JUMP LOG 2007
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Like last year, I will try to keep you informed of our jumping activities with a small web-log. Nothing fancy, just some info how and what we did in the sky (Note that the latest info is on top) The end for 2007 Althought it is now the last day of november, and we still have one month to go in 2007, CaTo can saveley say that jumping is over for this month. Cold, wet and now taking time for family and friends :-) It was a good ear, with more jumps then expected, good jumps and nice two-ways. We had fun in the windtunnel, I had fun in my last jumps of this year participating in the 9-way scramble. Next year we will start when weather permits (usualy end of march). We already made one 'date': the two of us will participate as coaches at the Rubberducky boogy @ Teuge (May 16-18, see this link for more info in due time. See you anyplace anytime anywhere!! October 20 And now for something completely different: this saturday, I was on my own, and decided to join the 9-way scramble (FS!!!) competition @Teuge. Each of the teams would be constructed with people from three different categories: cat 1 : <100 FS jumps cat 2 : >100, <500 FS jumps cat 3 : >500 jumps well... I could compete in every category :-) having <10 FS jums all togethe in the last 4 years, having in total some 350 FS jumps, and in total having >1350 jumps (so >1000 CRW jumps :-) I do not know in which catergory i was, but I had LOTS OF FUN joining in three jumps. At the end, our team was second (hey hey for team-BRrrrrrrrrr) it was very cold, but it was definitly fun and to be repeated! see the video of the day via the web site of Teuge <link> and some photo's to the right -> October 11-14 Still enyoing our holiday, with splendit sunny weather for october, so we travelled again to Teuge and continued our two-way training jumps. Again using the recorder, and we are almost at an 8 point average (using the german-CF2 draw). In four days we made 15 jumps, under blue skies and during a great students-precission-event@ teuge. October 4-5 And finally our holiday could start. Having some luck with over 50 tandems on a Friday, we could take the ride and made 4 jumps, most from 9000. With a new simple trick, we can now also count our points in the two-way: I fly with an audio-recorder, and recording each grip by shouting 'grip' :-) On Saturday we made only 2 jumps: the fog was very persistent. But the overall score on both days was good: we had fun, and made a 7-point average. October 2nd We were supposed to drive to Gransee (germany) and make some video and coaching jumps at the cumulus convention (this year: cumulus WR selection) but unfortunately work got in the way... September 22-23 Yet another weekend with some jumps. At Saturday, I joined some CRW friends to make 5-ways. Although the weather did not coorporate, we made 5 jumps (2x5way, 2x4 way and one 2way) from 3500 feet. On Sunday CaTo was in the air again, and with 3 jumps, of which the last was a blast :-) we had a great time. looks like our two-ways are getting into speed, so maybe... :-) September 15-16 After all the cold weather during the week, the weekend was perfect. On Saturday we slowly moved to teuge, and at the end of the day made 3 jumps (first time with tail pocket, thanks Kees!!) Sunday bbegan good, but ended in cheers: jump 5 gave us 9 points in 15000 feet, as if we had trained all year (wait, we did :-) August 31 : Peter's party After his marriage earlier that month, Peter and his wife decided to give a jump-in party for friends and family, nearby Teuge. Together with henny and kees, we decided to go for a four-way diamond. Due to clouds our exit altitude was 4000 feet, but we were complete within 1000 feet and Tom flew the diamond as a true pilot trough the air, towards the landing area. at 800 feet we finally broke up. It was a memorable jump August 11-19 Serious CF Spektakel No CF Spektakel in 2006, but this year the event was reborn again, starting on Wednesday, and with the help of Henny and the paracenter @Teuge, the event was used as selection camp for the upcoming CF WR attempt @ Lake Wales (November 2007). We were asked to help-out with the coordination, and especially the camera flying for the big ways, and the coaching for the smaller, non-selection attendees. As a warm-up, we started during the weekend with just some two-ways and one (successfully :-) three way (me on top of the head-of-a-diamond :-) At Tuesday the first participants arrived from Germany and Norway, and Wednesday, the bi ways could start. Chris Gay, Brian Pangburn and Christoph Balisky flew over to pilot the formations, and do the actual selection. I made some 20 jumps with camera (and photo-camera, see link) and together with Danny and Eric, Tom made 18 coach jumps with several participants that were not interested in the big ways and selection, but mainly in learning and have some Serious FUN :-) August 3-5 With a long and sunny weekend ahead of us we drove on Friday morning to Teuge. That day we managed to make 3 jumps, and had a nice summer-evening on the terras of chez-kees&trees. On Saturday, we started with three coach-jumps with Cynthia, both on a 176 (toet......) and for her a triathlon 150. And Cynthia is now also convinced that CRW is fun :-) The last two jumps of the day we were 'just the two of us' and we made 2 nice birthday-jumps. On Sunday, Kees and Gerben joined us, and in total we made 6 jumps. The first and last with only Kees, the others included Gerben also. And now I know: flying on top of a diamond is not that easy: the first attempt was just too much, the second ended in a funnel and in the loss of one shoe, and the last.... again frustration of not getting the second grip. Well, it shows that I still have something to learn July 20-21 After a good 2007-2007 meal on Friday with our best-men, we drove up to Teuge again on Saturday and made 5 jumps in 6 hours. Although hampered by strange activities from the pilot, we landed on the DZ each time, and even got some extra altitude for free :-) So extra points for cynthia :-) Sunday became a day 'for old time sake' and training for the WR in lake wales. The two of us played 'dummy' so Gerben and Kees could practice their approaches. Unfortunately due to time restrictions and the weather, we only made 2 jumps, but it was real fun!! July 19 Finally my colleagues and I could travel to Teuge for their first tandem jump. We showed-off on forehand with a low-CRW jump. And after some waiting (more people though of having a free afternoon and make some jumps :-) all 6 colleagues made a save and exciting jump! We could jump with them: one freefly and one CRW. July 14-15 a good weekend: the weather forecast predicted a full Saturday of jumping, and fo Sunday nice jump weater in the morning, and for my father good birthday weather in the afternoon. So we arrrived friday evening @Teuge and were able to use the premanifest for club-members in the early Saturday morning. It was crowdy but we managed to make 5 jumps, and had a nice evening. On sundaymorning, we could make two jumps before we moved on. July 7-8 The weekend supposed to have started on Friday afternoon with 7 tandem jumps from my colleagues, but due to autumn-kind of weather, the jumps were canceled, and we went to Teuge just for the weekend and to jump with the two of us.. Luckily the bad weather was gone on Saturday, and although winds were high, we managed to do 6 jumps. 3 of which were our first free-fly jumps (after the tunnel experience). Now we know that:
June 16-17 How things can run differently as expected: On Saturday we decided to go early to Teuge, weather forecast was not great, so maybe we could make one or two jumps. At the end, we stopped around 18:00 with 5 jumps on our record. For Sunday, the weather forecast was promised to be better, but we ended up with just one jump, and a lot of waiting and looking at clouds. But with 6 jumps in total it was a good weekend, and I finally am starting to get a grip on the top-dock stack :-) By the way: we would like to use this to give the manifest@Teuge an extra compliment: we know we are sometimes difficult CRW-customers, but you really earned your 33 points this weekend mark :-) June 9 Although the temperature was good, the weather was not that great. We only managed to make 1 jump today, luckily we decided to make that one from 12.000 feet, so we still got some reasonable air-time. When the thunderclouds came in, we decided to stop. Thunder and lightning do not match with CRW... May 30 After the holiday in england it was tome do make some jumps @Teuge again. The weather on the Wednesday afternoon was perfect, but there were hardly any jumpers: the number of pilots was in the beginning even higher than the number of (paying) jumpers. But with help from some tandems, and the center, we manged to make 4 jumps (with 4 loads at the complete afternoon :-) The jumps were great, doing unexpected three-ways and 4-ways just for fun :-) May 20 This must have been the best view we ever saw during a skydive. During a short week-holiday in England we made three jumps at the North-West Parachute Center in the town of Flookburgh (Cumbria) near the Lake District. Un-British weather with lots of sunshine, not too hot or windy, and a new airplane to jump from: an XL 750 (registration ZK-KAY), with 18 places available, going very fast to 14.000 feet (for us: 7.000 feet) But nothing could beat the view: looking over Lake Windermere, the Lake District, and Morecambe bay (we were warned to stay put if we would land in the quick-sand: 999 would be called to rescue us) We showed them a little of our CRW stuff, they gave us a very good time with nice people and good and relaxed atmosphere: Thanx!! May 17 Just half a day of jumping this long weekend, but still we managed to make three jumps as of 14:00 hours. (and 3 looooong bus-rides back to the DZ, lets hope the bus can ride the airfield soon again...) Two nice jumps with danny, who had to 'un-rust' before the rubberduck boogie :-) and one two-way jump. May 10 Tunnel-time again :-) freefly training for each 15 minutes with martijn. It was fun, we did some backflying again. now we feel ready for some real air-time :-) Queens day weekend (April 27-30) Wauw what a weekend again, and what a weather. We managed to make 17 jumps over two full and two half-days, which is pretty amazing for a weekend in April. The only problems this weekend were the wind and the pilots: winds from east-north east caused turbulence over the trees, and made landing somewhat difficult. And all pilots needed to learn again how a CReW-jumper wants to have it's exit: not to fast or to violent.... We hope we have teached all pilots now the 'trick' and we will have no more neck-pains after a day-jumping. April 22 It's already the nicest spring ever, temperatures are up, and blue skies are dominating the days :-) so it's perfect jumping weather (and so think a lot of people..) It was a busy Sunday on Teuge airport, but because of the pre-manifesting rule at the DZ, we were able to make 5 nice jumps. Hardly any wind, a new pilot that did not know were the 1 mile exit point should be (or was it because of he new and longer landingstrip?) and shorter steering lines for me finally gave us the feeling of last year back: formations went smooth, experiments were again possible and we had FUN. And with a nice visit of 4 family members, it was really a good day! Eastern: April 7-8 This weekend was a cold, but sunny international CRW-4 weekend: together with zanne and Victor we made some 11 jums in two days, and practiced flying and clean docking. Something to learn for everybody: accepting stack-docks is even after >800 CRW jumps sometimes difficult, making a short approach is also not too easy, and staying close to the formation can be a challenge. But having a great time was not that difficult (staying warm was... chilling, biting winds on 7000 feet, but overal blue skies wih some clouds...) Mar 25 And we flew the sky again: day-light saving time weekend (gerben did not know until he missed the first jump) and it was one of the first spring-day's in 2007. Although bumpy and a little chilly in the air, it felt good to fly our canopies again together. Mar 22 With special thanks to martijn: CaTo made on thursday their first tunnel-jumps@ indoor skydive roosendaal. Both of us experienced 15 minutes tunnel-freefly. After two practice runs (belly, standup, walk around, wow, this is different) we started practicing our back-flying. Martijn had a hard time catching up with us :-) but we had a great time! Thanks Martijn! By the way, ToraTora was also there, and we only could watch and envy.,... but hey, those guys can do nothing flying under CRW canopies :-) Mar 11 2007 has really started after this Sunday :-) We made our first three jumps of this year, in a clear blue sky, in an early-Spring weekend. Temperature was good (16 degrees), flying skills a little rusty, but what could be expected after 6 month of hibernation :-) We are looking forward to a year full of nice CF jumps and also learning a new discipline: yes, we are going to learn something new. So keep a look at this site, and take a guess! |
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total number of jumps 2007: CaTo CF : 155 CaTo FF : 4 Ca FS : 3 CaTo Camera : 20 Tunneltime each 30 min NW Paracenter England: Unfortunately I did not bring my cam-equipment, so no pictures from above, one to show you the airplane  FS 9 way scramble - the team (i am the one without camera, in blue to the right)  That's me in the blue holding the grip :-), at the right  picture saskia dragon2.nl |
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