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Latest News -
February
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Skydive Spain is a
successful skydiving centre. We are proud of all our
students as they pass through our courses and want
to give testimonials of their experiences with us.
We also have many
experienced jumpers coming over to visit. Some are
here for team training, some for holidays and some
want to take part in seasonal boogies.
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28th February
2007 -
Tube skydive |
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Patricia, Jacobo and
Diego plan their tube exit from the Finist. When
done well, these skydives end up flying at an
incredibly high speed and look similar to a donut in
the sky! |
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26th February
2007 - Socialising in the Bar |
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Alec Flint and Sarah Fletcher
turned up for a week's worth of fun jumping. |
Lee Armstrong
qualified for his FS1 on his third day of the FS1
course - congratulations! |
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25th February
2007 - Sunday's jumping |
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Hannah Swallow is one the
operators at Skydive Spain. Seen here packing she has to
organise everything from fuel, opening up, coaching, AFF, team
training,
military expeds,
supplies and even the paperwork.
Local jumper Patricia was on the
first load of the day at 9am. We couldn't believe our eyes
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Austrians using the huge packing
area.
2006 British Freefly Champions,
Outbreak, team training. |
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24th February
2007 -
Weekend sky diving in
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The weather was fantastic this
Saturday and we completed 21 SMG loads, here's a load full of
our Spanish regulars, 5 of which completed AFF with us.
Ole Hjelle (Norwegian 4way
Champion) brings groups of tandems to Skydive Spain. This
Saturday he brought 7 students to keep Jonno and Alex busy.
Daz Tyrer, Tyrone Grundy returned
with Rich Bell for some Freeflying. Rich and Tyrone have taken
advantage of 'Outbreak' on the DZ, hiring Jim and Mikey for
coaching. Martin Reynolds also arrived at for 3 days of sunny
jumping. |
Christine Knowles
and Lee Armstrong arrived for the FS1 course. Bego
and Sally took them under their wings for FS
development.
Our Spanish USPA
instructors can be seen here teaching Antonio for
Level 1. |
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23rd February
2007 |
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Jonno took some shots
out in the landing area of the Austrians, Manfred
and Mikey.
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21st February
2007 - Socialising in the Bar |
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Manfred and his
friends led us all astray and took us to a new bar
in Bollullos. Manfred has been at Skydive Spain
since the 15th of February. Take a look at more of
his pictures below.
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20th February
2007 -
General shots |
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Group shot of various skydivers at
the weekend. |
Ian Brown and Stuart
Tait.
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18th February
2007 - Pete Roberts completes his 10th Consolidation
jump |
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Jim Harris tries a swoop and swig
– but sin of all sins, the beer ends up on the landing area …..
next time Jim. |
Pete Roberts (left)
completes his 10th consol and bought the obligatory
crate of beer for the achievement, he is seen here
receiving a big kiss from girlfriend Jo Lammens.
Carlos Blanco (our
friendly Seville Air Traffic Controller) came to
jump with his friend David and one of our
instructors, Alex on glorious Sunday. |
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18th February
2007 - Daniele Basttistini does a Tandem Parachute
Jump |
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An Italian, Daniele
Basttistini, now living in Seville did a tandem
skydive on Sunday, "It was incredible. Just
sensational, like flying…I can't believe it !!!"
David Fuglesoy is a
teacher at a language school in Jerez and likes to
take the students our on activities. He brought 6
Norwegian students for a Tandem skydive this Sunday,
they all took home a DVD of their fantastic
experience.
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17th February
2007 - Wind Tunnel training with John and Steve |
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Bego (one of our AFF
instructors) and her husband Manolo took 3 of our
regular jumpers, who qualified AFF with us, to the
Bedford wind tunnel last weekend. They all learned
loads and flew approx. 1.5 hours each. They are seen
here with Steve Hamilton and John McIver (members of
Sebastian XL - British Champions). |
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15th February
2007 - Ryan Washburn and Anthony Dewoolf |
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Ryan Washburn and
Anthony Dewoolf, 2 American lads from the USA Naval
Base, Rota came for a tandem skydive and went
surprisingly quiet in the aircraft! Nice one boys,
glad you enjoyed the experience.
Manfred Art brought a
group of Austrians to the DZ. 7 of them arrived on
Wednesday and another 2 more came on Thursday.
(Manfred, Alex, Gunter, Martin, Martin, Gerald,
Andy, Rainer and Klaus) Their aim to do 8 jumps a
day for 3 weeks. We will let you know how they get
on.
Manfred runs a DZ in Austria in the summer and his
group of merry men have an excellent sense of
t-shirt humour.
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9th February
2007 - Olaf Blakely |
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Olaf Blakely arrived
for 2 weeks on 9th Feb. He has been to us before and
returned for some FF coaching from Jim Harris. He
has also teamed up with Jill Duncan for some fun
jumping also. Jill has started jumping again after
an 8 month lay off.
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February
2007 - Packer Alberto |
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You may wonder how the parachutes are packed. The
answer is safely. We employ several parachute
packers who carefully maintain and prepare our
parachutes for action. |
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9th February
2007 - Jo Lammens |
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The eternally busy Jim Harris & Mike Carpenter from
Outbreak have been coaching Jo Lammens, over from
Portugal with consol student Pete Roberts, and
returning jumper Olaf Blakeley.
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10th February
2007 - Jacobo celebrates his 100th jump |
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Local jumper Jacobo only started jumping a few
months ago. His enthusiasm and commitment have now
seen his first 100 jumps. It is therefore a
tradition in the sport to buy everyone a drink or 2
to celebrate!
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February
2007 |
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We would like to
welcome AFF student Joe McGirr who came to do a full
course from the 9th to 12th of February. He managed
to do 5 of his levels in a really short space of
time. We hope to see him soon to finish off his
course. |
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8th February
2007 |
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AFF student Rolando
here with instructors Alex and Bego. Learn more
about our
Accelerated Freefall course.
Rolando comes from the
US army and
is on a short break from Hawaii. Both Rolando and
his girlfriend plan to return soon to finish their
sky diving courses. |
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10th February
2007 - Tandem parachuting group |
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We would like to welcome a large tandem group here
on the 10th of February. They come from the Air
Traffic Control centre in Sevilla.
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10th February
2007 - Our new SMG-92 arrives |
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Ian our CCI stands in front of the new SMG-92. There
are now 2 of these in our fleet and they are turbine
powered. This particular aircraft has an even more
powerful engine taking jumpers to 15,000ft in around
13 minutes. |
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