In April, we saw things start to heat up with the temperatures in the mid to high twenties. Our skydivers were able to lose their gloves and by midday were going up for altitude jumps in shorts and t-shirts.

Formation Skydiving teams began their training preparations for this seasons competitions, Sonic V came for a 9-day training camp and are planning to come back in May - we look forward to seeing you soon!

World Class FS and Tunnel Coach Steve Hamilton came with FS Team Bonobo for a week's training. Mikey Carpenter, Adam Mattacola and Andy Newell of Team Volare Airkix came for team training.

Read on for more news on what we got up to this April and check out the photos.

Jay Stokes held an USPA Coaches and AFF Instructors rating course, with staff member Alf Batchelor and regular jumpers Steve Hogan, Pete Huskins and Tim Cooke all successfully meeting the requirements for the AFF Instructor rating.

USPA AFF Instructors Course awards ceremony outside Skydive Spain

Tim Cooke with Jay, Yogi, Steve and DZ Manager Hannah

USPA Examiner Jay awards Alf B with the AFF Instructor Rating

Steve Hogan receives his AFF Instructor rating from Jay

Pete Huskins receives his AFF instructor rating from Jay Stokes

Norwegians Borre, Morten, Anton and friends, came for some fun jumping and formation skydiving. They joined up with Yogi and Emma for this 10-way star (right).

All photos in this section by Robert K.

Norwegian's build a formation during this skydive

Celebrations all round after final load of the day!!!

10-way formation at Skydive Spain

Joss celebrates his 100th skydive by going head down.

Royal Engineers 4-way FS Training (above and left)

Jon Pilling shortly after landing from his AFF Level 5

Jonno swoops in on his Velo-74

RAF's Paul Crawford geeks the camera after successful AFF Level 8

Adam White on landing his Manta-288

Whoever say's there are no DOGS in skydiving is wrong!!

Check out the latest addition to the Skydive Spain Team - DZ Owner Hannah's new pup, Charlie!!!

Resident packer Rob, changed vehicles for his latest trip to the discotheque - this time choosing to take the Guardia Civil helicopter rather than the T-72 tank of the Polish Army.

During the last week of April, the airfield saw the arrival of 100+ light aircraft for an exhibition, before flying onto their destination in Morocco.