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As mentioned in my [intlink id="1335" type="post"]previous post[/intlink] I had my FAI paperwork done after completing the FS1 certificate. To on the safe side and prevent from the mail to BPA with the paperwork to get misplaced (as it likes to get with the Royal Mail) or get severely delayed I decided to use the [...]

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My recent visit to the motherland gave me the opportunity for yet another skydiving session, I joined my instructor and mentor Aleš Debeljak from the Paranoia skydiving school. All went well and on the third jump of the second day just as I exited the Cessna 206 I apparently managed to hook my rig on [...]

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After finally settling for DeLand being the DZ we will be jumping at we have now also have a definite place where we will be staying. Now you skydivers among you probably know what the usual level of accommodation comes during skydiving trips. This time we will live in near luxury. We will have a [...]

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As mentioned in a previous post, this is the DZ (dropzone) where we will do our skydiving in Florida in 2008. There are quite a few of us booked for the SkyDragons tunnelcamp and all will skydivers will also be doing jumps as well. Why on earth would you miss skydiving in Florida and the [...]

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Last weekend I did what I wanted to do for a long while – to actually skydive in the UK. I’ve been putting it off for a long time, lately mostly due to the weather we have been having. Last weekend the weather was OK, no flu lingering in the background and no lameness in [...]

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