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September 2009
Skydive Spain is pleased to announce that one of it's fleet of Dornier G92's - a twin turbine aircraft reaching an altitude of 15,000ft in under 13 minutes - is based permanently at Skydive Spain for the spring and summer season.

This month's newsletter was provided by Jonno Horne, Skydive Spain resident FAA Master Rigger, BPA Rigger, USPA and BPA AFF, Static Line, Tandem and IAD Instructor. BPA and USPA FS Coach and Canopy Coach. USPA S&TA. JAA private pilot. Cycling proficiency holder. 100m Swimming badge.

Read on for more of what's been happening at our DZ this month.

 
 
Photo News
Updated Sept 28th 2009 Funshine finishes and G Fly starts.

After funshine the dust has begun to settle. And we can count what jump numbers people did in the 5 days of funshine. Most jumpers arrived early and stayed on a few days afterwards to get as much sun and jumping as possible.

Alex Murphy 38
Amelia Walters 31
Ana Lucaci 34
Andy Richardson 36
Arild Sveinsvoll 35
Bogdan Boeru 35
Dany Marjenski 35
Diego Nusiner 35
Dragos Boeru 37
Duncan Aspinal 37
Ed Sweetman 29
Glen Phillips 37
Hareth Abdulla 39
Heidi Roeberg 32
Holly Kilham 35

 

Mark Owen after landing by Mikey Carpenter

Mishka Landing probably with good hair.

Mikey Carpenter briefs another group tracking dive

Sunset load at Skydive Spain. Still 27 deg..! And the bar is open

Amy, Ross and Tom after finishing their AFF course. Celebrating with a few beers and watching the sunset loads land.

Alina Sime and Ovidius Solomov from Romania after landing. They are walking back to the padded packing area in the first hangar of Skydive Spain.

Justin Thwaites 29
Kjelle Svanes 36
Mark Owen 36
Nigel Page 38
Ricky Wheeler 37
Sara Erikson 35
Sissi Peccolo 25
Tom Haland 37
Tom Corcoran 37
Andri Steimann 35
Matti Kaukonen 37
Justin Roberts 36
Rachel Aspey 30
Alejandra Migueles 30
Allan Eastwood 21
Anthea Hamson 35
Fred Unold 37

This Septembers Funshine was truly a Multi national event with skydivers coming from England, Romania, Italy, France, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, South Africa, Finland, Holland and Germany.

All of the above participants were coached on all skydives by the best of the best freeflyers in Europe. The progression of everyone in 5 days was truly outstanding.

Mark Owen Tracking by Mikey Carpenter

Big thanks to Skydive Spain DZ owner Hannah Swallow for hosting the funshine event and also a big thanks to Mark Owen of funshine fame for organising 36 participants and 6 fantastic coaches. After Funshine finished MArk took a well earned rest and spent the day at the local beach soaking up the sun. Above and left you can see Mark after his day off doing some 1 on 1 jumping with Mikey Carpenter of Volare.

We are eagerly awaiting the Next funshine event. If you want to be involved then contact Mark at Funshineboogie.com

Alberto Fuertes one of the Funshine coaches. Alberto's team Volare came second at this years Body flight world challenge and first at the World cup held in Czech. Alberto is from Spain but now lives in Bedford and speaks English fluently.

Kristian one of the Funshine coaches landing. Kristian is part of the Skywalkers Norwegian national freefly team has thousands of jumps and speaks English better than the English.

Bego and Manolo on the left of the picture above have organised another 2 day FS basic camp for anybody who wants to join in. They all completed 10 jumps each all coached, videoed and debriefed. If you want to be involved on the next camp then please contact Skydive Spain.

Updated Sept 25th 2009  

Above and below you can see the jumpers onboard the Dornier twin turbine aircraft on their way to 15,000ft (4600m) in 12 minutes

Hareth Abdulla looking in full control with the tube.

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Sunset load in the landing area. Today we did 27 loads. And to make the sunset load even better a crate of beer waiting in the landing area.! Congrats to Glenn's 1000th jump. How did you survive all those jumps..?

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DZ General Manager Andrew Lovemore on the Sunset load landing.

Photo by Holly Kilam

Even at sunset it is 25 deg. Half an hour after this photo was taken there was a barbeque in full swing on the DZ with 60 hungry skydivers eating and drinking. At the end of each day we have an end of day video so we can check out each others jumps. We welcome footage from all the jumpers.

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Beautiful sunset after the last load. Photo by Holly Kilam

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Ross Tully has come for an AFF course. Ross did an AFF course about 7 years ago in the military. He only had 20 jumps so we did a few hours ground instruction with him and then did an AFF level three then a five and seven. He is now continuing following our BPA system to gain his A licence.

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Rachael Aspey and Amelia Walters chilling in the sun in between jumps.

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Rachael Aspey, Andrew Lovemore and Mark Owen on an organised head up jump. Photo by Holly Kilam

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Andrew Lovemore Skydive Spain's General Manager coming in to land. I bet he saw this beer from opening height..!

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Sunset load fly bye..! Skydive Spain jump in the sun.! Photo by Holly Kilam

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More tube tastic jumps. Funshineboogie.com Photo By Andrew Lovemore

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so and so have come from Morocco to do some jumping. They are hiring parachute equipment from the centre.

We have a large equipment store for people to hire kit. Our canopies range in size from 300 sq ft to 170 sq ft. And if you are interested in buying your own parachute then contact the office for advice and assistance.

Kristian Moxnes leading a tracking dive

Mikey Carpenter with a head down organised group.

Kristian's group waiting to board the Dornier.

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Fabian and DZ General manager Andrew Lovemore setting the pace in the base for a large head up group jump. Today is shorts and t'shirt weather. With 28 deg on the ground come and jump in the sun..! Photo by Holly Kilam

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I love this photo. Here you can see Anthea, Ed Sweetman and Sarah Erickson. You can see how seriously Anthea is taking this skydive..!FunshineBoogie.com Photo by Holly Kilam

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Nice Train guys..! Photo by Holly Kilam

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A three tube jump. Holding the tubes we have Kijel, funshine Mark and Dany. We have to stagger the break off and have the three tubes pull at slightly different altitudes. Keeping hold of the tube whilst deploying takes some BALLS and allot of experience..!

Photo by Andrew Lovemore

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DZ General Manager Andrew Lovemore organises a head up group jump. You can see Sarah Erickson, Rachel Aspey, Mark Owen and Amelia Walters. Photo By Holly Kilam.

Looking good Mark. It looks like he is holding onto Rachel's helmet for stability. A new funshine technique.

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Hareth Abdulla, Amelia Walters on exit at 15,000ft.

Photo By Holly Kilam

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Even the pilots get to play at Skydive Spain. Eder has a few days off and uses his time wisely to get some great coaching.

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Tom Haland, Andy Richardson and Arild Sveinsvoll. Just about to do some wingsuiting. From 15000ft (4600m) you can get 2 minutes freefall with a wingsuit.

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Tube jumps rock..! with the tubes flying the other jumpers can carve around them, or just sit and enjoy the fun. By Holly Kilam

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Ok who is next for AFF..? Please don't get too far away. I wont find you again..

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Ross and Amy chilling in the DZ pool before the next jump.

Actualizado el 22/09/2009 El Funshineboogie ya está aquí

Empieza el Funshine Boogie. Les damos la bienvenida a Skydivespain a los 36 participantes que por 5 días, disfrutarán de este festival. El grupo empieza con una sesión informativa el sábado en la mañana bendecidos con el mejor clima de Europa. De naciente a poniente, cielo azul y suaves vientos. Skydivespain, salta en el sol.

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Mark Owen con algunos Funshine Boogies realizados..!

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El grupo de Mike después del salto de ocaso en la zona de aterrizaje.

Después de que esta foto fuera tomada todo el mundo se alegró con muchas cervezas en el bar….

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El grupo de Andy Lovemore antes de embarcar la Dornier para subir a 15000 pies (4600m)

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Mikey, Amelia, Rachael and Mark.

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El grupo de Fabian antes del próximo salto Funshine.

Después del tercer día todavía estamos a 30 grados de temperatura

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Caminando de vuelta al hanger de empaque

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Jim organizando un salto de deriva.

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Saltando con los dos tubos del Funshine y uno de Skydivespain.

Photo de Andrew Lovemore

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Apretada salida para el salto con tres tubos.

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Dragos y Bogdan

Twin Turbine Dornier

Mikey organizando una salida con Hareth, Mark, Nigel, Ricky y Fred.

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Análisis del vídeo del salto en una de nuestras pantallas 42 pulgadas.

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Kristian analizando el salto del grupo. Durante estas sesiones, los entrenadores les muestran las correctas y últimas técnicas para mejorar cada salto. De este modo ellos pueden realizar el mismo salto para  practicar el aprendizaje recibido.

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Rachel y Holly después de aterrizar.

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Funshiner ascendiendo a 15000 pies (4600m) en solo 12 minutos en nuestra Dornier doble turbine.

Mark Owen, el famoso organizador del Funshine Boogie, ha reclutado a algunos de los mejores entrenadores de freefly de Europa, para guiar y mejorar las técnicas de los 36 participantes escogidos. Tenemos a Kristian Moxnes de los Skywalkers, que han ganado la medalla de plata en los pasados mundiales de freefly en Taiwan. Asimismo, Alberto Fuertes y Mike Carpenter ganadores de la Copa mundial de freefly celebrada en República Checa. Andrew Lovemore, nuestro manager del centro e instructor de tunel. Fabian Raidel, quien se ha hecho con la medalla de oro del body flight campeonato del mundo y por último el teniente del equipo Outbreak freefly.

Fabian Rydel     Alberto Fuertes

                  Fabian Rydel                               Alberto Fuertes

Andrew Lovemore    

                 Andrew Lovemore                            Jim Harris

Christian Moxnes      Mikey Carpenter

Kristian Moxnes                           Mikey Carpenter

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Sissi y Andri después de aterrizar

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Anthea y Will Smith después de aterrizar.

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Andy Lovemore y Mishka después de aterrizar. Bonito pelo Mishka!!

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Fabian, Dragos y Andy

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Mark, Fred y Hareth

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El grupo de Kristian después de un salto deriva.

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Funshiners empacando en nuestra acolchada zona de plegado.

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Dragos, Bojden, Arif y Pete relajándose un rato.

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Holly y Mishka después de aterrizar. Esta vez tú pelo está mejor Mishka.

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Jim organizando un gran grupo para derivar. La mitad volando de espalda y la mitad de cara al suelo.

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Todos los participantes junto a nuestra Dornier doble turbine.

Este es el Funshine más concurrido hasta el momento. Bien hecho Mark Owen y el equipo de Skydive Spain por hacerlo posible. No olviden el próximo evento!

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Salto ocaso con tres tubos. By Andrew Lovemore

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Embarcando la Dornier para 12 minutos de ascenso a 15000 pies (4600m)

 

Actualizado el 20/09/2009  

AFF courses

Claire está con nosotros para hacer su curso AFF. Ella es francesa y reside en Marruecos. Claire empezó su curso en Marruecos y ha venido a terminarlo en Sevilla. Salta en el sol en Skydive Spain

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Le damos la bienvenida a Roy, Ryan y Greg que han venido a hacer su curso AFF. Ellos han tenido 6 horas de teórica con nuestra instructora Bego antes de prepararse para su salto nivel 1.

Anna Howersky visita Skydive Spain. Anna es representante de United Parachut Technologies (UPT) y ha traido un equipo para hacer demostración del sistema Skyhook. Si posees la licencia B y 200 saltos puedes probar los tres sistemas y liberar el principal en perfectas condiciones, solo para divertirte.

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Aqui tenemos a Richard y Amy disfrutando del sol en nuestras nuevas tumbonas. Hoy estamos a 30 grados con vientos suaves.

Amy ha terminado su curso de AFF y completado 5 saltos de consolidación. Todavía le quedan otros 5 para obtener la licencia A.

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Sandi y Dave regresando a saltar después de terminar su curso de AFF.

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Marcus está en Skydive Spain para realizar un curso de entrenador e instructor de AFF por la USPA. Aquí podemos ver a Michi, Kathy y Marcus durante un descanso de la fase teórica.

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Roy, Ryan y Greg viendo los aterrizajes en Skydive Spain

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Aquí tenemos a el instructor Pete con Greg antes del salto nivel 4. El nivel 4 es el primero que se realiza con un solo instructor. Buena suerte Greg.

Actualizado el 17/09/2009  

Despedimos a Olly y Jamie. Jamie regresa a su trabajo en Reino Unido y Olly pasará la siguiente semana en la costa andaluza con su novia. Los dos se van con su licencia A de la BPA, reconocida mundialmente. No lo olvides, si quieres obtener tu licencia BPA (British Parachute Association), tiene que ser firmada por un Instructor Avanzado. Afortunadamente en Skydive Spain tenemos un Instructor Avanzado BPA residente.

Le damos la bienvenida a Graeme y Liam que vienen del centro de paracaidismo Cark, en Reino Unido. Liam está aquí saltando su propio equipo y Graeme esta es 10 segundos de caída libre, en el curso de línea estática. Los pueden ver arriba con Andy Lovemore, (encargado del centro) y Ainoa Boyd (manifestadora).)

Le damos la bienvenida a Amy Mottram a nuestro curso de AFF. En estos momentos se la ve en la teórica con nuestro encargado Andy Lovemore. Amy endrá unas 6 horas de teoría antes de saltar su nivel 1 con dos cualificados instructores. Arriba podemos ver a Andy enseñándole a Amy como funciona un paracaídas. Andy está usando una mini réplica de paracaídas para ayudar su enseñanza. El paracaídas cuenta con Slider, bandas, mandos, líneas A,B,C,D,

líneas de mando, container de principal, pilotillo y sistema de liberación, igual que un paracaídas real. Con Skydive Spain cuentas con un servicio completo y otras muchas ventajas.

Salta en el sol. Skydivespain.com

Hasta pronto Graeme y Liam. Graeme vino a continuar con su curso de línea estática, el cual ha terminado obteniendo también su licencia A BPA y haciendo un montón de saltos después. Los dos regresan a Skydive Spain para el Christmas Boogie que empieza el 19 de diciembre próximo. Ahora retornan a su centro Cark en Reino Unido. La jefa diciéndoles.. Gracias por su visita chicos!

Hedy haciendo un trabajo peligroso…!

Le decimos hasta pronto a Hedy, ella vuela de regreso a Holanda. También ella se va con su licencia A después de completar su curso y los 10 saltos de consolidación. Arriba la pueden ver aprendiendo a plegar el paracaídas de Pete…! Esperamos que tengas seguro Pete..!

Arriiba (por Andy Lovemore) y abajo nuestro equipo de VR4 residente Bollullos XL. El equipo esta compuesto por Manolo Márquez (organizador de salto de Skydive Spain), Bego López (organizadora de salto e instructora), Hannah Swallow (Dueña del Centro e instructora) y Rafa Menéndez.

Skydive Spain es ahora un centro patrocinado por Vigil. Arriba pueden ver al equipo con algunas unidades Vigil frente a nuestra Dornier doble turbina. Todos nos sentimos más seguros con estos ángeles guardianes.

 

Se acerca el Funshine..!

Updated Sept 16th 2009

Manolo getting another group organised.

Olly after landing

Jamie coming into land

Sandy.... Always smiling even under pressure

Above and below is Laura with instructors Jonno and Andy, She is at Skydive Spain to try the level 1 of an AFF course. After the level 1 she can then decide if she wants to do any more jumping.

"Ok Olly lets have a chat about that last skydive..!"

Sandy doing a gear check before boarding the Dornier to 15,000ft (3600m).

 

 

September starts with a beautiful weekend of the 5th and 6th at Skydive Spain. The skies were wall to wall blue and the wind was light. Our very own Twin Turbine Dornier returned from our sister dropzone in the UK Target Skysports (Hibaldstow) after a busy month flying at the British nationals, UKS boogie and a 60 way event.

We welcome back our regular jumpers who spent the weekend organising some FS and FF jumps. Along with a hand full of Tandems and the start of some AFF courses.

Manolo and Oliver after visiting the opticians

Pete, Jonno, Olly, Hedy, Hannah, Bego, Sandy, Sissi, Andy, Jamie, David and Francisco.

Early this month we welcome Olly and Jamie both Airline pilots onto our AFF course.

We also welcome Hedy from Holland, David from Liverpool in the UK and Sandi from France all here to do the AFF course. You can see them all in the above picture before boarding the Dornier to get to 15,000ft (4500m).

Olly landing

All five AFF students have completed 6 hours of ground instruction before boarding the Aircraft with two instructors to do the level 1 skydive. As a brief description of the AFF course, it consists of 8 Levels usually 1 jump per level.

The first three levels are with 2 instructors and the next 4 levels are with only 1 instructor and the final level is a solo jump. After level 8 you then complete 10 solo jumps from 15,000ft which gives you your "A" licence. The "A" licence is recognised throughout the world, so you can visit any dropzone around the world and jump on your own.

As I write this Olly is on level 3, Jamie is on level 4, Hedy is on level 5 and Flying ahead of the group is David and Sandi on level 6. By tomorrow all 5 students should have finished level 8 and started solo jumping. Skydive Spain is one of the only dropzones in the world that can almost guarantee you the weather as it is the best in all of Europe.

Above you can see the AFF students having their morning refresher brief, today given by Andy Lovemore and Pete Huskins. You can see them all wearing pretend parachutes so that they can practice opening their main parachutes and practice their emergency procedures.

David, Jonno Olly, Jamie and Andy after landing.

Jamie, Hedy and Olly with their instructors.

The tables have turned for our AFF students now. Jamie has stretched ahead of the others and finished level 8. David and Sandy are on level 7 and Olly and Hedy are on level 6.

Jamie and Olly doing an equipment check before gearing up for a solo skydive from 15000ft (3600m).

 

Updated Sept 14th 2009    

 

Paul and Andy getting a DZ brief from Andy Lovemore before jumping for the first time at Skydive Spain.

Paul dressed in our new equipment ready to board the aircraft.

Above is Sissi and Francisco after landing. Francisco took 2 years out of the sport and has now returned. He did a few hours ground school with Sissi before jumping with her to make sure he still remembered how to skydive.! Welcome back Francisco.

Instructor Pete on landing

Jonno swooping the wind blades.

 

 

 

We welcome back Julietta above who has come to carry on fun jumping. If you want some guaranteed weather then come to Skydive Spain. We have one of the fastest climbing and comfortable Aircraft in Europe.

And for those who don't know it, Skydive Spain and our sister dropzone Hibaldstow in the UK are the only DZs in Europe who go to 15,000ft (3600m) on every load..! That's 3,000ft higher than most other places. If you think about it you get another quarter of a skydive free each jump, or a free skydive every 4 jumps..! You can't argue with those figures..! Jump in the sun skydivespain.com

Francisco, Pete and John on board the Dornier ready to fly to 15,000ft in a mere 12 minutes.

Above is John about to do a coach jump with Pete. John is only 5'4"(1.6m)

Jonno Landing after an AFF jump

Here are the new wind blades from AAD Vigil, we use the wind blades in the landing area as decoration and to give us an indication of the wind direction for landing.

AAD Vigil are the manufacturer of the Vigil 2 AAD (Automatic Activation Device). Your Vigil 2 is your guardian angel when skydiving. If you were accidently knocked unconscious or were unable to open your main or reserve parachutes the Vigil 2 will automatically open the reserve as your last resort.

Updated Sept 12th 2009    

 

Skydive Spain puts new latest technology student equipment on line ready to jump.

Skydive Spain has bought new student equipment, we now have Vector SEs containers with Navigator main canopies, PD reserve canopies and Vigil 2 AADs. This equipment is state of the art and specially designed for student progression.

Our Vector containers are all fitted with Skyhook RSLs for the fastest reserve deployment, Colins lanyards for added security, totally protected reserve and main pins to be freefly friendly and greater security whilst moving around in the aircraft.

Our Navigator main canopies range is 300, 280, 260, 240 and 220 square feet, this means we can take a huge range of different body shapes and sizes for AFF courses. Also during and after your AFF course you can downsize through our student and hire range to excel your learning.

Our PD reserve canopies are a truly tested reserve. PD have many years of experience manufacturing reserve canopies. PD have tested their reserve canopies with thousands of successful live deployments, we had no problem choosing PDs reserve.

Our new equipment is fitted with Vigil 2 AADs. the Vigil 2 is the most advanced AAD on the market today. The multi mode Vigil 2 for Pro, Student and Tandem was an obvious choice for Skydive Spain as it gives us the versatility and insurance we needed in an AAD.

You can see the number of the rig and the size of the main canopy written on the dust cover. So there will be no confusion to what type of equipment you are wearing.

Also on the right riser of the kit above you can see the small yellow tag, which when disconnected from the riser disconnects the skyhook, Colins landyard and RSL in one move..!

   

Vigil 2 your guardian Angel

New colour coordinated Navigator main canopies

Here you can see our new student equipment being used for the first time.

 

Updated Sept 10th 2009    

 

Congrats to our sponsored team Volare who have taken the gold medal in Artistic freefly at the Skydiving World cup in Czech. Volare prove yet again that they are a world class team. Volare triumphed against 7 other teams on the world stage, winning by a huge gap of 5.8 points to their nearest rival the French.

Volare trained at Skydive Spain 3 times so far in 2009. If you want to be coached by our champions then get in contact with us HERE.

   

 

Satori (left) have just triumphed at the ESL finals at our sister DZ, Skydive Hibaldstow.  Finishing with a 21.3 average which was 2.5 points average higher then the next team.  Round 3 saw them achieve 35 points in 35 seconds.    Satori will be continuing their team training with us for their 2009/2010 season and have also started their Satori Academy events in October with a 1-on-1 camp.

 
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