How can we describe the last two days? Hot, humid, dusty, waiting, waiting, waiting … Jumping has started everyday at 2pm for the 4 way events and it feels as though we spend the whole time waiting for something to happen. The meet is progressing slowly with 2 rounds of competition being completed each day. Voodoo had a tough round [read more]
The competition has started! Since the last email Voodoo continued doing training jumps until the Official training day on Saturday. We took Saturday as a rest day and only did the one official training jump. There were some problems with the dubbing station and Omniskore (judging programme) so the training jumps were not judged before the competition started. The weather has [read more]
Report from Vana at the 19th FAI World Formation Skydiving Championships :Australia, Spain, France, Croatia, Germany, France, Russia …. a list of exotic and interesting locations. This is also the list of hosting countries to the Skydiving World Championships since 1999 which members of Voodoo 4 have attended. Although many of these places would feature in luxury holiday brochures, the [read more]
From: Jenni Osrin Sent: 09 July 2010 12:04 PM To: jsc-skydivers Subject: [jsc-skydivers] News from the Treasurer Hi All, We had our first committee meeting last night. There are a few changes and hopefully some improvements to current procedures. First of all, I’d like to apologise to anyone that’s been inconvenienced during the last few [read more]
Hi all.PLEASE make sure you don’t get caught unawares at our training camp to be held from the 22nd of April. It falls exactly in the same period as the security test run for the FIFA Soccer World Cup.As we are well within 50NM from a stadium (Soccer City), all skydivers need to obtain a security screening code to skydive [read more]
Hi Skydivers, Further to my previous mails on the subject, the Jumpmaster course at JSC will be held on Friday 4 June, Saturday 5 June and Sunday 6 June at JSC. The Friday session will start at 14h00 and will go through to late evening. There has been interest from non JSC members and all jumpers who qualify are welcome. Please note [read more]
To all PASA members What is this?In a nutshell, the SAAF has been tasked with securing South Africa’s air space for the duration of the FIFA Soccer World Cup. A number of measures have been adopted to ensure this security. The measure affecting parachutists is the implementation of restricted airspace for 50NM around all of the stadiums where matches will be [read more]
Hi there!Some of you may have heard by now that we are going to run a long skydiving weekend at JSC from the 22nd of April to the 25th of April.The Pac will be flying and will only leave for Nylstroom on Sunday afternoon, the 25th of April. As there will only be one official training day on the 26th [read more]
To all PASA membersYou are reminded that PASA annual membership renewal is due on 1 April 2010. The membership renewal form is attached.If you are renewing your membership only, and not applying for a new licence or rating nor renewing a rating, you need only complete and return page 1 of the form.New licence / rating applications and rating renewals [read more]
Hi JSC members, It is amazing how many incidents could have been prevented with the proper gear checks. This weekend we had another one, involving one of our members who was jumping at Skydive Cape Town. He had a pilot chute in tow and the way the bridle was routed, there was no way it would have pulled the bag out of [read more]
