives a day. We now via computerized manifest systems monitor wait times and proactivley manage the fleet in order to keep the time between loads low for those who want it that way. The best way to manifest is to let the manifestor know how much time you would like between your jumps. for those using packers we accept requests as low as 20 minutes.

Here Delta Papa emplanes for another load .

Here Oscar echo gets ready for another load. In the door you can see Kevin Ilsley and Joni Mallet who are both returning students getting ready for another fun jump. Both trained with us a few months ago. Joni achieved her BPA FS1 with us on a weekend visit! Joni did seven skydives in one day and Kevin did eleven skydives in one day ( Sunday ).

Emma ” Multimap ” Lane passed her AFF course , did her consols and CH1..well done 🙂

Welcome back to Lee Teal who learned to skydive with us last year. He racked up the jumps in his week with us.

Fly and enjoy , some students chill out in the sun between loads.

Here is Kevin, he has now passed the 50 jump mark..

Team Equinox , one of the local freefly teams at the drpozone.

Andrew whom is one of our AFF graduates this week has his girlfriend join him on holiday with us. She did and loved her Tandem skydive.

Congratulations to Colin Curran who did the AFF course with us. He managed to get seven consols in one day.

So guys ..do you like to fly the new solo Canopies. We as a school love the Aerodyne solo canopies and have placed orders for a further three of these bad boys and will be phasing out the Navigators for all but our gear designed for heavier students ( 14-16.5 stone ).

Congratulations to Gareth Watkins who graduated his AFF course. he has been jumpin solo to the max.

Congratulations to Nick Robinson who has completed his AFF course, consols and BPA CH1.

Andrew Evans has also passed his AFF course , consols and CH1 and is now solo skydiving for fun 🙂

Here is Daiyle Door who joins us for an AFF course and his seen here with Tim his AFF instructor.

Here is Russel Horgan who joined us for an AFF course. He too rocked through the course with Luci as his instructor and did all his solos and CH1.

Welcome also to Jas Jaciek from Germany who joined us on our BASE jumping course. Hes now off to make his first BASE jumps.

Well done also to Mike Taylor who passed his AFF course with us.

Welcome back also to James Mundy who trained with us in February. He came back to jump to the max…. In the background you can see Delta Papa while James checks out Oscar echo ” upstairs ” making a drop.

So the week coming ? Well this week we are making a documentary for / with ITV in conjunction with our London dropzone. The Ozbornes including Jack will be going through their paces on the AFF course. And this will result in a 17 million audience on prime time tv.. Were very happy to have been selected for the AFF training. Were looking forward to the group which booked out a small hotel between stars and film crew. Also we have a lot of other things going on so be sure to check in !

The week in review 19th to 26th June

The Freefall University are proud to have been selected to train the participants in the series
Jack Osbourne Around the world the hard way which will air later in the year.

All arrived having never skydived before, the producetion company told us.. 3 days… 3 days for what … 3 days to train Jack to land safely in the UK for the finale…. dont you mean a bit more than AFF and CH1 then ?? ..yes… Well Jack did his AFF and solos / accuracy course in 3 days and has told us that this is one of the sports he will keep up for sure what with LPS being down the road and Perris in California. You can see Luci working to stay proximate to his parachute handle , Jack is locked on and so is his secondary flying in formation. Nobody is holding each other and they are descending about 130mph.

Jack did great under the instruction of Luci Boella one of our full time staff. Here is a picture of Jack on his level three where is he has been released for this first time. Sorry about the logos all over the camp but its part of our agreement to only publish the pictures in this format for the moment… He will take a flight from here wearing his gear and jump straight into London Parachute School ( Our UK dropzone ) in the UK where his folks will be waiting for him. Fingers crossed for some good British weather… 🙂 today ( Friday )

Another participant from the show does some freestlye on one of her first solos here. The Freefall University also supplied all the cameramen for the show with the production company decided not to fly in their “experts” ..Peter did great .. i think this is a fab shot although Peter was a bit forlorn that the sun cast his shadow on the subject here. Bean to is today ( Friday ) making her way across the channel to jump into London Parachute School closest DZ to London one of our partner DZs in the UK. You can get to see us we believe in the finale of the series on the last Saturday in September at 9pm on ITV1. Once we have the global .

Sometimes the crew werent two obvious using smaller cameras ..

Sometimes though as was the case with the Parachute Landing technique module there was a fully fledged camera crew in action… we reckon Luci , third from the left has a great career in tv ahead of her.

Richard McConnell also returns for his third holiday with us to undertake his usual mix of birdman and freefly training.

Peter Stirling joined us for an AFF course this week. Bit of a last minute booking , he called at 1230am one night and arrived the following day.. so if your thinking about a short notice holiday give us a call..

Mayang from Malaysia joined us for the Introduction to skydiving and ended up doing half the course, unsure at first she soon fell in love with the sport and will be back shortly to complete the AFF course with us.

Letitia joined us for an AFF course and is pictured here with her AFF instructor Andy Gregory.

Nathalie from France joined us for an AFF course.

An exit at altitude for another consolidation jump. This one from delta papa.

Begoña from Fance also joined us from France for an AFF course .

Consol jumpers in the boarding area off for another skydive.. some managed to do seven solos in one day ..

Birdmen over Ocaña. More and more people are joining us for the birdmen for beginners . The ground school is only 50 euros and then its 25 euros per day to rent from our extensive range of suits , regardless of how many jumps you do. Here Cedric an expat living in Madrid takes the course with Paula.. 1 minute 33 seconds on the first flight… sweet 🙂

Congratulations to Will Smith who also joined us for an AFF course , he is seen here checking in..

More solos for Bean .. who got right back into it!

Welcome back for your third holiday with us Ian ! Ian learned to skydive with us early in the year and is back once again. He is picutred here checking his email in our own cyber caf on the dz. Internet access is free and you dont even need your own machine!

Welcome to June Part two at the Freefall University in Spain , top weather , top skydiving!

26th – 31st June 2006.
Welcome to Zbigniew from Poland who joined us to complete an AFF course.

Nick Elliot who trained only weeks ago is back for more jumping, hes nearly finished his consol jumps now. His local dropzone is the Wild Geese.

As the world cup was on we spent many evenings on the Dz this month having bbq and cerveza ( spanish for beer 🙂 . An intersesting time given we have French portuguese British , Irish and German people here at the moment..

Houdini is the master of ceremonies at hte bbq..

This month saw lots of freefly action now that Danillo is finished his exams.

There is no stopping Sylvan Butt our school mini bus driver.. He has clocked up over 300 jumps in just five months since qualifying to skydive solo the aff course .Then with Luci he completed the BPA formation skydiving course.

Sylvan has completed our base jumping course and also our birdman course . He is pictured here getting ready for his first two way birdman flight after his course with Andy Gregory who was his original AFF instructor.

Tom De Pelet is becoming a regular now since qualifying two months ago , this is his third time with us and hes getting ready for our formation skydiving course.

Billy Gibbons returned to work on his Freefly skills. On his last trip he qualified for the FF1 freefly qualification. Hes seen here getting ready for a 2 way with Sylvan.

Brian Constant Joins us to learn to skydive on the aff course.

Nathalie Harvier Joins us from London to do the AFF course. Was indeed an interesting week what with France seeming to run away with things in the world cup.. The BBQ the night France beat Spain was interesting ..

Philip McGaw , or mister ” tainted love ” joined us for another week of skydiving. Phil trained with us last year , spent some time in the wind tunnell before arriving and will get into the Formation skydiving course .

Richard Heish joined us for an AFF course this week.

Welcome to July 2006 at the Freefall University. What a month in store , if you would like one of the few remaining places in July / August / September please get in touch

1st July to 6th July 2006

4 Way for fun. Spanish and British skydivers planning an impromptu 4 way.

Welcome to Sam O Brien who joins us to learn to skydive on the AFF course.

More freefly action.

Nick Elliot who did his aff course with us last month is racking up the solos.. This is his second holiday with us now in about four weeks.

Steffan Williams from Wales who trained with us last year is back for more action over the skies of Ocaña. He did a quick refresh course to get back into things and now is skydiving solo to beat the band.

Richard Styles joined us for an AFF course. Our AFF courses are fanatastic fun and great to come on your own or in a group. Theres always lots happening..

Looks like three courses ( Birdman BASE and freefly ) in a month is finally taking its toll on Sylvan..he didnt move most of the day… Except of course to run the shuttle bus service from the hotels in Aranjuez to the dropzone for our clients in the mornings and evenings.

Ready , Set …go ! Richard exits with Andy Gregory for his level four skydive. This is the last time you will leave the plane with your instructor holding onto you. From level five on you generally go with him/her at your side.

The weather has been just perfect in central Spain. No sea breazes to contend with ( or keep you on the ground ) .

Michael Harris who also joined us for the AFF course is clocking up the solos..

John Walsh who joined us for the AFF Course heads off for his level three skydive. The level three is the last level where you have two instructors with you. Here you see Tim on the right and Pedro on the left as they slide down the relative wind just after jumping. With the relative wind you fly sideways for a few seconds due to the fact that when you leave the plane its flying forwards. Once out you start to accelerate towards the planet and will in a few seconds be belly to earth.

Its been pretty much non stop. With the FFU Ocana there is no struggle to get the jumps in. Many people ask us how many jumps they can get in a day.. more than you can handle is the answer… When selecting a school , make sure its not one that will struggle to fly its plane mid week..

Welcome to John Merchant Locke and Alastair Wheatland who joined us for an aff course . They are pictured here in check in. If you are not to tired from travelling you will get straight into it with your personal tutor.

Neil O Grady , another graduate from the AFF Course manifests himself. Our manifestor Robert has been doing a top job , putting people on loads and making sure you get the skydive numbers you want..

Manifesting is easy , go the the window tell them youd like to go to 13K ASAP and listen out for your name..

Welcome to Rajan Chaudhary who joins us for an AFF Course. Rajan was a last minute booking confirming his arrival the day before travel. If you would like to learn to skydive call us to see if we have a short notice space.

Mark Hudson also joined us for an AFF course. Top course Mark.

Many thanks to Leticia and Pete Sterling for giving us permission to post some pictures they took on Holiday with us. You can see the rest of them here: Leticia and Peters Skydiving Holiday

Both were students on our AFF Course

Heres one from dinner in an Argentian Restaurant in Aranjuez. Steak the size of a yellow pages for about 9 euros! This restaurant is 2 minutes away from the hotel district.

And another Pete Snapped from a group coming in after a jump. Check out the link to see more photos and video from their course.

Check it out here : Leticia and Peters Skydiving Holiday

6th -13th July 2006

Ricardo Ferreria joined us from Portugal to complete the AFF Course. In addition to English , French and German courses this year saw us open the Freefall University Portugal. His instructor is Paula Silva.

Here they are seen exiting the Porter on the Level four. The Level four AFF skydive is the first level where you move down to one instructor. You complete a body check with the instructor who then releases you ( but stays close ) so you can practice turns for the first time.

Level five is more or less the same except you get more freedom with the turns to practice 360 degrees. In this photo Ricardo is ” locked on ” to his altimiter in advance of opening his parachute.

Darren Wildgoose did a great job on his AFF course. He is pictured here with his AFF Instructor Tim Boyd.

This is Mikey Harris who has completed his AFF course with Luci and gone on to do the formation skydiving course. Mike had started an AFF course in the UK but didnt finish it but chose to do so with ourselves. He brought his own jump suit with him and his own gear which he was able to jump once he had finished his consol jumps.

Here is Barry O Connell from the UK who did an AFF course and his consols with us this week. Well done Barry

Here he is on his level seven with Andy. THe level seven skydive is all about demonstrating all that you have learned during the last six jumps…

Recovering Stability
Turns
Tracks
Loops
Altitude Awareness
Pull Sequence
Landing your parachute accuratley.

Mike Key also joined us for an AFF Course this Week.

Matthew Watkins joined us for an AFF Course.

Here he is on level seven getting an ” arch ” reminder from Luci his instructor.

And here he is front flip during a solo skydive.

Ardoiun Baker who also joined us to complete an AFF course/ consols went on to do shorts and t shirts dives also.

Here some of the guys pose for a photo before taking to the air. Also on the left not in the news before now is Richard Jeans who joined us for an AFF course.

Richard is pictured here on a a solo skydive. All the solo skydive pictures were taken by Peter one of our cameramen.

14th- 27th July 2006

Here is Jason Ashworth who joined us for a weeks skydiving. Jason had not skydived before cominng on the AFF course.

Carl Ross joined us for an aff course. He is pictured here with Aimee. Aimee meets the people who want private transfers in the airport.

Carl will be with us for a week.

Jonathan didnt take long to get stuck into his course. You arrive and if not too tired get into your ground school the same day.

Here he is getting ready to exit , he did so well under Lucis supervision ´that he did his first solo exit on level four !

You ” passed ” , thumbs up from Luci on the freefall portion of level seven.

Julia arrived to learn to skydive with us. Julia no stranger to adventure sports had not jumped before but was ” stopping off ” here before going onwards to Cyprus to scuba dive.

She is pictured here practicing the exit for the first jump with Ulli her instructor.

Level one done , smashing level one too. Julia commented ” I forget about keeping my legs straight” ..dont worry this is the intro level and you have eight to get things the way you´d like them. Smashing first level Julia !

Yup ! Ready to rock.

Handshake in freefall for your graduation ..sweet !

Julia went on to do her ten solos and CH1.

Carl Made short work of his course and soon was getting into the solo jumps.

Nick Corry , ex forces also arrived to learn to skydive on our AFF course. He is pictured here with his coach Luci Boella.

Nick is taking a parachute apart in this photo getting an idea of how it works in his ground shchool. On the left you can see Enkel from Germany. Enkel was a visitor to Ocana some months ago and recently moved to Ocana to work as a packer ahnd in German client care. Welcome on board.

Nick went on to pass his AFF course in days and in these photos you can see him and Carl another AFF graduate from this week heading off to the flightline to board for another solo skydive.

Dustin Calstelsky from Canada also joined us this forthight for an AFF course which he completed in 2 days, he went on to rack up the solos before leaving to rejoin his ocean liner. He is a first officer on the ship and promised to rejoin us the next time he docks in Southhampton.

Mike Harris who trained with us a few weeks ago has posted his video on google video

Video of Mike Harris on his aff course

Mike is also after a main and says ” i’m looking for a 170 main that has at least 100 jumps on it. something like a sabre, sabre2, pilot, PD 170, silhouette or anything else that isnt eliptical. Budget limit is gbp500. If you have a main your looking to sell you can contact Mike via our students forum

The ” arch ” is the basic body position in skydiving and the first thing you will master on our AFF course. Here Ben Riding who joins us for an AFF course practices the position.

Ben trained with Tim and can be seen here getting a gear check. You get three gear checks before every skydive on the AFF course. Once when you put the gear on , one in the boarding area and on the “2 minute call” at altitude.

Nicholas Waller who trained with us a few months ago is back for more. He will complete the formation skydiving course.

Here is another happy man! Well done Darren Wildgoose who passed his AFF course with Timothy. Thumbs up are exchanged on the lower portion of the level seven aff skydive.

Another last minute booking was Duncan Folkes who decided with two days notice to come on the AFF course. He trained with and completed his AFF course with Tim in three days.

Joao Morais from Portugal also joined us for a weeks skydiving holiday. He had never jumped before and will train with Paula Silva.

He did his course in three days and is seen here getting ready for another solo.

27th – 31st July 2006

Just a note in regards to credit cards. We can accept visa debit / credit and mastercard. We regrettably are not able to accept Maestro Cards. This is on the instruction of our Bank , La Caixa.

Welcome to August Skydiving 2006 at the Freefall University. mid week flight. Indeed some of last months graduates who stayed for one week were completing their AFF course and upwards on 30 solos in a week!

1st August to the 5th August 2006

Welcome to Craig Dixon who joins us for an AFF course. He is seen here with Julia who graduated our AFF course in Late July.

Marian Collande who joined us for an AFF course. Marian is from Germany

David McGill who us for an AFF Course.

BBQ´s are a regular feature of evening life on the dropzone. A steak the size of a telephone book costs about 2 quid in the shops and goes down well with a few beers after jumping is over for the day.

Tim who joined us in Late July for an AFF course is pictured her getting ready for another solo. He did his AFF course in 2 days and went onto clock up 23 solos in five days. Hes already planning a return trip back.

Here he is on his last jump before heading home.

Robert Bradley also joined us for an AFF course.

Milos Momcilovic joined us for an AFF Course.

Adam Casey joined us for an AFF course.

Nicholas Waller joined us to complete the formation skydiving course. Nicholas joined us last Feb for an AFF course and this is his third trip to the university.

Stop smilin.. this is serious… freefall puts a smile on your face no matter what! Here is Craig Dixon on one of his AFF jumps.

Here is Marian getting ready to ” exit ” on his level seven graduation skydive.
Marian has already booked to come back in September and wants to be a freeflyer, his favourite aff jump was the level seven when he got ” off his belly ” for the first time.

Robert did great also, and was last seen at the 20+ jump mark!

David McGill is enjoying the solo skydives , here he is on one of his jumps where he took a cameraman along.

Lets fly , Turbine sunset. Here you see another sunset load embark. With us its very simple. Arrive , train .. tell us how many jumps you want to do .. ten a day ?? no problemo..

Julia did great on her AFF course and completed her consols in day and a half… she decided to go onwards and has now also completed her formation skydiving course. Over 30 jumps in one week 🙂

What will be your favourite part of the skydive ? Here is Marian exiting the porter for another solo skydive. This time a backflip out the door.

Marian hit the 25 jump mark early in his week.

Robert and Adam are pictured here in the ” right Stuff ” pose getting ready for their first solo skydive .. have fun … you will never forget your first solo.. the moment you stand in the door look back in , give the others a quick wink and off you go…

Fly together and party together. Many people ask what its like to come on their own. Dont worry about it , this load has doctors, soldiers ..all backgrounds , but nobody knew each other before arriving but you will make some lasting friendships on the course. Being one of Europes most popular AFF destinations means you will be immersed in high adrenaline environment.

Fly Aerodyne ? We are purchasing yet again and given the excellent characteristics of the Aerodyne Solo ( in our view ) over the Navigator we are getting some more of them in at the end of the month. We will alse be taking delivery of more Aerodyne containers and Aerodyne demo systems so you can fly with a view to buy. If you rent our Aerodyne gear and subsequently purchase you can discount the cost of the gear rental from your purchase value!

Did you know ? We offer the Aerodyne Pilot main , Smart Reserve , Icon container and AAD for as little as 3500 pounds vat included ? Our excellent relationship with the seller of the worlds fastest selling reserve parachute has allowed us leverage awesome prices for your first complete set of gear.

Would you like to learn to skydive , or take part in one of our continuation courses or have us tailor training to your needs ? Then get in touch . The next month sees people from afar afield as Syria and Australia come train with us aswell as “easyjet loads” of people from the UK, Germany , Portugal and Ireland . Theres only 3 spaces left in August and about 8 in September , so be sure to book soon.

6th / 7th August

In addition to meeting people from the UK on AFF courses you will also meet Portuguese , German and Spanish people. In the last week we had 8 Uk students graduate but also people from Germany and Portugal. Here is another AFF beginner group just arrived from Southern Portugal. Paula is seen here doing the ground school. Paula works as a main instructor in the portugese team and a support ( secondary ) in the UK team. She is also a Base and birdman coach.

This group of jumpers came to us for a level one skydive on our introduction to skydiving package.

Madrid and Aranjuez ( where our reccomended hotels are ) are the perfect destination for a stag or hen party. Here John the groom gets a small ground school of his mates before starting ours 🙂

Adam has finshed his AFF cousre in style and is now jumping solo. He has completed about 15 solos and still has a few days left with us!

Here Anna from Portugal is seen getting ready for her first skydive.

If you see this signal i freefall.. a hand waving gently .. your instructor is suggesting you relax your mucles..sometimeds people tend to adopt a stiff body position and not a relaxed ( almost limp ) one.

Each time before you skydive. You run through the theory of the skydive and then do a thorough practice to include the “exit”. Or leaving the plane. Here you see a level four being practiced with Joana one of our AFF students arrived the yesterday morning. This will be her first jump with one instructor.

Niet who lives in London has joined us to complete her AFF course. She graduated yesterday evening and has already been skydiving solo.

Event for your diary:

On the 27th of September we will be starting a week long focus on formation skydiving. For some this will be perhaps a good time to do your BPA FS1 rating and for others the odd coached jump here and there. There are people coming from many UK dropzones for jumping and training , if you would like to visit us perhaps for the first time get in touch. It promises to be a fun week.

8th August

Welcome to Nicola Conaty who joins us for an AFF course. She is seen here after her first skydive. Looking pretty happy with herself and well she should .. she did a great job!

9,5 from the client care jury on the artistic scale ! Well done Milos who has passed the 25 jump mark and is trying all kindsa funky stuff expecially on the exit here from the porter.

Well done Maria Pimental who did her aff course in 2 days. She joins the solo team now for a few days solo jumping / coaching. Despite being from Portugal she will go through the BPA curriculum which includes CH1.

Ana Dias has one more level to do, she finished the day on level six and will do her last AFF jump tommorrow morning.

You see some funny things on a dropzone . From watching rival ant colonies battle it out to a cross between a skateboard and a bike.. a handy way to get around i guess.

Nick has been jumping away to his hearts content. Hes now of course FS1 qualified meaning he has been jumping with other people.

9th -12th August

Bannanaman is back ! Welcome back to Alan Anderson who was actually our third ever AFF student some years ago. Alan has chosen formation skydiving as his discipline and is jumping away with some of our other returning students and fun jumpers.

A tradition when you graduate your skydiving course is to purchase a crate of beer for your fellow jumpers. This is strictly only after jumping has finished for the day of course .

Here Maria and Anna serve beer from their crates at the end of the day.

Kelvyn Hicks and Gemma Butler joined us for an AFF course.

Nicola Conaty graduated her AFF course and went on to do her consol jumps.
She is pictured her from the cam of Luci Boella on her Level 6.

We were joined by a group from the UK who came down to check out the FFU and Aranjuez on our tandem skydive program. The aim of this skydive is to give you a taster of the sport in a safe environment. We dont focus heavily on tandems Most have said they will be back soon do do our AFF course.

Gemma Butler did great on her course and graduated in two days.

Luke her brother also joined us to do the introduction jump. He loved it and will be back shortly for the AFF course.

Shaun Gender Evans joined us for the complete AFF course and is pictured here with Tim .

Shaun trained with Tim and here you see them together in one of our traing rooms debriefing the skydive. The video we take of your course is invaluable as a training aid but is also yours to take at the end of the course on a DVD. This is a standard feature of our aff course not a hidden extra!

Well done to Phil Stephens who completed the AFF course with us, he went on to complete his ten consols and then some.

Welcome to Carl Murphi and Barry O´Neill who join us from dublin to complete the AFF course.

Adrenalin and a great vibe make a dropzone a timeless place. When your not jumping you will probably be snoozing around the place inside or otudside depending on whether you want a tan.

Creeper or as you will come to know them ” Trolley ” training , we practice the arch position with you ” lots ” on the ground so you can do it easily in the air . Even though Carl and Barry are mates and arrived together they still trained togather with Andy and Luci doing their Ground school together. This one to one for groups mean you do things together and not in turns , whilst still having a private tutor.

The level seven handshake! Well done Kelvyn Hicks who passed his AFF course and completed his consols.

Here is Gemma on another skydive .. whats she saying to the cameraman ?? perhaps ..oh my god i can see Madrid !

Cliff Badger also joined us for an introduction to skydiving and is pictured here with his instructors .

Red sky at night skydivers delight. see ya soon 🙂

12th – 15th

Welcome To Andre Pedro from south Portugal who joins us for an AFF course. He is pictured here during the one of the theoritical modules of his ground school.

Congratulations to Peter Sterling who completed his AFF course.

Letitia Sterling also joined us to complete some fun jumps and is on the left here.

He is pictured here with Alan Kennedy who joined us to undertake his AFF course.

Congratulations to Karl Murphi who completed his AFF course and has now departed to continue his skydiving in Ireland. He is pictured here on the right with his instructor Andy Gregory.

Alan Kennedy is pictured here just before boarding menally rehearsing the dive once more before boarding.

Here is a shot of him on his level six exit. This picture is taken with the cameraperson hanging underneath the aircraft and dropping off into freefall a fraction of a second before Alan exits.

Here he is practicing turns with his instructor in front of him.

Martyn , Daffyd and Simon have arrived to undertake their AFF course and they are seen here taking a parachute apart during the ground school during hte equipment module.

Joseph Thurnheer also arrived to us to undertake the AFF training is pictured here with Luci during the canopy flight module. They are looking at various overheads of the dropzone taken from different altitudes.

Stuart Alexander also joined us and completed an AFF course he is seen here dropping his gear off after level five. He is getting stuck into his solo skydives now.

On the right Andre is pictured here just after graduating.

Amar Katchka has joined us for an AFF course also . He is picture having arrived into reception. We dont waste any of your time. If your not tired from travel we get into the AFF course straight away.

15th – 23rd

here an unknown jumper returns from another skydive.

Asad Jamal seen here on his level seven getting a ” finger shake ” graduated his AFF course. Asad is from the UK and will jump in Black Knights when he gets home.

Here he is with his instructor and my trusty jump suit 🙂

Andre from Portugal is seen here executing a perfect backwards roll from the aircraft.

Andre has done 22 solos so far and counting.

Brad Thomas is finished his AFF course now . Here is a photo of him with Tim on their way to the boarding area.

Amar Katcha .. Well done on graduating the AFF course. He is pictured getting ready for another solo.

Congratulations to Simon Martin who also graduated our AFF course this week.

Martin Cowan also finished the AFF course in double quick time and is seen here practicing the exit in the mock up.

Daffyd Morgan is seen here practicing one more time for the level one exit. He has just joined us for the AFF course.

Stuart Alexander joined us this week for an AFF course. He finished in three days and is seen here going through things one more time in advance of his first skydive.

He graduated in no time at all and is seen here with a super freefall grin as captured by Peter one of our professional cameramen.

Alison Pogson arrived to try our introduction to skydiving course and decided to go on to complete the entire AFF course, she loved it so much !

Richard Burnett joined us for an AFF course which he did in a few days. Hes now skydiving solo. Richard is on the left.

Birdman, freefly and AFF , a typical load getting ready to embark.

No , it isnt Ibiza ! But it isnt the Sahara either. A decent nightlife enhances your holiday no end . There are a multitude of bars and restaurants next to the hotel district in Aranjuez and all keenly priced too. This is an ideal opportunity to swap skydiving stories , meet new friends and unwind after a ” hard ” days jumping. and , erm , yes the locals , dig foreigners.

And next day… back for more skydiving.

Next week sees twelve more travellers come from the UK and Ireland to learn to skydive. Docotr Ulli will be running BASE courses and staff will be returning from the UK nationals.

Our monthly shipment arrives from Florida with new rigs for some students and new sets of Gear for the school.

Theres also the FS skills week coming up

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23rd- 29th August

Skydiving in the nude , as experiences go its pretty novel for a new skydiver. The guys who all graduated last week and having competed their consols have been having some fun for the last days.

Top tip: Make sure your legstraps are tight in the kings new clothes !

Its been back to back non stop. We have had jumpers visit from surrounding dropzones attracted to the full time operation which is always nice.

The Spanish side of things has also been busy for us. Fastly we are becoming the most popular aff school in Madrid domestically with 20 “madrileñios” choosing us this month. Here Monti and Goyo who are partners in the dropzone get another AFF student ready for her level one.

Desmond O Reilly from the IPC joined us for the AFF course and got it finished in a few days. Hes seen here getting ready for another solo skydive.. Weighing into the course at about 12 stone , I am curious to know whats in the jumpsuit ?

On the right is Juan Ventura who was my AFF instructor when i was a student many moons ago and Pedro Esper who is the former CCI of Skydive Deland now full time with us.

James Boyland has joined us for an AFF course.

Rory Daly from Carrickmacross in Ireland joins us for an AFF course. Like many he had done a tandem and decided the sport was for him.

Christian Moore has joined us to complete the AFF course. He did it in three days and is now skydiving solo.

Anthony Marron has joined us for an AFF course. He too qualified in 3 days and is now skydiving solo.

Tony Jones has made his third trip from the UK for a short skydiving break. Madrid is the best airport for low cost carriers in Europe making us very popular amongst jet set skydivers in Europe.

Welcome back to Anton Conlon and Wendy Foster who are here to work on their FS skills. The completed the formation skydiving course a few weeks ago and are now back to jump together and take advantage of some further coaching.

Roy Mendis joined us for an AFF course.

John Poole who completed an AFF course with us some months ago has also returned for some more skydiving. John will complete our packing course and also his formation skydiving course.

Tom O Connor who did AFF with us about 18 months ago has come back for another skydiving holiday. He did some wind tunnell time before arriving from the UK and will make a start on the formation skydiving course.

Stay tuned , well post another update in the next day or so with news of our gradautes and new arriving AFF students.

In the last ten days 30 of this years remaining spaces have been reserved and some parts of next year are already heavily booked. IF you would like to come and train with us get in touch today.

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Welcome to the Freefall University news section for September 2006. This month sees our 300th Graduate of 2006 aswell as several other exciting events.

Danny Wall from Ireland joined us for some more skydiving. He trained with us in Ocana this time last year and has jumped since then in several worldwide centres. He was joined by some friends who are here

He was also joined by Tadgh one of his mates from the the navy.

Ross Loyd joined us for an AFF course.

Tom Hambling also joinded us for an AF course and is pictured here on one of his last solos before going home. He took his easyjet Ted E Bear for a skydive here. Easyjet are on of several LCC´s serving madrid with winter sun specials as low as 25 pounds return. Tom joined us with Paddy Halliwell from the UK. Paddy trained with us last year.

Jackie Fazal joined us to complete an AFF course

Another load of fun jumpers takes to the skies.

Manifest is here you put ” your name down ” for another flight.

Lois our senior pilot. He has just been appointed senior pilot and will manage our aircraft. We will continue to operate with one aircraft untill the end of November. Louis has accrued 600 hours flying time this year alone. Thats over 1800 flights!

Kirk Sanderson joined us to complete the AFF course.

Luke Unsworth joined us for an AFF course.

Robert Smith joined us for an AFF course .

Philip Wilson joined us for an AFF course.

Nick Barker joined us for an AFF course .

Paddy Halliwell who trained with us earlier in the year also came back for some more fun jumping. A quick recurrency school and he was in the air again.

Robert Londsdale joined us for hte AFF course.

Simon Gregory joined us for an AFF Course.

Ian Fletcher joined us for his third holiday this year.

Jao Maroe from Portugal joined us for an AFF course .

Justin Sandercoe joined us for an AFF course.

Philip Coutoe joined us for some more fun jumping having completed his AFF course earlier in the year.

Kenning Wendel from Germany joined us to complete the AFF course.

Ed Luke joined us from Scotland to complete the AFF course.

A goup of friends made! Most of these guys didnt know each other before getting here.

Declan Noone from Ireland joined us to complete the AFF course.

Prakash Paran on the right joined us for an AFF course.

Reece Gilmore joined us for an AFF course.

Matthew Bennett joined us for an AFF course.

Thomas Berryman joined us for an AFF course.

Kieran McGrady and Mark McGuire joined us for an AFF course.

Frederico , one of our regular jumpers now and originally an AFF graduate returned for some more fun jumping.

24th September 2006
Danny Wall and Tadgh Clarke took advantage of some our our coaching experience. They did 2:1 coaching with Luci. Both are already qualified FS jumpers

Jamie White pictured here during exit practice in ground school has joined us for an AFF course.

Welcome also to Anne , Georgina and Robert who have joined us to learn to skydive on our AFF course. For Georgina this is the end portion of a long summer travel. She is just back from India.

We dont concentrate on tandems ( our tandems are actually a little more expensive than other spanish dropzones ) like most other dropzones but do occassionally have large groups pop in. Here a group of 12 friends who were in Madrid for a long weekend visited us. All loved the experience and soon they will be back again for the AFF course we hope.

Thomas Berryman has finished his AFF course and consols but is still racking up the solo jums.

Philip Wilson pictured here has completed an AFF course with us and is skydiving solo.

 

Welcome to the Freefall University news section for October 2006.

October

Congratulations to Georgina Cowley who finish our AFF programe and completed her consolidation jumps.

Vibeka and Thorben from the Danish 4 way team are pictured here working on a three way dirt dive with Derrick Potton who has joined us for his third skydiving holiday , he will also be back later this month.

Congratulations to Richard Sheish who has completed our Accelerated Freefall programme.

Welcome to Michael Cambridge who joined us for some fun jumping. He got to try out his new set of gear that he purchased through our gear sales programme.

Welcome back to Ian Gooderham who trained with us earlier this year. This is his third holiday with us this year since completing his AFF training .

Congratulations to Nicola Wiseman who completed our AFF course.

Congratulations to Steve Brook who completed our AFF course and consolidatio jumps.

Mark Darcy and Niall Minihan from Ireland joined us for an AFF course. Here are they wondering it seems .. is it a bird , is it a plane.. well its a bit of both really..

Andy Gregory and Justin Camm to the right are pictured here with several other FFU students getting ready to go to altitude. Justin joined us for the AFF course.

Meet Robert. Robert works part time in our Dutch client care team and part time in Manifest.

Luci Boella trained Niall.

Adrian Micklewright joined us and completed his Accelerated Freefall course.

Congratulations to Mark Russell who completed his AFF course.

A few beers ( well a case actually ) shared between graduates at teh end of a days jumping is mandatory. It is a a long standing tradition that you purchase a case once you finsih your AFF course.

Congratulations to Ricardo Vaz from Portugal who completed his AFF course.

Paul Ancher from Ireland has returned for another holiday with us to complete our BASE jumping course.

Rhodri Huws from Wales also joined us to for some more fun jumping . He did his AFF course with us last year.

Congratulations to Joseph Tester who joined us to do an AFF course and completed it in 2 days.

Derrick Potton joined us for another holiday, this third this year. He also brought some friends along to do a tandem so they could see what he keeps raving about ! Were glad ( like Derrick ) to say they loved their tandem skydives. In the background you can see another load getting ready to board. ,

Duncan Scholes joined us and completed an AFF course. He is pictured here during the ground practice for one of his jumps.

Oliver Taylor joined us for an AFF couse.

Meet Vibeke , one of our new team members at the Freefall University. Vibeke is the head of our Nordic client care team.

Joni Mallet also returned for another Holiday.

Simon Ainscough and Justin Camm joined us for an AFF course.

Chris Stanley is pictured here, he joined us for an AFF course and trained with Luci woh is on the right.

Interesting freefly , not quite sure how that worked..

Maria Richardson and Wendy Foster joined us for more fun jumping. They trained with us late last year and have been back several times now to jump.

Paul and Mark , two fun jumpers from the UK popped in for some fun jumping.

Sam Stokes has joined us for his fourth holiday since training with us earlier this year.

Oystein Backe from Oslo, Norway has joined us for an AFF course.

Patrick Staveacre has joined us for an AFF course.

Amy Craven also joined us for an AFF course.

Kevin Knapp a graduate from earlier in the year returned for some fun jumping. Pleasure to see you back Kevin and we look forward to seeing more of you next year 🙂

Congratulations to Derrick Potton , who joined us and completed his FS1 qualification .

This formation is a called a donut and one of the 13 shapes Derrick made on his 4 way.

Louise from Ireland joined us to complete the AFF course but did take the opportunity to try our a quad.

Here she is for with her instructor Vibeke.

Tom O Connor made his second trip to us in the last weeks. Tom originall trained with us 2 years ago just before we left Lillo.

Oisin McGrath also made the trip to us. Oisin is a military pilot and now a skydiver!

 

Welcome to the Freefall Universities online news , published in November 2006.

Amy Craven joined us for an AFF course.

James Farlow joined us to complete an AFF course. He is pictured here with his instructor Andy Gregory.

As did Graham Parkings.

Naoim Clery from Ireland joined us for the AFF course.

Catherine Aspinall also from Ireland joined us for the AFF course .

Ryan Schultz joined us for an AFF course which he completed in days . He is pictured here with his instructor P Esper who has in excess of 12,000 jumps now.

Alex Duthie joined us for an AFF course and he is pictured here with his instructor Tim Boyd.

Jamie McGuire joined us for an AFF course.

James Farlow joined us for an AFF courses and is pictured here with his AFF instructor Andy Gregory.

Ryan Schultz joined us for an AFF course and is pictured here with his AFF instructor Pedro Esper ( 12,000 skydives and counting 🙂 .

Pictured here is Takis from Greece who joined us to complete the AFF course. He is a professional photogrtapheer ( Canon 🙂 ) and managed to add quite a bit to his portfolio whilst with us. He will be back in Jan when we will be working with us more.

Jumping done for the day and another ” crate ” to be shared with your fellow jumpers. Its a tradition for recently qualified skydiver to purchase a crate to shared once jumping is finished for the day .

Steve Senior joined us for an AFF course.

Jamie Kerr joined us for an AFF course.

Congratulations to our resident team Enigma who came second in the Spanish National skydiving championsips. They also formed part of the 8 way team which were crowned champions for 2006.

This is Shandor Nikitis who joined us for an AFF Course. He is pictured here in ground school looking through one of our printed and bound manuals.

This is Geremias from Stuttgart who joined us for an AFF course. Germais trained with our German school and is pictured here having boarded the porter first.

Want to cross the runway ? Not without Claudis permission !

Here is a picture of Alastair Smith in Freefall , it was taken by Peter our chief cameraman who is also an AFF instructor working in the Polish team.

Here is Marc Daly returning from another skydive. Notice him holding the parachute high in the air ! We generally ask people to treat lifesaving equipment nicely ,, thank you Marc! 🙂

Welcome to the Freefall University News for Jan 2007. A top start to the year which were very excited about. Starting as we mean to continue were straight into our AFF programme with lots of excited travellers arriving from the UK and further afield. Our FS program also starts in style with a bunch of great guys from the UK.
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“Oilman” or Liam Hughes from Bridgwater, Somerset joined us for an AFF course and is pictured here during documentation.

Pedro Esper will be his private tutor for the duration of the course. In the background is Eddy who is an apprentice instructor. Eddy will spend a deal of time shadowing our instructors to ” learn the ropes ” before a longer period of training and evaluation in the US. Becoming an AFF instructor is the biggest challenge a qualified skydiver will face , but an infinitley satisfying avocation.

Alan Browne from Fern Barrow joined us for an AFF course also. This was something Alan always wanted to do and with the help of his private tutor , Andy Gregory hes about to take the ” plunge “.

Andy, an avid traveller himself is fresh back from his holiday in India.

Sylvan Butt, who manages to sleep as much as he jumps is back. Sylvan was a student here last year and moved out to live with us for the better part of the year. He returned home for a short stay .. well actually i guess now hes back home..

Anton Conlon who trained with us last year is back for another holiday.

Dan ” GPS ” Clarke is here to learn how to formation skydive.

Tom Urbanksi who trained with us last March is also back to do some more jumping.

Grahame Clarke who trained with us in July of last year has also returned to get into the new year with a bit more jumping.

Cain Leatham joined us to complete the AFF course

Kristopher Route joined us to complete an AFF course. He is pictured here with his instructor.

Paul Ryan from Cork and Ireland joined us for an AFF course. Hes having a cracking course.

Here is a picture of Kristopher Route in freefall just having exited the porter. He had a great AFF course and went onto skydive solo.

Congrats Kris, your now a qualified skydiver!

The same goes for Cain Leatham who is pictured here having completed his level 8 jump. Onwards to the solos!

Paul Ryan is cracking onwards now , here he is locked on to his alti on his level 6…almost there 🙂

Welcome to Saifee Ghadiyali who joins us to do the AFF course.

Sean Wallis also joined us to complete the AFF course and is seen here ( erm sort of 🙂 doing his loop out of the porter on his level seven.

This is the last level or instructional jump you make whilst under freefall supercivision in freefall. Sean passed this jump , so his next jump will be a solo!

Alan Anderson , former student of the FFU joined us to complete some fun jumping .

Damian from the Irish Parachute Club also joined us for some fun jumping.

Ben Riding former student of the FFU returned for some more fun juming.

Nagina Shah from the UK joined us for an AFF course .

Rory Daly from Ireland who trained with us last August also joined us for an AFF course.

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Welcome to the Freefall University News for Feb 2007. We have lots of AFF courses running in Spain and also have recieved 5 further sets of equipment. This leaves us with 16 sets of Gear manufactured specifically for students learning to skydive.

One Student One Rig

We have just recieved a further 5 complete sets of Icon student containers with Navigator Main parachutes . We have an order placed for five more. Currently we have on our flight line 16 rigs for rental all aimed to cater for AFF students and low experience jumpers. If you are thinking about purchasing equipment we now have demonstration equipment available for you to try before you buy.

Welcome to Anthony O Shea  who joins us from Cork Ireland to learn to skydive.

Nancy Deverall also joined us for an AFF course.

Thomas Denial joind us for an AFF course and is pictured here in ground school.

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Welcome to Peter Thomas from Berlin who joins us to learn to skydive.

joining us are Elizabeth Schlotem who also will complete the AFF course.

No sooner arrived than into documents and ground school. From there is striaght onto level one…

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Stuart Childs joined us to complete the AFF course. Stuart is on a short break from duties in Iraq.

Patrick Wake from Bordon , Hampshire joined us for an AFF course.

Neil Carrick joined us for an AFF course. He is from Cumbria.

Adrian Onn and Giedre Domzaite joined us for an AFF course , both are from London.

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Russel Jones , joined us for an AFF course . Russell is from London

Shandor Nikitis joined us for some more skydiving you can see him here in the boarding area getting ready for another skydive.

Here you see him deply his parachute to come out of freefall for the gentle ride down to earth.

Jasvir does the same on his AFF course , here you see him on level five under the watchful eye of his instructor.

Just after exit ! Aidan is doing great and after 2 days of jumping did his first solo.

Thumbs up for you Aidan, great level 7 !

Katrina Kularia joined us for an AFF course. Katrina lives in London.

Giedre Domzaite joined us for an AFF course also and is seen here with her instructor Doctor Ulli !

Russel Jones joined us for an AFF course. Russel had some static line experience previously but had become fed up with the slow progression.

Rachel a fun jumper who popped down from London for a few jumps is pictured here making her way in from the landing area.

This is Jasvir getting ready for another skydive ( on the left ).

Welcome to the March 2007 skydiving news from Spain. Another exciting month for us with 35 AFF students expected and some space still available on our FS1 courses. We are now booked out for AFF into mid April ( 60 places filled ) so be sure to get in touch to secure last remaining April and May places ).

Aidan and Griede are delighted as they have graduated the AFF course and begin to skydive solo.

Another group gets ready to board the ” Red Porter “.

Saifee Ghadiyali joins us to complete an AFF course.

We also have a german 4 way team training from a freefall Uni associated dropzone in Berlin. ( If your ever over there check out www.gojump.de ).

Accompanying the 4 way team are a number of fun jumpers and AFF students.

Terry Purcell from the Uk joined us for a little fun jumping.

Top man Shandor Nikitis ! he is pictured here getting ready for another solo skydive having graduated the AFF course.

Lyndsey Noble who completed her AFF training in Netheravon ( UK ) has joined us to complete her consolidation training.

Louis Morrell who completed his aff skydiving course with us last year is back for some more fun jumping.

Another former graduate who jois us for some further training is Emma Lane from London.

As is Chris Buse , hes here for a few more days increasing his jump numbers and helpin to take care of his friends from London Parachute Schools ( Check them out if you live in London and would like to do a tandem skydive. )

You mean your jumping again ! Aidan isnt half hanging around , but then he hasnt much to wait for , we have lots more equipment now so everybody gets their own set of kit!

David Young also joins us to complete the AFF course.

Here is Richard Breen on his level seven.

Richard Breen and Andrew Summersell who graduated our AFF course are seen here walking in from the landing area.

Perhaps directly after the level seven , but more likey after a few solos from altitude you do your level 8 or hop and pop. Here we see Richard just about to go.

And here he is flying in the clear blue skies of the FFU geting ready for a landing. In this case he is flying one of our new Aerodyne Solo canopies.

Andrew gets ready for a coached jump and Terry Purcell is on the right getting ready for another skydive..

Here Andrew gets ready to Land after another Solo. In this case he is flying one of our new Performance Designs Navigators.

Andrew does a low solo.