Captains Call January 2019

Firstly, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year and got to relax a bit and catch up with family and friends.

Well, our National Record Event in Perris Valley is now this year and just 4 months away.

Registrations for our event as at mid January stand at 95 Australian / Permanent Australian Residents.  A fantastic result!   But we need more, so keep those registrations coming in!

The “Friends of Aussies” up to 25% slots on our event are proving very popular and we have some pretty awesome bigway skydivers very keen to come and make a record with us.

Dan has confirmed the following Aircraft / Sector Captains for our event. Their Bio links are included. The list is impressive to say the least!

• Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
• Kate Cooper-Jensen
• Doug Forth
• Larry Henderson
• Chris Farina
• Scott Latinis
• Craig Girard

Some amazingly talented people there to lead us during the Aussie Record Event. Dan may have one or two more big names to add to that list making special appearances – so watch this space.

Please note in recent safety discussions with Dan the following will be mandatory for participating in Perris:  An audible altimeter, an AAD and a hard shell helmet.   I actually don’t know anyone coming who is not already complying with all three of those requirements, but it is now a necessity none the less for our event.

Visit the Facebook Event page ‘2019 ABW Travel Plans’ to share and discuss your travel and accommodation plans with the team. First camp starts on Thursday 23/5, so many will be arriving in the days leading up. Co-ordinate transport from LA Airport to the DZ, Accommodation and all things Perris. ‘Perris 2019’ has information about travel, the DZ, Accommodation, visas required, Q&A. Any further questions you may have please refer to your State Mentor.

Since the last ASM we have held our “Day with Dan” event at Moruya 06 to 09 Dec 2018. The weather was a little un-cooperative at times but still proved to be a very popular and successful event. It gave our bigway skydivers one more opportunity to work on their skills and to jump with Dan BC.

A couple more things to get out to people – we now have confirmed our “Team Manager / Event Ground Liaison/coordination person”. This will be Graham [Dixie] Lee. He will play an important role throughout our 2 Camps and Record Event.

 

 

Secondly our “on site” APF Judge for the Record Event is Jan Nejedly. Thank you Jan! Again, a very important role and now we are starting to work on the Chief Judges and the judging team for the Record Event.

 

 

Lastly, as encouragement for people to register, will still have 4 more draws of IFLY Wind Tunnel time up for grabs.  No cost involved, if you ARE registered for Perris then your name is in the draw and the winners will be notified ASAP. This last series of draws will take place soon so don’t delay in registering directly with P3.

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Jump safe everyone and keep working on your bigway skills and preparing everything required for Perris, there is a ton of great information on our website so please visit there regularly.

 Blue Ones, Greg

Team Captain, Aussie Big Ways