Two-way from 9000 feet this morning. Dived at Mark, slightly late, then practised fore and aft movement. Very windy landing – 20 knots? – with no progress upwind on full drive. Landed gently enough though. Hoping for a cheeky one before catching the flight to Utah, but probably forlornly. What […]

It’s a peculiar little box, but it has large capacity and a ramp (image from Wikipedia): First up was a 2-way back-flip exit: you just jump out feet first facing aft and the air flips you over. Then a three-way with a fine gentleman who turned out to be an […]

An early hop and pop turned into a 10500 ft fun jump when the clouds parted: dived out, rolled over and watched the plane rise away before spinning round to look at the view and the other skydivers. Next a four-way with Mark, Pete Allum and Steve Hamilton: Steve and […]

One proper skydive – worked on leg turns – and two “hop and pops” under the cloud. One from 5000 feet with a 15 sec freefall and the other from 3500 feet, with a 5 second freefall. Which was exciting 😀 I have a vivid picture in my mind of […]

Two coached jumps, the second being an exercise in crossing above the coach from side-body to side-body. Crossing the burble is hilarious: the “lift” disappears and you collapse onto the coach or fire yourself out about 20 feet by driving aggressively off the legs. I laughed out loud 😀 Mark […]

Six jumps today: 3 coached, one fun and two two-ways with Mark. Some snaps here. To take the edge off the endless glamour and unceasing “cool”, we drank tea between jumps. Hot tea. With milk.

Four great skydives today, once the weather cleared around 11:00. One stable for familiarisation: dive exit, three practice touches, then turns and side slides to pull at 3500′. The new canopy is beautiful and flies wonderfully. I’m delighted to have a 210 sq ft canopy not a 190. The loading […]