No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

41

2.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

TWO WAY

Description

Outside floating exit. I climbed out first, followed by Herb. Herb did the cadence – good exit together. Still not arching so falling too slowly. Some tracking. Pulled at 4,500.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

42

3.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

TWO WAY

Description

Linked exit. Me inside, Herb outside. Exit was a bit bumpy! Got stable and unlinked. Managed to arch a bit better and by 7,000 was staying relative to Herb. Turn and tracked away at 5,500. Pulled at 4,500.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

43

4.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

SOLO

Description

Dive exit. Backflips: 2 good, third unstable but recovered quickly. Pulled at 5,000.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

44

4.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

9,000ft

SOLO

Description

Dive exit. Just enjoying the freefall. Pulled at 5,000.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

45

7.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

SOLO

Description

Dive exit. Tried to sit fly. Managed a sort of half crouch a couple of times. Tried to sit up properly and tipped right over backwards. Bit of tracking. Pulled at 4,500.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

46

14.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

TWO WAY

Description

Jumped with Marcel. Unlinked exit (dive – Marcel outside floating). Just trying to stay relative to each other. Marcel swooped below me. Maintained fairly constant seperation until cloud at 7,000. Pulled at 4,500. Landed within 5m of target.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

47

14.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

SOLO

Description

Dive exit. Got stable and tried to sit. Managed a sit for approx 5 seconds then tipped sideways. Rocovered and tried another sit – again for about 5 seconds and tipped backwayrds. Played around with turning over. Pulled at 4,500.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

48

20.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

SOLO

Description

Dive exit. Rolled forward on exit so went with it and did several forward rolls. Then managed to sit for 5 seconds and then tried going head down for about 5 seconds. Pulled at 4,500. Landed within 5m of target.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

49

20.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

16,000ft

THREE WAY

Description

Jumped with Matt and Herb. Linked exit with Matt – he was outside and I was inside. Herb outside floating. Stayed linked during exit and got stable. Was able to maintian matching fall rate with Matt. Herb docked at 12,000. Broke off at 10,000. Did a slightly head down fall to catch Herb. Pulled at 4,000. Landed within 5m of target.

 

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No.

Date

Place

Aircraft

50

21.08.2004

Rotorua

Fletcher EUD FU24D

Equipment

Altitude

Maneuver

Omega. Safire 170

12,000ft

FOUR WAY

Description

Jumped with Matt, Herb + Jae. Linked exit with Herb – me inside, Matt outside floating, Jae chased out (video). Stayed stable with Herb, Matt + Jae. Matt + Jae moved round Herb and me from 9,000 – 7,000. Broke at 5,000 tracked away (followed by Jae) and pulled at 3,500.

 

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