Day 4 AFF eval jumping

well now I have better time and battery. Wednesday was practice jumping with our examiners but as realistic as possible.

We made 3 jumps with 2 instructors  and and 3 jumps with 1 instructor. We had both students that was flying good but needed a lot of correction and help at pull time, but we also has the opposite with students “PeterK” that was falling like a brick and needed help to get stable.. This was really good practice and actually pretty funny flying. But i must say that it is hard having 6 students a day that need 110 % attention.

I finished off the day with a 4 way hop n pop in 7000 feet and flying some relative flying with Bundy Kim and another canopy flyer here. its a perfect way to end a day and with a 10 knot downwind i got to make a pretty loong superman on the grass here in Perris. After we got home to the house both Thomas and I passed out in our room. Great but tiring day.

AFF Examination day

I will run out of power very soon so this will be short

I just made 4 Examination jumps today and passed with 311% out of 300 in 4 out of 5 jumps. So i am pretty happy we just need to pass theory tomorrow and i can call my self a AFF instructor.

More details will follow when i get more battery power on my laptop…  ;o)

Day 4 Spinning students and recovering of students on their back.

Today we are handling the BAD students and our instructors have started being not so nice.. The first 3 jumps have been with students spinning out of control. Peter also mend he was going to exit the plane on he’s back so both of us were in a bad freefall position but i recovered as planned and got him back into the right body position. the 4th and last jump for me today was students spinning or unstable on there back. It was a good feeling being able to be in the right place  and be able to turn the student 3 times after  him always turning on he’s back 3 seconds after releasing the student….

Time is now 22:00 and we are watching the British AFF instructors video of the day and I just been told that we are better instructors than the experienced ones on that video.  So our confidence on the team of Danish newcomers is pretty high..

SORRY still no pic we are simply too busy to take pictures but some will come later…..

Day 2 and 3 in Perris Aff training.

Day 2 : Sunday i made 5 AFF jumps With Thomas trying different exits and bad students its was fun flying being student and instructor. After the training we had ½ an hour in the tunnel with Kenneth Gadja coaching 15 min of basic flying and 15 min of AFF specific flying.

Day 3 : Monday first day of the AFF course we started out with level 3 jumps 2 instructors and the student.. it went pretty good and today i got the medal for best progression so i guess the tunnel really helped yesterday… after 4 jumps we finished jumping and some went to the tunnel to get more coaching.. I just wanted to relax  and jumped in my swoop pantz and went for a down winder on the grass. It was my best swoop here in my 90 velo ever and swooped all of the grass area. It actually was so good my hands was shaking after the jump “and THAT is what swooping is all about “

tomorrow we are going to jump more one on one to get the more difficult students on the right course…

If i wont write tomorrow it will be because we are pretty busy here and there is limited internet access…

1. day in Perris

ahh started out early and was on the first 7 loads getting the DZ and elevation dialed in again. The pond is nice and Bundy filled it up because he knew we were arriving..

After a short break i went on 7 jumps more with Peter and Kim its so easy to see none of us have been jumping much the last few days. but we are now back in the rhythm….

after the 14 swoops i went on 2 tracking jumps with Lasse who was going to fly the Birdman Impact tracking suit for the first time he also just went on he’s jump nr  100. Nicely done Lasse..

Tomorrow will be training for the AFF course and ½ an hour of tunnel with Kenneth as Coach…

California here I come again.

Its been a while since i Blogged last time but nothing really happened weather’s been bad and i only got around 20 jumps since Africa.

But now i am sitting here in a Boeing 747-400  again on my way to Los Angeles (Perris valley) again. The plan this time is to get settled in tonight, Get a full day of swooping tomorrow and then start with the AFFi training. I also Booked Kenneth Gadja to give me some tunnel training Sunday night, so i hopefully will be fit for fight, When Peter and Kim is going to mess around with us Monday to Friday and hope fully make the next 4 Danish AFF instructors out of us.

I am also really hoping for Performance engineering to get my RDS slider brought here to CA. I ordered it about 3 month ago but some mishaps happened and i still haven’t seen anything of it. Hopefully i will get some Pic to add tomorrow but for now this is it.

GPS setup a new way of swooping

The weather is getting more and more crazy here in Europe. That was also the case in the time after Christmas here in Denmark. We wanted the last jumps of the year and the pond was frozen so we really wanted to skydive and swoop the pond.

This day the clouds was a thick layer from 900 ft to 2000 ft, and above there was beautiful blue sky all the way up. So we got up and made a GPS spot and jumped out 500 m from the pond. Wearing a Foretrex 201 I was able to do my setup like I use to but still I was not able to see the pond until 5-7 sec before starting my turn in 750 ft. so it was pretty exiting. On the first jump I was a little too close on my setup point so didn't get the right angle to the pond but made a nice Lacy boy

On my second jump the pilot was a little late on the exit so got out on the wrong side of the pond so had to morrow the setup but its still pretty easy on the GPS its showing the direction to the pond on a Compass rose, the distance to the pond "waypoint" and the time with my current speed is also shown so its actually possible to calculate a pretty good setup. I have used it before but not under this real conditions. Normally I have been able to cheat because I could see the pond.

Of cause its not recommended to jump these conditions but sometimes you just got to jump and then its nice to know that the technology is there to help us. The most important thing!!! We got to swoop the frozen pond.

And just for those that don't have a GPS you can always just jump out below the clouds. (With a T-10)