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Latest News - October 2006

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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24th October - Ray Armstrong and family

Ray Armstrong and his wife Allie joined us with their 2 lovely children from Tuesday 24th October. They are pictured here as the middle 3 people.

23rd October - Liam and Kieron Flynn

Liam & Kieron Flynn arrived from Ireland on 23rd October for a few days of FS coaching. Unfortunately the weather was not so great for their short trip, but we managed to get them in the air all the same!!

21st October - Ralph and Anne Fielding

Ralf and Anne have visited us before. He they are again for more fun jumps.

21st October - Nicky Johnson and Clair Armstrong

Nicky Johnson is a well known skydiver, instructor and helicopter pilot. He arrived at Skydive Spain for some fun jumps with Clair Armstrong.

17th October - Katie Kohnen

In the last of our new staff additions this month, we welcome Katie Kohnen from Chicago.

16th October - Bego gets her AFF rating

Bego Lopez (seen here on the left) is another regular jumper with Skydive Spain. She has just qualified with her AFF rating. One of her first customers is Spanish student, Ahmed Tredano.

15th October - Duarte gets his Tandem sky diving rating

Duarte Casa Nova has been a regular skydive at Skydive Spain for many years. Recently he decided to go for his Tandem Instructor rating which he passed. In these pictures you can see him with cameraman Jim Harris and some of his new students.

15th October - Jackobo

Another recent AFF Spanish graduate, this time of instructor Monolo, is Jackobo. He is now concentrating on his FS coaching which he is also doing with Monolo.

13th October - RAF Expedition

We would like to welcome another RAF expedition. They came from the 13th to 28th October. All 9 AFF students completed Levels 1 - 8 in 3.5 jumping days.
Congratulations to Rich Lewis, Rick Harrap, Robbie Mullany, Katie White, Dean Medhurst, David Graham, Louise Buxton & Jon Purchase, we hope to see you all again soon for a re-match in the pump bar!!

6th October - Wolfie

Wolfie is an FS coach and brought a group of 3 to the centre for some coaching.

5th October - Ian Nichols and Alan Smith

Ian Nicholson seen here with Jim Harris has been working on his freefly skills. His friend Alan Smith is also over for some FS jumping. Ian already has his FF1, but wanted to concentrate on his head-up work and completed 10 one-on-one jumps. They leave us on the 8th.

1st October - Rezzie

Rezzie is a well known packer who has travelled to many dropzones. Over the summer, she spent some time at Target Skysports in the UK. She is replacing Polish Robert for a few weeks whilst he has return to Poland to visit family.

1st October - Iwen

Iwen is another experienced jumper visiting from Portugal this month.

1st October - Eder our new pilot

Eder is one of the new pilots being trained by Steve Swallow at the moment. He will fly one of our turbine fleet.

1st October - Tag Pulham

Jonno Horne in a special landing!

Tag Pulham has been establish in UK skydiving circles for a long time. This is his first trip to Skydive Spain and as you can see, he is a keen photographer.

A nice 4-way

An another 3-way from our SMG.

1st October - Pete Hahnefeld and family

Pete H known affectionately to his friends in the UK is a formation skydiving camera man. Until now, his children knew little about his sport. That was until his son, Dan completed his AFF course with Stacy. Another friend, Pip who was is a seasoned 4-way competitor also joined the group.

(Photo by Tag Pulham)

1st October - Gayle McLaren

We welcome Gayle McLaren over to Skydive Spain. Gayle is an experienced parachutist from New Zealand and is staying in the area for 3 weeks. She has about 50 jumps and is into formation skydiving.