Oct 29
Oct 29
Almost but not quite ! But for sure worth a mention , check out Sylvester who trained with us as an AFF student 2 years ago back for more on this dive. He has learned to sit and attempted to stand on this hybrid dive.
Oct 29
What a total success ! We completed 60 freefly loads in 4 days and people are already asking when we run the next camp here in Spain or Portugal ( watch this space ) . The fastest and most powerful porter in Spain ( -34 ) provided excellent service to the skydivers getting them up to altitude in a little over 10 minutes. ( Louis H think of Godzilla on steriods ! ) Sweet our newest expansion effort is paying off. Thanks to Mike and Paula for their hard work to organise it and dedication to taking care of all participants so that it could be an experience to remember for all involved. Lastly of course thanks to our participants from the Madrid area, Germany and the UK you made it a total blast both in the sky and on the ground. Check out this summary video.
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Oct 29
We are already chatting with Mark Zessin ( former AFF student and now a dropzone owner ) to organise the ” Dubai Boogie 2009 ” in the UAE. When we saw this video along with some of the footage from our birdman team we knew it was something we had to do.
Oct 27
Oct 25
We said goodbye to ” Charlie Papa ” our third porter which was a -20 Turbine as it doesnt fit with the philosophy of the dropzone due to its speed . We are pleased to support Skydive Lillo leasing it to them. This means we are reduced to 2 full time Porters but no worries … Today we flew 45 full loads in our 34 s and the average climb rate to 13000feet was 2000 fpm ( no bull ! ) , its a rocketship and by far the fastest in Spain. Perhaps this is because its not limited in anyway in power . In any event the freefly event is going along great with a ton of Spanish and UK skydivers taking advantage of our load organising and coaching. All our AFF students graduated and our returning guests from recent AFF courses got in the fun jumps also. It was really nice to see the 2 aircraft work so well together , thanks to Aimee´s hard but very efficent work in the manifest. We didnt notice that the dropzone did 50 tandems today also as there were virtually no wait times.
The coming days will see more freefly training camp days and also 15 people take part in our AFF Instructors programme from the “ Instructors Academy ” . During the next 2 weeks our delegates will be go through the USPA coach and AFF instructors programme . Our philosophy in these courses is simple , to ensure top quality instruction for qualified candidates and to ensure the costs are appropriate, we dont agree with the price inflation that has seen people pay in excess of 1000 euros for a ” few ” skydives. We will have regular AFF Academy weeks in both Madrid and …. due to recruiting an AFF course director to the team. Wanne be an AFF instructor but scared of the cost ? Give us a call..
Oct 24
Congratulations to Thomas Lee who completed his AFF Course with us here at the FFU Spain.